Volkmar F R
Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1996 Jul;35(7):843-51. doi: 10.1097/00004583-199607000-00009.
Developmental aspects of psychosis are reviewed and related to the more frequent psychotic conditions in children and adolescents.
The review of the recent literature focuses on developmental aspects of psychotic phenomena, i.e., hallucinations, delusions, and thought disorder.
While the applicability of much early work on this topic is limited, more recent work suggests that psychotic conditions are observed in childhood and increase in frequency during adolescence.
Developmental factors in the expression of psychosis are relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of such conditions.
