Bibliographic record
Abstract
Child Psychiatry Basic Child Psychiatry Philip Barker. Oxford (UK): Blackwell Science Limited; 2004 248 p. CANS52.95. Reviewer rating: Good At a time when there is an acute shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists in Canada and the rest of the world, those who practise or are training to practise family medicine or general adult psychiatry increasingly find themselves having to assess and manage children and adolescents with psychiatric problems. Considering that the cumulative prevalence rate of psychiatric disorders among children and adolescents is about 5% to 22%, there is indeed an urgent need to educate primary care physicians, pediatricians, general psychiatrists, and health workers to enable them to recognize and manage some of these disorders. As the title suggests, this is an introduction to the basics of child psychiatry. The book is divided into 23 short chapters that encompass all diagnostic groups in child psychiatry, starting with a brief review of developmental factors and ending with one on prevention. All chapters are well organized and written clearly and concisely with most salient and current references at the end of the book for those wishing to further pursue any of the topics. Chapter 4, on epidemiology, gives a brief description of major research into incidence and prevalence of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders. It provides a context in which to view each of the diagnostic groups. Chapter 5 Assessing Children and Their Families is a tour de force. At 19 pages, it is the longest chapter. It virtually walks the reader step by step through the interview and assessment process with sample questions to elicit information, strategies for maximizing attainment of rapport, and comprehensive history taking. The chapter ends with a useful grid for formulating the information of predisposers, precipitators, perperuators, and protectors in the 4 domains of constitutional, temperamental, physical, and environmental factors. This chapter is a testimony to the author's clinical experience and expertise in direct care of children and their families. There are 12 chapters dedicated to major disorders, including a chapter on reaction to stress. These chapters are organized systematically with definitions and prevalence, causes, descriptions, assessment and treatment, and outcome for each disorder. Chapter 17, Mind Body Relationship, takes dichotomous concepts and thoughtfully demonstrates their interdependence and circularity, helping to divert attempts from linear causality and solutions to more appropriate multidimensional thinking. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.077 | 0.054 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".