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A Case Report on Korean Medicine Psychotherapy in an Adolescent Patient with Major Depressive Disorder Accompanied by Suicidal Ideation and Behavior (자살생각과 자살행동을 동반한 청소년 주요우울장애 환자의 한의정신요법 활용 1례 보고)

  • Esther Jang;Soomin Jo;Kyeong-Ok Kim
    • Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.453-461
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    • 2023
  • Objectives: Major depressive disorder is a severe disease that is associated with suicidal ideation and behavior. In this case, Korean medicine psychotherapy and Korean medicine treatment were used to treat an adolescent patient with major depressive disorder. Methods: The Beck Depression Inventory, Reynolds Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire, and Crisis Triage Rating Scale were used as psychological evaluation scales. Korean medicine psychotherapy focuses on Giungoroen-therapy and IiGyeungByunQi-therapy and Korean medicine treatment combined with acupuncture, moxa, and herbal medicine. Results: Comparison before and after treatment showed improvement in clinical symptoms, Beck Depression Inventory, Reynolds Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire, and Crisis Triage Rating Scale. Conclusions: As a result of applying Korean medicine, psychotherapy and Korean medicine treatment reduces to an adolescent patient with major depressive disorder, depression, suicidal thoughts, and suicidal behavior.

Dissociative Identity Disorder in an Adolescent With Nine Alternate Personality Traits: A Case Study

  • Lee, Sang-Hun;Kang, Na Ri;Moon, Duk-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.73-81
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    • 2022
  • Since dissociative identity disorder (DID) has symptoms similar to schizophrenia, such as auditory hallucinations and delusional thoughts of being controlled, there are difficulties in its differential diagnosis. A 16-year-old adolescent male patient who was previously diagnosed with schizophrenia from a different hospital was admitted to our inpatient psychiatric unit for the evaluation of auditory hallucinations and suicide attempts. Through psychiatric evaluations, it was determined that the patient suffered from identity alternation, dissociation, and amnesia. As for the diagnostic evaluations, the following measures were implemented: a psychiatric interview regarding the diagnostic criteria, mental status examination, laboratory tests, brain imaging studies, electroencephalography, and full psychological test for adolescents, and the self-reported measure of the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale. The patient was diagnosed with DID, and the following treatments were administered: pharmacotherapy, ego state therapy, psychoeducation regarding emotions, trauma-focused psychotherapy including stabilization, and family therapy. Following treatment, in the internal dimensions, the patient was able to recognize the nine alternate identities in charge of his emotions, which established a basis for the potential integration of identities. In the external dimensions, he showed improvements in the aspects of family conflicts and issue of school refusal. This is the first reported case of DID in an adolescent in Korea; it emphasizes the consideration of DID in the differential diagnosis of other mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder and expands the treatment opportunities for DID by sharing the procedures of ego state therapy.

The Effects of Parent-Adolescent Intimacy, Parent-Adolescent Communication, and Empathy on Clinical Competency of Nursing Students (간호대학생의 부모자녀 친밀감, 부모자녀 의사소통, 공감능력이 임상수행능력에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Jonggun;Cheon, Euiyoung;Yoo, Janghak
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Integrative Medicine
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.15-24
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    • 2018
  • Purpose : This study aimed to identify the effects parent-adolescent intimacy, parent-adolescent communication, and empathy on the clinical competency of nursing students. Method : Data were collected by 175 nursing students using a self-questionnaire from May 17 to 31, 2017. The data were analyzed with the SPSS 21.0 using an independent t-test, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression. Result : There were significant positive correlations between clinical competency and the other variables. The strongest predictors of clinical competency were parent-adolescent intimacy (${\beta}=.33$) and academic record (${\beta}=.21$), and the model explained 11.3% (F=16.04, p<.001) of the variance. Conclusion : The findings indicated that further studies are needed to explore various factors influencing clinical competency and develop education programs for college nursing students.

