{"id":60893,"date":"2015-10-26T15:31:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T19:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=60893"},"modified":"2015-10-27T13:53:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T17:53:04","slug":"developmental-deviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/26\/developmental-deviation\/","title":{"rendered":"developmental deviation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">Long ago and far away in a galaxy called the 1970s, I was in a Psychiatry residency on a Child and Adolescent rotation &#8211; one of my favorites. It was a different time, and I learned a term that stayed with me to this day. An attending was explaining a difference between therapy with children and with adults. It went something like this:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">With adults, you&#8217;re dealing with ingrained character traits &#8211; maladaptive ways of approaching the world, of dealing with people. The task involves isolating those automatic mechanisms and then helping the patient find ways to become aware of and hopefully change them. With kids, it&#8217;s different because we&#8217;re dealing with a developing person. We look at a lot of psychopathology as <em><font color=\"#200020\">developmental deviation<\/font><\/em>. The kid has gotten off the track, and our task is to get them back on the road to healthy development.<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"125\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/adultomorphic-1.gif\" \/>I didn&#8217;t pursue a Child and Adolescent fellowship, but would&#8217;ve if I hadn&#8217;t used up my be-a-student quota on a couple of residencies and analytic training. But that idea of developmental deviation stayed with me. Years later I was working in a Child and Adolescent clinic and saw how important that concept really is. Most of the adolescents were brought because of behavioral problem or depressive symptoms and the main thrust of our work with the kids and their families was to help them get back to the business of developing an identity suitable for adult challenges. <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"small\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/adultomorphic.gif\" \/>When I woke&middot;up after retiring and found how much the academic-industrial alliance had fueled something of a medication-mania, I was most surprised about how it had its fingers in the C&amp;A literature and practice. The Bieder&middot;mania epidemic of the Bipolar Child, the general use of the atypical antipsychotics in disruptive and developmentally challenged children, and the continued use of the SSRI andidepressants in adolescents in spite of the weak to negative clinical trials and Black Box Warning were unwelcome surprises. It was if the distinction between child and adult psychiatry, between children and adults, had eroded and the kids were being treated as <font color=\"#200020\"><em>little adults<\/em><\/font> &#8211; reminiscent of the adultomorphic children of previous centuries.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">I was disappointed that the official responses to our recent RIAT article [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/doi\/10.1136\/bmj.h4320\">Restoring    Study 329: efficacy and harms of paroxetine and                  imipramine in treatment of major depression in adolescence<\/a>] from the <font color=\"#200020\">American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry <\/font>[<font color=\"#200020\">AACAP<\/font>] and its journal [<font color=\"#200020\">JAACAP<\/font>] were so focused on their paper itself [<a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/26\/aacap-and-jaacap-respond\/\" target=\"_blank\">aacap and jaacap respond&hellip;<\/a>], rather than to the broader issues like data transparency of clinical trials or overmedicating children. The <font color=\"#200020\">American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry <\/font>[<font color=\"#200020\">AACAP<\/font>] is meeting in San Antonio Texas this week [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aacap.org\/aacap\/CME_and_Meetings\/Annual_Meeting\/62nd_Annual_Meeting\/62nd_AM_Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">AACAP&#8217;s 62nd Annual Meeting<\/a>], and to my knowledge, Study 329 isn&#8217;t on the docket, though some members argue it should be [<a href=\"http:\/\/AllCapsUnlocked.com\" target=\"_blank\">AllCapsUnlocked<\/a>]. One of the authors of that 329 paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/02\/deeply-troubling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Karen Dineen Wagner<\/a>, is slated to be installed as president elect this week. <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">It&#8217;s not my organization and I know little of its history, but from my vantage, the <font color=\"#200020\">American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry <\/font>has itself undergone a <em><font color=\"#200020\">developmental deviation<\/font><\/em> of its own and, for the moment, shows no signs of recovery&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long ago and far away in a galaxy called the 1970s, I was in a Psychiatry residency on a Child and Adolescent rotation &#8211; one of my favorites. It was a different time, and I learned a term that stayed with me to this day. 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