ABSTRACT
Psychosomatic medicine explores the psychological, behavioral, and social elements that influence people's health and quality of life. This discipline develops skills and knowledge used in the evalua tion and management of psychosocial elements interfering in the process of illness and healing. The Child and Adolescent Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (CACLP) is a discipline that has been empi rically installed in order to favor adherence to treatments and recovery of children and teenagers du ring the process of illness. There is a need for developing this discipline in Chile, but so far there are limited national and international records and literature dedicated to it. The objective of this article is to update the concepts of structure and describe how a CACLP unit in a high complexity teaching hospital works in general, discussing the clinical challenges involved in these issues.
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Adolescent Psychiatry/organization & administration , Child Psychiatry/organization & administration , Hospitals, University/organization & administration , Mental Disorders/diagnosis , Mental Disorders/therapy , Psychosomatic Medicine/organization & administration , Referral and Consultation/organization & administration , Adolescent , Adolescent Psychiatry/methods , Child , Child Psychiatry/methods , Child, Preschool , Chile , Female , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Male , Psychosomatic Medicine/methodsABSTRACT
La encopresis es un problema común en la infancia que se presenta en escenarios pediátricos, psiquiátricos y psicológicos y tiene un impacto significativo en el funcionamiento social y emocional del niño y en su familia.
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Humans , Child , Encopresis/diagnosis , Encopresis/psychology , Encopresis/therapy , Diagnosis, Differential , Encopresis/epidemiology , Encopresis/etiology , Medical History Taking , Physical Examination , PrognosisABSTRACT
La comprensión del delirium es fundamental en el campo de la psiquiatría infanto-juvenil, pero también en otras especialidades que tratan niños. Estos comienzan bruscamente con alteración de la conciencia, de la memoria, del lenguaje, ideas delirantes durante el curso de una enfermedad, por el uso de sustancias o en el postoperatorio. Es importante la familiarización con los síntomas y tratamiento del delirium en niños y adolescentes así como reconocer el riesgo que conlleva.
