ATTIVITA' NEUROPSICHIATRICA AMBULATORIALE CON SOGGETTI, DI ETA' 0-11: STUDIO CLINICO DI 201 CASI

The authors present a case report about 201 children seen in the outpatients’ service they work in. They are children with psychic problems, referred to the service by themselves or by different structures (medical practitioner, school operator, district mental health service, hospital,…). The study considers many variables about personal, familiar, psychosocial, psychopathological and clinical factors and analyses both frequencies of single variables and relations among different variables. Interesting results came out about clinical, psychosocial and epidemiological data (relation of symptoms with diagnosis and therapy; relation of marital situation of parental couple with emergency character of the referral, story of stress life events and presence of siblings; relation of gender and age with symptoms, diagnosis and therapeutic project; relation of cultural level of family with type of referral and timing of referral by the manifestation of the problem). Results are described, discussed and confronted to data of literature.