[Clinical memory traces on Professor Petho].

No abstract available.

[The phenomenological psychopathology of prodromal schizophrenia].

No abstract available.

[Problems of aggressive behaviour and its measurement in various age levels. Introduction of two questionnaires].

Authors give a detailed overview on aspects of aggressive behaviour in childhood and adolescence especially on the basis of the literature of the last two decades, then. the measurement opportunities of aggression is discussed. The Children's Aggression Scale- parent version (Halperin et al 2002) rated by parents is presented and Hungarian validity data are published.

Behaviour profile of Hungarian adolescent outpatients with a dual diagnosis.

The behaviour dimensions of 244 Hungarian adolescent psychiatric outpatients with a dual diagnosis (intellectual disability and psychiatric diagnosis) were examined by means of the adapted version of the Behaviour Problem Inventory (BPI, Rojahn, Matson, Lott, Esbensen, & Smalls, 2001). Four IQ subgroups were created: borderline, mild, moderate and profound ID subsamples. Significantly higher means were found in the self-injury/stereotyped behaviour/summarized scale categories both in the frequency and severity of symptoms in the more disabled groups against the samples having milder IQ impairment.

Are there temperament differences between major depression and dysthymic disorder in adolescent clinical outpatients?

Aims: The aim of the study was to explore possible differences in temperament and character dimensions between 2 monodiagnostic adolescent groups of depression, namely, one with a present episode of major depression and subjects with the other being their dysthymic peers.

Sample: From a multisite Western Hungarian sample of consecutively referred 14- to 18-year-old new psychiatric adolescent outpatients, 2 groups were compared: group I, n = 56 (9 males, 47 females), with major depressive disorder (MDD) and group II, n = 27 (6 males, 21 females), with a diagnosis of dysthymic disorder (DD). All other comorbid diagnoses including bipolar and double depression (MDD + DD) cases were excluded.

A study of behaviour profiles among intellectually disabled people in residential care in Hungary.

The authors investigated the behavioural dimensions of 269 intellectually disabled (ID) people in residential care in specialized institutions in Tolna county (South-West Hungary) with the aim of screening the frequency and severity of the relevant behavioural symptoms associated with intellectual disability and depending on the level of intellectual impairment. Only 120 residents had an International Classification of Disease (ICD) diagnosis of "mental retardation (MR)" and a valid IQ grading either by means of the Hungarian standard version of the HAWIK or by the coloured Raven test. 4 IQ groups were created: borderline (B), mild (MID), moderate (MOD) and profound (PID) intellectual disability subgroups.

[A study of behaviour profile and psychiatric symptom dimensions among intellectually disabled people in residential care].

Aims: Authors investigated the psychiatric symptoms and behaviour dimensions of people in residential care of institutions in Tolna county (South-West Hungary, Trans-Danubian region) aimed at screening the frequency of the relevant affective and behavioural symptoms associated with intellectual disability and their dependency on the level of intellectual impairment.

Methods: On the basis of HAWIK test, Hungarian standard version, 4 groups were created: subnormal, mild, moderate and profound MR subgroups. The Hungarian standard of Derogatis' Symptom Distress Checklist (SCL-90) and the validated Behaviour Problem Profile (BPI by Rojahn et al) were used.

A study of Hungarian adolescent outpatients suffering from self-injurious behaviour.

In this pilot study (Study A), the authors administered the Hungarian standard version of Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the translated version of the Ottawa Self Injury Inventory (OSI) to students of 3 educational facilities in a county town. Fourteen to eighteen year old pupils were tested in order to measure the key symptoms of depression and the frequency and characteristics of self-injurious behaviour among this sample of the high school population. Twentysix youngsters were found to have had any form of self-injurious actions in their life-time.

["Risk factors for childhood depression"--research design, implementation, proceedings: history of 13 years: experience in grant preparation, writing, organization in connection with an American NIMH Grant].

The authors summarize their experiences in research organization accumulated during 13 years. At first they outline preliminary studies which are prerequisites of high prestige international grants. Then they describe the huge administrative apparatus dedicated - besides skilled professionals - for the construction and organization of the research, the management, continuous checking and evaluation of data in such a multisite study.

[A comparison of dysfunctional attitudes and coping strategies in Hungarian adolescents suffering from certain child psychiatric disorders].

Introduction: The evaluation of dysfunctional attitudes and coping mechanisms to identify specific characteristics of certain psychiatric diseases is an important research objective also in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry.

Method: Authors compared dysfunctional attitudes and coping strategies of various monodiagnostic groups recruited from a sample of 158 adolescent outpatients (54 males, mean age 16.0 SD 1.

[Symptom specificity of adolescents with self-injurious behavior].

As an introductory part of the paper, authors give a short overview of existing results in the literature related to self-injurious behaviour and adolescents' deliberate self-harm. In their own random sample study, authors organized a self-report screen (provincial town, 3 educational facilities, 470 pupils aged between 14 and 18 years) by means of the translated version of Ottawa Self Injury Inventory (OSI) used widely in community-based studies in Canada. The Beck Depression Inventory was introduced to measure the key symptoms of depression among youngsters.