<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Parenting among those who use non-illicit and more common drugs such as cigarettes remains an understudied area for investigation. Secondary data analyses were performed in 2015 on a prospective study with parent and twin data available on n=3,009 individual members of female twin pairs born between July 1975 and June 1985 identified from Missouri-state birth records. Maternal smoking when the twins were 3+ years of age remained a significant predictor of offspring report of childhood sexual abuse (OR, 1.40; 95% CI, 1.02-1.92) after controlling for key covariates. Given limited public health resources, mothers who smoke during child’s preschool years may be targeted for tailored parenting intervention.</p></abstract>

Smoking as an early risk factor for problematic parenting practices

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-007_s_001"><h3>Background</h3><p>The Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology – Short Form for Adolescents (DAPP-SF-A) is an age-adapted version of the DAPP Basic Questionnaire (DAPP-BQ). The psychometric properties of this questionnaire were established by Tromp and Koot. However, norming data are currently available exclusively for Dutch adolescents.</p></sec><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-007_s_002"><h3>Objective</h3><p>The main aim of this study was to provide community-based norming data for the DAPP-SF-A in Flemish adolescents and separately for boys and girls. The second aim was to compare the Flemish norms with the Dutch norms.</p></sec><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-007_s_003"><h3>Method</h3><p>The sample consisted of 425 adolescents (52% girls), aged 16 to 21 years (mean, 18.6; SD, 1.16), from the general Flemish population. In 2012, all respondents completed the DAPP-SF-A and the Youth Self-Report as a part of the longitudinal Flemish Study on Parenting, Personality, and Development.</p></sec><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-007_s_004"><h3>Results:</h3><p>Internal consistency reliabilities of the lower-order dimensions were acceptable to good (<italic>a</italic> ranged from 0.71 to 0.87, median=0.85, mean item-rest correlations ranged from 0.44 to 0.67). The lower-order dimensions showed distinctive mean patterns for boys and girls, with higher scores for girls on Affective Instability and Insecure Attachment [effect sizes (<italic>d</italic>) were both −0.35] and higher scores for boys on all lower-order dimensions of Dissocial Behavior, Inhibitedness, and three lower-order dimensions of Emotional Dysregulation (<italic>d</italic> ranged from 0.21 to 0.79). The comparison of the Flemish scores with the Dutch scores showed substantial inter-cultural differences (<italic>d</italic> ranged from 0.13 to −1.78).</p></sec><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-007_s_005"><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The DAPP-SF-A shows satisfactory reliability in a Flemish community-based sample of adolescents. Furthermore, given the differences between boys and girls, the use of gender-based norms seems appropriate. Finally, substantial differences with the Dutch general population norms warrant the use of separate norms in Flemish adolescents.</p></sec></abstract>

The Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology – Short Form for Adolescents (DAPP-SF-A): normative data for Flemish adolescents aged 16 to 21 years

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-008_s_001"><h3>Background</h3><p>Recent continental-phenomenological psychiatry emphasizes pragmatics or <italic>social and contextual inappropriateness</italic> as a core disorder of schizophrenia, which is potentially relevant to early identification and treatment.</p></sec><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-008_s_002"><h3>Objective</h3><p>However, there are hardly any studies that examine the <italic>background population’s</italic> sensitivity to inappropriateness in schizophrenia, even if “common” people, from a pragmatic perspective, are likely to be highly sensitive to cultural-conventional norms, including (in)appropriateness.</p></sec><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-008_s_003"><h3>Method</h3><p>One empirical evaluation of contextual (in)appropriateness in 10 narratives from first-episode schizophrenia patients and healthy controls, respectively, found that when a phenomenologically informed Danish population (n=157 high-school students; mean age, 18.5) was “blinded” to the control–patient status – that is, “anonymous” narratives of the wordless picture story <italic>Frog, Where Are You?</italic> – they consequently evaluated <italic>patient</italic> narratives as more <italic>inappropriate</italic> than appropriate and <italic>control</italic> narratives as more <italic>appropriate</italic> than inappropriate (significant with 0.007). Aiming to explore a potential pattern recognition, distinguishing patient from control narratives, the present study systematizes and discusses salient explanations from <italic>lay “experts”</italic> who almost consequently (80% to 100%) evaluated patient narratives as inappropriate and control narratives as appropriate (n=63 of 157).</p></sec><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-008_s_004"><h3>Results</h3><p>Explanations of inappropriateness concerned <italic>affective</italic> aspects (about how the patient <italic>felt</italic> or how the evaluators <italic>felt</italic> reading the narrative), <italic>formal</italic> aspects (about pauses, fluency, and brevity), and aspects about <italic>sense making</italic> (from lack of understanding to nonsense and strangeness).The background population may be sensitive to affective and formal inappropriateness, but only lay experts emphasize the lack of sense in the patients’ narratives.</p></sec><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-008_s_005"><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Further studies might benefit from investigating whether early referrals from family, friends, or schoolteachers of their own accord thematize such inappropriateness aspects, and whether questionnaires targeting inappropriateness could be developed and used in the early identification of young people at risk.</p></sec></abstract>

Exploring a lay Gestalt of schizophrenia? A Danish background population’s explanations on why and how first-episode schizophrenia patients’ narratives were intuitively sensed as contextually inappropriate

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-009_s_001"><h3>Background</h3><p>The use of second-generation antipsychotic (SGA) medication among child and adolescent psychiatric patients has increased worldwide in recent years. The increase appears to have been more extensive in the USA than in European countries, but the tendency is similar. However, after a peak the use seems to have declined in the USA. Simultaneously with the increasing numbers, the duration of SGA use has lengthened, indications have broadened, and off-label use has increased. Despite existing follow-up recommendations and evidence for the metabolic adverse effects of SGAs in children, research evidence has not translated into clinical practice.</p></sec><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-009_s_002"><h3>Objective</h3><p>The aim of this study was to assess the clinical use and follow-up practices of SGA medication among child psychiatric patients of one university hospital in Finland.</p></sec><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-009_s_003"><h3>Method</h3><p>This retrospective patient report-based study was conducted at the Child Psychiatric Clinic of Tampere University Hospital, Finland. The study sample consisted of 133 patients who were younger than 13 years when initiating SGA treatment and had an ongoing SGA medication during the study period. The study sample was divided into two groups according to diagnosis to examine whether there were differences between patients with an autistic or a developmental disorder (F83-84) and patients with other psychiatric diagnoses.</p></sec><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-009_s_004"><h3>Results:</h3><p>This study showed that SGA use in children younger than 13 years was mainly off-label. Irrespective of diagnosis, the most common indication was aggression. Especially children with psychiatric diagnoses other than developmental disorders had multiple socio-demographic risk factors and adverse life experiences in their background. The follow-up practices were diverse and partly irregular.</p></sec><sec id="j_sjcapp-2017-009_s_005"><h3>Conclusions:</h3><p>A need for systematic SGA monitoring practices and dialogue between the medical specialities treating children and their families is evident.</p></sec></abstract>

Clinical use of second-generation antipsychotics in children

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