Steroid-induced Psychosis in Adolescent Patient with Crohn's Disease

  • Kim, Jin Woo;Kang, Ki Soo;Kang, Na Ri
    • Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.161-164
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    • 2020
  • Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory disease that involves the upper and lower gastrointestinal tracts, including the oral cavity. For the conventional treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases, steroids are usually used as induction therapy, and azathioprine is used as maintenance therapy. Steroids are associated with various side effects. Under rare circumstances, they can even cause psychotic symptoms, and reports on steroid-induced psychosis in the pediatric population are few. Here, we report the first case of steroid-induced psychosis in a 16-year-old female with Crohn's disease administered with steroids as induction therapy in South Korea. She showed psychotic symptoms, including auditory hallucination, loosening of association, and idea of reference, after 2 weeks of administering prednisolone 60 mg/day. One week after steroid discontinuation, the patient gradually recovered and was treated with quetiapine. Therefore, pediatricians should be aware of serious psychiatric adverse effects when administering corticosteroids for various indications.

TASKS AND TECHNIQUES IN THE INITIAL PHASE OF PLAYPSYCHOTHERAPY ILLUSTRATED BY GROUP SUPERVISION PROCESSES (집단 지도 ${\cdot}$ 감독 과정을 통해 본 초기 놀이치료의 기법과 과제)

  • Hong, Kang-E;Park, Min-Sook;Nam, Min
    • Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.142-163
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    • 1993
  • A 8 year old boy with problems of hyperactivity, impulsivity received playpsychotherapy. Through the detailed examination of their contents and group supervision of play therapy session, common mistakes novice therapist make frequently and tasks in the initial phase of play psychotherapy are illustrated. Therapist's personality and anxiety frequently interferes therapeutic processes. Common mistakes therapist makes during initial phase of play therapy are ; therapist's over-enthusiasm, overinvolvement or non-responsiveness, premature or inappropriate interpretation and direct connection of play theme to reality. It is utmost important for the therapist to make positive and trusting relationship with the patient in the initial phase of the therapy. In order to do so therapist must accept the patient as he is, permit the patient takes his leads. And as a result, the Patient can go through corrected developmental experience. In conclusion, it is a therapist's main task to establish relationship.

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Validation of Pediatric Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Questionnaire (Version 2.0) in Brain Tumor Survivor Aged 13 Years and Older (Parent Form) (PedsFACT-BrS Parent of Adolescent)

  • Yoo, Hee-Jung;Kim, Dong-Seok;Lai, Jin-Shei;Cella, David;Shin, Hee-Young;Ra, Young-Shin
    • Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.147-152
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    • 2011
  • Objective : The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Pediatric Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Questionnaire Brain Tumor Survivor (version 2.0) Aged 13 years and older (Parent Form) (pedsFACT-BrS parent of adolescent). Methods : The pedsFACT-BrS parent of adolescent was translated and cross-culturally adapted into Korean, following standard Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) methodology. The psychometric properties of the pedsFACT-BrS parent of adolescent were evaluated in 170 brain tumor patient's mothers (mean age=43.38 years). Pretesting was performed in 30 mothers, and the results indicated good symptom coverage and overall comprehensibility. The participants also completed the Child Health Questionnaire Parent Form 50 (CHQ-PF-50), Neuroticism in Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and Karnofsky score. Results : In validating the pedsFACT-BrS parent of adolescent, we found high internal consistency, with Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ coefficients ranging from 0.76 to 0.94. The assessment of test-retest reliability using intraclass correlation coefficient revealed satisfactory values with ICCs ranging from 0.84 to 0.93. The pedsFACT-BrS for parent of adolescent also demonstrated good convergent and divergent validities when correlated with the Child Health Questionnaire Parent Form 50 (CHQ-PF-50) and the Neuroticism in Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. The pedsFACT-BrS parent of adolescent showed good clinical validity, and effectively differentiated between clinically distinct patient groups according to the type of treatment, tumor location, shunt, and Karnofsky score of parent proxy report. Conclusion : We confirmed that this reliable and valid instrument can be used to properly evaluate the quality of life of Korean adolescent brain tumor patients by their parents' proxy report.

