Psychological therapies for children and adolescents exposed to trauma.

Background: Children and adolescents who have experienced trauma are at high risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other negative emotional, behavioural and mental health outcomes, all of which are associated with high personal and health costs. A wide range of psychological treatments are used to prevent negative outcomes associated with trauma in children and adolescents.

Objectives: To assess the effects of psychological therapies in preventing PTSD and associated negative emotional, behavioural and mental health outcomes in children and adolescents who have undergone a traumatic event.

Optimisation of prescription in patients with long-term treatment-resistant schizophrenia.

Objective: The aim of this clinical review was to investigate the effectiveness and safety of the practice of antipsychotic poly-pharmacy (AP) in the long-term management of hospitalised patients with insufficient response to antipsychotic monotherapy.

Method: The databases Medline, PsycINFO, Embase and Scopus were searched. Studies were required to include inpatients with long-term, treatment-resistant schizophrenia on maintenance AP.

Acute anterior compartment syndrome associated with psychogenic polydipsia.

Objective: The aim of this paper is to describe the association of psychogenic polydipsia with anterior compartment syndrome.

Method: Case report.

Results: A 31-year-old man with glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency had a history of paranoid schizophrenia from age 16 complicated by the use of drugs.