title: Research into hallucinations and psychotic-like symptoms in children: implications for child psychiatric practice.
abstract: There is a growing research interest in childhood hallucinations as predictors of psychotic states. This work appears to have limited direct relevance for clinical child psychiatric practice, but it highlights the continuing relevance of research into precursors of psychotic states and into the determinants of clinically relevant hallucinations in children.
authors.affiliation: M. Elena Garralda, MD, MPhil, DPM, FRCPsych, FRCPCH, Imperial College London, Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary's Campus, Academic Unit of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK. Email: e.garralda@imperial.ac.uk.
authors.forename: M Elena
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Garralda
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012307:Risk Factors