A Clinical Case Study on Treatment of Adolescent Structural (청소년기의 구조적 척추측만증 환자 치험 1례에 대한 보고)

  • Kang, Jun-Hyuk;Hong, Seo-Young;Yoon, Il-Ji;Oh, Min-Suck
    • Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.117-124
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    • 2006
  • Objectives : This study was performed to evaluate the effect of oriental medical treatment on adolescent structural scoliosis. Methods : A patient who has scoliosis was treated with chuna and acupuncture treatment. After the treatment, we evaluated the effects of treatment with radiological measurement by calculating the scoliosis correction angle from the initial and follow-up spine AP view. Result : After the treatment, the cobb's angle of T-spine was changed $23^{\circ}$ to $15^{\circ}$, that of L-spine was changed $25^{\circ}$ to $10^{\circ}$. Conclusions : In this study, Chuna and acupuncture treatment was efficacious against scoliosis. And it is necessary for adolescent scoliosis patient to be more early detection, earily treated and continuous observed.

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A Clinical Study on the Outcome of Chuna Treatment of Adolescent Structural Scoliosis (청소년기의 구조적 척추측만증에 대한 추나치료 결과 고찰)

  • Heo, Su-Young
    • The Journal of Korea CHUNA Manual Medicine
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.121-132
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    • 2001
  • Objectives The present study retrospectively investigated clinical outcome of patients with structual scoliosis during Chuna treatment. Methods : The study population consisted of 34 patients(14 patients of adolescent and 20 patients of adult) who were diagnosised as scoliosis with radiological finding. All patients were treated with Chuna treatment, and after treatment, evaluated with radiological measurement by calculating the scoliosis correction angle from the Initial and follow-up spine AP and lateral views. Also the evaluation of clinical outcome was done twice pre and post treatment during this study. Results : The results were summarized as follows ; 1) The 85.3 percent of patients complained physical pain. and adult group had various painful lesion compared with adolescent group. 2) Adult group had treated $18.0{\pm}7.2$ times and adolescent group treated $13.5{\pm}5.7$ times with Chuna treatment. 3) Scoliotic angle is reduced in 92.9 percent of adolescent group and had all of adult group after Chuna treatment, especially, statistically significance appeared in adult group. 4) Adult group was superior to adolescent group in correctability and scoliotic angle change. 5) Correction effect was better in the group which initial scoliotic angle was lessor, or had more time of treatment. 6) According to grade of vertebral body rotation, scoliotic angle is larger and correctability was lower. Conclusions : Chuna treatment was efficacious against scoliosis. And it is necessary for adolescent scoliosis patient to be more carefully treated and observed.

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A CASE OF PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER NOS WITH REPETATIVE SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR (반복적으로 머리를 때리는 전반성발달장애 환아 1례)

  • Kim, Jeong-Lim;Chung, Bo-In;Cho, Soo-Churl;Hong, Kang-E;Lim, Myung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.244-251
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    • 1999
  • Self-injurious behavior is often showed in mental retardation, especially in autism. Self-injurious behavior has been regarded as a symptom cluster rather than a disease but it is an emergent clinical situation that can directly affect mortality. This case is about a refractory autistic patient who showed a self-injurious behavior of hitting the head repetitively. He was hospitalized and was treated by pharmacotherapy and behavior therapy and for this reason this clinical experience is reported with literature review. The patient is a 7-year old boy who was ward admitted from 1999 April 20 till July 10 into OO hospital OO ward because of self-injurious behavior. During the 12 weeks he had admission treatment. As for the pharmacotherapy, haloperidol was dosed up from 0.5mg to 1.0mg from the 4th week and combination drug therapy was done during the admission with naltrexone 25-50mg. As for the behavioral therapy, Differential Reinforcement of Other behavior was used and regular play therapy was done. To remove the physical restraint, headgear and hard sleeve was used. Currently, OPD follow up treatment is being done and haloperidol 0.5mg and naltrexone 50mg is maintained. The patient’s mother is educated and play therapy is done an hour daily at home. When the patient was released form the hospital, self-injurious behavior was decreased more than the moderate state and remission state is still being maintained at the outpatient clinic.

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