Killing One's Own Baby: A Psychodynamic Overview with Clinical Approach to Filicide Cases.

Objective: This review article discusses the multi-dimensional and complex pattern of filicide from a psychodynamic perspective with reference to the recent publications. Creating awareness to filicide among professionals will help to the correct assessment of the cases, recognition of and intervention on filicide before the act, and the development of preventive mechanisms.

Method: Published articles between January 1960 and March 2020 were searched using the keywords 'filicide, infanticide, neonaticide, mother/ parent/ maternal/ paternal, psychodynamics' in the Google Scholar, EBSCHO-HOST, Science-Direct, PubMed and Web of Science databases.

Killing One's Own Baby: A Psychodynamic Overview with Clinical Approach to Filicide Cases.

Objective: This review article discusses the multi-dimensional and complex pattern of filicide from a psychodynamic perspective with reference to the recent publications. Creating awareness to filicide among professionals will help to the correct assessment of the cases, recognition of and intervention on filicide before the act, and the development of preventive mechanisms.

Method: Published articles between January 1960 and March 2020 were searched using the keywords 'filicide, infanticide, neonaticide, mother/ parent/ maternal/ paternal, psychodynamics' in the Google Scholar, EBSCHO-HOST, Science-Direct, PubMed and Web of Science databases.

Cognitive and behavioral impairment in mild hyperphenylalaninemia.

Evinç SG, Pektaş E, Foto-Özdemir D, Yıldız Y, Karaboncuk Y, Bilginer-Gürbüz B, Dursun A, Tokatlı A, Coskun T, Öktem F, Sivri HS. Cognitive and behavioral impairment in mild hyperphenylalaninemia. Turk J Pediatr 2018; 60: 617-624.

Child maltreatment and associated factors among children with ADHD: a comparative study.

This study aimed to compare the mothers of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the mothers of children with no psychiatric diagnosis with respect to abusive discipline attitudes. One hundred children with ADHD, 25 children with no psychiatric diagnosis, and their mothers answered the questionnaires and open-ended standard questions about the type and frequency of parental abusive discipline. Conners scores of the children were associated with characteristics of the children, maternal characteristics, and maternal use of verbal discipline.

[A case of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy in the context of folie a famille].

The occurrence of similar psychotic symptoms in two or more people is called shared paranoid disorder. In this disease, the person who exhibits psychotic symptoms first is the "primary patient". The symptoms are contracted by the other people through persuasion.

Comorbidity and continuity of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from childhood to adolescence in Turkey.

The aim of this study was to examine clinical outcomes, psychiatric comorbidity and neuropsychological characteristics in Turkish adolescents with an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis in childhood. A total of 45 children with ADHD diagnosis and 28 children with a psychiatric diagnosis other than ADHD in a 1-year cohort of 7-10-year-olds were reevaluated 6 years later using Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children Present and Lifetime version and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised and Stroop Test TBAG version. This study shows that the clinical outcomes and the comorbidity patterns for ADHD from childhood to adolescence in Turkey are similar to reported rates in the Western countries.

The analysis of child abuse and neglect cases assessed by a multidisciplinary study group between 2005-2008.

This study aimed to evaluate the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of child abuse and neglect (CAN) cases. Subjects were 102 cases that were clinically assessed by the multidisciplinary hospital team. Early and late childhood cases (according to the age at first abuse) were compared by means of characteristics of abuse.

[WISC-R profiles of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a comparative study].

Objective: In clinical practice the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised Form (WISC-R) is a frequently used instrument for the identification of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). In order to observe the discriminative power of WISC-R profiles for ADHD, this study aimed to compare WISC-R performance of 3 groups (children with ADHD, children with different psychiatric diagnoses, children with no psychiatric diagnosis).

Method: Participants ranged in age from 6 to 16 years.