It is then important to learn what should be done following initial treatment. All subjects initially receive CBT alone. Subjects are then randomized in one of two postacute studies, depending on response status. These studies address two questions. This grant studies the prevalence of psychiatric diagnosis among mothers who bring children for mental health treatment, examines the relationship between child and maternal illness, and identifies ecologic factors in the lives of mothers that affect their own and their child's illness and their decisions to obtain treatment.
Parental psychopathology is a relatively neglected risk factor in child psychiatry.
This proposal represents a rare collaboration between senior social work and psychiatric faculty with combined expertise in clinical treatment research, family studies, and caregiver burden. Panic-Agoraphobia Spectrum Pfizer Inc. M. Katherine Shear, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry Ellen Frank, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology Spectrum disorders, defined as associated features of DSM Axis I disorders, provide a more comprehensive and detailed way of characterizing diagnostic groups than do the prototypic diagnostic criteria. The present study will evaluate psychometric properties of this instrument and document the rate of endorsement in different groups of subjects. This project also includes a focus on separation anxiety. Lithium, the most effective treatment for this condition, has shown in vitro effects in key steps of the intracellular signal transduction pathways.