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Task and Handling of a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Dealing with development and conduct or psychiatric disorders there are many possible causes to be considered.

Somatic illnesses, neurological disorders, traumatic expiriences, social or family related problems can possibly effect child development and cause many different symptoms.

A child psychiatrist knows about all these possibilities and will help to understand the cause of problems (multidimensional diagnostics).

Following this diagnostic phase, the second task will be the development of a special treatment for each child and its family, which patient and family then have to approve.

For example we are dealing with following problems:

• Attention deficit disorders, delays in child development, learning or conduct problems at school or in family or peer groups
  

• Motoric, sensomotoric, logopaedic problems or enuresis / encopresis (defecating)

• Emotional disorders, possibly connected with difficulties in brain function
  

• Psychosomatic problems and psychoreactive sufferings as well as secondary psychologically reactions when suffering from chronic diseases
  

• Autism, mutism, psychosis, neurosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder
  

• Epilepsy, neurologic development disorders, tic disorders
  

• Conduct disorders or problems in sexual development or behaviour
  

• Traumatic reactions following child abuse or maltreatment

• Addiction disorders

• Help for children with parents, who suffer from psychic or chronic disorders

• Help in cases of family arguments or following break up of families including ongoing law matters, or help in cases of children that have been taken out of there homes including expert statement