Delinquency in incarcerated male adolescents is associated with single parenthood, exposure to more violence at home and in the community, and poorer self-image.

Aim: To assess the relationships between delinquency and demographic and family variables, academic performance, war stressors, home/community, school, and media violence exposure, self-image, and psychopathology.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included 100 delinquent, incarcerated male adolescents and 100 matched schoolchildren from Croatia. It lasted from January 2008 to June 2009, and used socio-demographic questionnaire, questionnaire on children's stressful and traumatic war experiences, exposure to violence scale, the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire, and Youth Self-Report Questionnaire.

Dreams of deceased children and countertransference in the group psychotherapy of bereaved mothers: clinical illustration.

This article presents, in the form of a clinical illustration, a therapeutic group of bereaved mothers with special reference to their dreams about their deceased children. The article presents descriptions of the emotions of these mothers and countertransference feelings, a topic that, to our knowledge, has not been frequently studied. The group was small, analytically oriented, slow-open, comprised of women bereaved by the death of a child, and conducted by a female therapist.

The loss of criteria for mental retardation and regression of symptoms of childhood autism during a five-year follow-up--a case report.

It is usually held that most individuals with childhood autism have poor prognosis. According to our knowledge, a favorable outcome of a child with childhood autism is quite rare and inspires a number of controversies. A 4-year-old boy was diagnosed with childhood autism and mild mental retardation.

Longitudinal studies of IQ stability in children with childhood autism - literature survey.

Background: In this paper we present a survey of the literature dealing with IQ stability in children with childhood autism (CA) over the last ten years. Nowadays there is no clear evidence on this topic.

Subjects And Methods: We used the online "PubMed" database.

[Delusional disorder of the paranoid type and unruptured intracerebral aneurysm--is there an association?].

Introduction: Contrary to ruptured intracerebral aneurysm, according to our knowledge, not many papers have been published dealing with the relation of psychic/neuropsychological symptoms and unruptured intracerebral aneurysm (UIA). As to our knowledge, there is no published paper relating delusional disorder, paranoid type (DD-PT) and UIA, which can have important clinical implication.

Aim, Method And Results: We describe a case of a woman who had DD-PT and UIA.

Self-image and refugee status in adolescents from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

The first aim is focused in refugees comparing them with a comparison group in clinical characteristics. In addition, the authors compared scores on the self-image (S-I) scale of refugees and comparison subjects, after they had stratified them into four groups by gender and age. Subjects were 133 refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina and comparison subjects were from Zagreb, Croatia (n = 189).