title: Child psychiatry.
abstract: This paper first summarizes the main findings of clinical studies conducted over the past two and a half decades on psychopathology (i.e., psychiatric diagnoses, behavior and emotional problems) in children with new onset and chronic epilepsy both with and without intellectual disability who are treated medically and surgically. Although impaired social relationships are core features of the psychiatric disorders found in pediatric epilepsy, few studies have examined social competence (i.e., social behavior, social adjustment, and social cognition) in these children. There also is a dearth of treatment studies on the frequent psychiatric comorbidities of pediatric epilepsy, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety disorders, and depression. Drs. Hamiwka and Jones then describe their current and planned studies on social competence and cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders, respectively, in these children and how they might mitigate the poor long-term psychiatric and social outcome of pediatric epilepsy.
authors: Division of Child Neurology, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors: Lorie
authors: L
authors: Hamiwka
authors: Jana E
authors: JE
authors: Jones
authors: Jay
authors: J
authors: Salpekar
authors: Rochelle
authors: R
authors: Caplan
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D012919:Social Behavior