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Copyright of Anatolian Journal of Psychiatry / Anadolu Psikiyatri Dergisi is the property of Anatolian Journal of Psychiatry and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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Objective: In this study we aimed to investigate the properties and strong and weak parts of the psychodrama group therapy techniques in adolescents with social anxiety disorder and tried to create a psychodrama group therapy model for adolescents. Methods: The group consists of adolescents aged 16-18 years old who were diagnosed with social anxiety disorder in the child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinic of a research hospital for psychiatric and neurologic disorders in İstanbul and who were volunteer to join the group. The adolescents with a psychotic disorder, autism spectrum disorder or mental retardation were not included in the study. The group was started when the number of volunteer adolescents have reached ten and group meetings were planned as once a week lasting 1.5 or 2 hours. Results: In this group therapy programme using psychodrama techniques, totally 14 sessions were done. The total time of sessions have changed between 70 and 150 minutes according to the needs of the group and the related topic. Minimum 2 group members and maximum 8 group members attended to the group sessions. We observed in the meetings with low attendance, co-therapists' acting and taking roles as group members maintained the group permanency and increased the assertiveness of the inhibited group members. Also we observed that spontaneity and creativity increased if the co-therapists joined the group games. Using symbolic items like toys facilitated the expression of emotions in this group for the adolescents. Discussion: While using psychodrama with adolescents with social anxiety disorder in order to minimize the problems of low attendance and warrant the group permanency it is useful to conduct the group with at least two co-therapists and to begin with more than ten or twelve group members at the beginning. Groups should be conducted weekly and interest areas of adolescents should be taken into account while preparing group games and symbolic items should be used often. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Anatolian Journal of Psychiatry / Anadolu Psikiyatri Dergisi is the property of Anatolian Journal of Psychiatry and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder of childhood. Cognitive and behavioral changes in patients with epilepsy may be associated with psychiatric disorders and even these complaints may purely be evaluated as a psychiatric disorder. In cases without clinical seizure epilepsy may be diagnosed just with psychiatric symptoms. Psychiatric symptoms in childhood epilepsy are rarely reported in the literature. Epileptic psychosis involves a group of disorder associated with epileptic seizures. Interictal psychosis, postictal psychosis and alternative psychosis are included in this group. Ictal psychosis which is closely related to the activation of seizures may be prevented by seizure control and all forms of epileptic psychosis require a sophisticated intervention. We did not come across any case report other than a child with ictal psychosis and an adolescent with interictal psychosis in our local literature. By this report, based on a case without an epileptic seizure in which diagnosis of epilepsy is made by psychiatric symptoms, we aimed to present the clinical aspects of psychosis and emphasize the importance of combining detailed anamnesis, physical and neurological examination with appropriate investigations through the diagnostic course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Population data on clinical and demographic characteristics of children who are sexually abused in Turkey is very limited. This paper aims to investigate the demographic and abusement characteristics of sexually abused children and adolescents who were referred for forensic examination to our child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinic. Methods: All of the 135 children and adolescents who were sexually abused and examined on request by the legal offices for the last year at the Bakırköy Mental Health Hospital, child and adolescent psychiatry department were included in the study. All written material including court files were analyzed retrospectively. Demographic (age, gender) and abusement characteristics of victims (relation of victim and perpetrator, type and duration of abusement) were evaluated. Results: The girls experienced more sexual abusement than boys (female 80.7%, male 19.3%). In 80.0%, the victim knew the suspected perpetrator well or he was a family member. Adolescents were more often abused more than once compared to the younger children. The sexual abuse events were mostly fondling (24.4%) and penetration of the vagina (27.4%). The mostly used method was using force by perpetrators (51.1%), or deceiving (29.6%) during sexual abuse. Conclusion: Results suggest that girls experienced more sexual abuse than boys; adolescents were more often abused more than once compared to the younger children. It is important to educate all children and adolescents about sexual abusement and to make special centers for them to report the abusement and to get psychiatric support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]