Dynamic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Children and Adolescent

Dear Colleagues,

Mental health disorders in children are generally defined as delays or disruptions in developing age-appropriate thinking, behaviors, social skills or emotion regulation. These problems are distressing for children and disrupt their ability to function well at home, in school or in other social situations.

Most mental disorders in children inducing symptoms impairing their relations to themselves or to others, such as neurodevelopmental disorders, anxiety disorders, major depressive disorder and other affective or dissociative disorders can be addressed by various forms of psychotherapy, including psychodynamic therapy, at least as adjunct treatment. There is evidence that psychotherapy is helpful for children with posttraumatic stress disorders and obsessive compulsive disorders, among others, and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) has been shown to help adolescents with depression. The value of family and group therapy for eating disorders in children and borderline personality disorders in adolescents continues to be widely accepted, and psychotherapy has evidence-based studies supporting its efficacy in the treatment of dysthymia, anxiety, panic disorders, and, in some cases, poorly controlled diabetes in adolescents.

More broadly, it is largely considered that all forms of psychotherapy provide children with at least some form of “corrective emotional experience” with the goal of alleviating a child’s problems that interfere in their psychological wellbeing. Therefore, we set up this Special Issue with the aim of collecting papers on mental disorders in children and the intervention of psychotherapy which could be helpful for them.

Prof. Dr. Michel Botbol
Guest Editor

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• mental disorders in children and adolescents
• psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents
• anxiety
• depression
• neurodevelopmental disorders
• child and adolescent psychotherapies
• psychodynamic therapy in children and adolescents
• interpersonal psychotherapy
• family therapy