[WISC-IV performances of young male subjects with AD(H)D, the benefits of applying cognitive profile analysis to diagnostics].

Objective: Studies suggest that children and adolescents suffering from AD(H)D show a specific WISC-IV profile in comparison to subjects of the same age group without any mental disorder. The present study compares the cognitive profiles of male subjects with AD(H)D to those of a clinical control group. The benefits of applying an ADHD specific cognitive profile analysis to differential diagnostics are analyzed.

[Without fists--violence prevention in primary school].

Faustlos is a violence prevention program for primary school and preschool children for the promotion of social and emotional competences. The curriculum focuses on the promotion of empathy, impulse control and anger management. The program was evaluated over a period of three years in 13 first and second grade classes.

A special role of negative emotion in children and adolescents with schizophrenia and other psychoses.

Emotional impairments are apparent at an early stage in schizophrenia. While emotion processing has been studied intensively in adult patients, investigations focusing on children and adolescents with psychoses are rare. Emotion probes for mood induction and emotion discrimination that have been standardized in healthy subjects and applied to adult schizophrenia patients were evaluated in young patients (11-20 years).

[Cooperation between office-based medical practices and hospitals in the treatment of schizophrenia in children and adolescents].

Starting from needs assessment and actual situation of child and adolescent psychiatric care the following article describes priorities, gateways, interfaces and problems related to the co-operation of parents, children and adolescents with office- and hospital-based physicians and institutions in the early diagnosis, hospital admission, in-patient treatment and outpatient follow-up of children and adolescents with psychotic disorders. Data from a sample of 100 children and adolescents with psychotic disorders, who have been treated in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Rheinische Kliniken Duesseldorf, are provided to illustrate the possibility of and need for co-operation between office-based medical practices and hospitals. Finally co-operative activities will be specified between: 1.