PSYCHIATRIC ASSESSMENT OF 5-10 YEAR OLD CHILDREN AT RISK FOR AFFECTIVE DISORDER

本项目涉及的后代数据和随访数据来自 对5至10岁儿童的精神病学访谈 家庭 招募时，一名儿童在5至8岁之间 一名儿童年龄在2至3岁之间。 在 在最初的评估中，年龄较大的儿童接受了CAS（儿童 评估时间表），并根据DSM-III标准进行诊断。 三年后，年龄较小的儿童，现在5-8岁， 年龄较大的儿童，现在7-10岁，都进行了评估与CAS 两组儿童均采用DSM-III进行诊断 的搜索. 因此，本项目提供了有关儿童精神病的数据， 作为父母精神病理学功能的状态，以及数据 儿童精神状况的短期一致性， 这些年龄。 母亲患有情感障碍的孩子中， 诊断。 这一趋势对年龄较小的儿童具有重要意义， 第二次评估，但未达到老年人的显著性 孩子 父母有严重情感障碍的孩子 在两次评估中都得到了诊断， 父母没有精神病史的孩子。 精神疾病儿童与健康儿童的纵向评价 父母将使我们能够确定年龄的外观， 情感障碍是常见的，但不能预测持续的 精神病理学，希望，在发展的时候， 情感障碍是持续精神病理学的预兆

This project concerns the offspring data and follow-up data derived from psychiatric interviews of the five to ten year old children of the families. At time of recruitment one child was between five and eight years of age, and one child was between two and three years of age. At initial assessment, the older child was administered the CAS (Child Assessment Schedule), and diagnosed according to the DSM-III criteria. Three years later, the younger children, now 5-8 years of age, and the older children, now 7-10 years of age, were both assessed with the CAS instrument and both groups of children were diagnosed using the DSM-III criteria. Thus, this project provides data concerning child psychiatric status as a function of parental psychopathology, as well as data concerning short term consistency of psychiatric status in children of these ages. More of the children whose mothers had affective disorder received DSM-III diagnoses. This trend reached significance for the younger children at the second time of assessment, but did not reach significance for the older children. Also more of the children whose parents have major affective disorder received diagnoses at both times of assessment, than did the children whose parents have no history of psychiatric disorder. Longitudinal assessment of the children of affectively ill and healthy parents will enable us to identify ages at which the appearance of affective disturbance is common, but not predictive of continued psychopathology, and hopefully, points in development when the appearance of affective disturbance is predictive of continued psychopathology.