PsyDactic - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Board Study Edition

PsyDactic - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Board Study Edition

Using the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology content outline for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry board exam, starting with the most high yield, Dr. O'Leary has created this podcast for anyone interested in CAPS and also to help him study for the boards. Enjoy! Let Dr. O'Leary know what you think by going to https://psydactic.com/ and filling out the form there.

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May 1, 2025 26 mins

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This episode highlights the significant controversy surrounding the diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children, pointing out issues of both over and underdiagnosis and the challenges in differentiating it from conditions like ADHD and Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD). Key takeaways include understanding the diagnostic criteria, including the critical role of thorough assessment beyond just ...

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This Episode covers major depressive disorder in children and adolescents.  According to the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, content related to depressive disorders constitute 7 to 9 percent of the board exam, so it’s worth a second, third and even fourth look.  Again, I will leave you in the competent hands of my AI co-hosts, Algernon and Alisa, or Allen and Alberta.  They don’t care what ...

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March 27, 2025 35 mins

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Now that we carry around casinos in our pockets, the rates of gambling disorder among adolescents is skyrocketing.  Yet, gambling disorder may be the most under-diagnosed disorder in the DSM.  This is an exhaustive treatment of the neurobiological, psychological, and societal aspects of gambling addiction, featuring discussions on the brain's reward system, cognitive distortions, and the impact of...

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This is a general overview that highlights common features of substance use disorders in youth and discusses in more detail substances like alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, and opioids.  It is a curated A.I. generated podcast.

Referenced resources can be found within the show transcripts at https://psydactic_caps.buzzsprout.com


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This episode delves into the epidemiology, neurobiology, and differential diagnosis of Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), including its frequent co-occurrence with autism intellectual developmental disorder or ADHD, and stresses the importance of occupational and physical therapies to improve outcomes, highlighting that DCD should be identified and addressed rather than being subsumed into othe...

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Enjoy today’s A.I. generated discussion of ADHD etiology, epidemiology, and diagnosis.


Referenced resources can be found within the show transcripts at https://psydactic_caps.buzzsprout.com

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Dr. O'Leary tries something new by feeding an artificial intelligence a series of peer reviewed papers about autism spectrum disorder and having it generate an audio discussion of the content.  This episode focusses on the differential diagnosis of ASD and how to rule out other neurodevelopmental disorders and even OCD or an anxiety disorder.

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This episode focuses on communication disorders in children, specifically language, speech sound, fluency, and social communication disorders. It differentiates these disorders through case vignettes, comparing and contrasting DSM-5 TR criteria, and highlighting key features of each disorder.

Language Disorder is characterized by persistent difficulties in language acquisition and use, impacting both co...

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January 30, 2025 18 mins

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This episode begins with a case vignette about a 7-year-old boy, Tommy, who exhibits global developmental delays and impaired adaptive functioning. Dr. O'Leary explores the DSM-5 criteria for ID, emphasizing deficits in intellectual functions and adaptive functioning during the developmental period. Severity levels are based on adaptive functioning and range from mild to profound. The episode dist...

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In the last episode, I introduced behaviorism, which took a strikingly different approach to human learning and development by basically assuming that everything we are on the inside is somehow learned from the environment, except for some of the most basic things we need for survival.  Our inner life and the reasons we give for our decisions are more or less illusions.  What we are is what we are cond...

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I have so far discussed some of the early psychosexual, psychosocial and cognitive approaches to child development, but I would be remiss if I did not also mention a group of theorists who attempted to study humanity by completely ignoring the fact that they have thoughts and emotions.  The behavioralists tried to simplify the study of humans by massively simplifying their assumptions about humans.  In...

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In episode 8, I started discussing temperament theory with an introduction to Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess.  They first developed a temperamental formulation by following 141 children longitudinally and proposed 9 dimensions of temperament that can be reduced to three basic categories: Easy, Difficult, or Slow-to-warm-up temperament.  There were many researchers to follow and today I am going to c...

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While it may seem quaint today, the radical contribution that Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess made to child development was to look at children as unique individuals with very different innate approaches to the world that were present at birth.  While processes like attachment and their psychosocial context help to determine a child’s outcome, what Thomas and Chess emphasized was a child’s temperamen...

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Attachment theory began when John Bowlby rebelled from the psychoanalytic establishment by, for the first time, observing families interacting in order to understand individuals.  Bowlby was later joined by Mary Ainsworth who developed on of the most iconic clinical tools in the history of child psychology: The Strange Situation.  This episode begins with Bowlby and Ainsworth and explores the differenc...

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Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory of development focuses on the social and emotional aspects of human growth.  A child’s cognitive development underlies what Erikson describes and arguably, without the cognitive skills described by Piaget, the psychosocial stages that Erikson describes would not be possible.  Erikson's stages emphasize an individual's main psychological struggles or con...

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November 17, 2024 29 mins

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Jean Piaget's description of cognitive development is markedly different from psychosexual and psychoanalytic approaches.  He was concerned primarily with cognitive abilities.  Instead of basically just making up a complex inner life and mode of relating to mommy’s breast, he described the kinds of cognitive tasks children are actually increasingly able to do as they age.  Unlike Sigmund Freud and...

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Following Freud, there were many researchers trying to make sense of child development using his psychosexual approach as a framework.  Among those that adopted the psychoanalytic approach was his daughter, Anna Freud, who has been called “the mother of child psychoanalysis.”  Other mothers include the developers of Object Relations including Melanie Klein and Margaret Mahler.


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Sigmund Freud's psychosexual approach proposes that human development unfolds in a series of stages, each focused on a different erogenous zone. Successful resolution of conflicts in each stage is crucial for healthy personality development. Dr. O'Leary gives a brief breakdown of Freud's psychosexual stages.

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Dr. O'Leary reviews the basic developmental milestones children are expected to reach by age 5.  

https://cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/milestones-2mo.html 

Referenced resources can be found within the show transcripts at https://psydactic_caps.buzzsprout.com


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Dr. O'Leary introduces PsyDactic - CAPS Edition, explains the goal of this podcast, and how it was produced.

This podcast is intended as a study aid for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry board exam.


Referenced resources can be found within the show transcripts at https://psydactic_caps.buzzsprout.com


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