Dear FEASTers,
Here's a Call for Abstracts that may be of interest to some of us. The
deadline is this Sat Nov 15 for 500-600 word abstracts. Please contact the
organizer, Christian Perring at [log in to unmask] with any questions. The
text is pasted below and also available online here:
http://alien.dowling.edu/~cperring/aapp-capconf.html
*ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHIATRY*
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*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS*
*21ST ANNUAL MEETING*
*May 16 & 17, 2009*
*San Francisco, California*
*THEME: Philosophical Issues in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry*
*Conference Co-Chairs:*
*Christian Perring, Ph.D., Dowling College, NY*
*Lloyd Wells, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic, MN*
Child and adolescent psychiatry has had relatively little philosophical
attention, yet it is rich with theoretical, conceptual, ethical, and social
issues. Children and adolescents are still undergoing significant
psychological development and they occupy very different social roles from
adults, so their experience of emotional and cognitive problems is very
different from that of adults. A central issue is whether we should
conceive of childhood mental disorder in the same way as adult mental
disorder, and how we should acknowledge the differences between children and
adults in our classification schemes. It is generally acknowledged that
family dynamics can play a major role in the development of a child's
emotional problems, and many in the field have argued that the family should
be the central unit of treatment. Yet the trend in psychiatry is to move
towards a more individualistic or atomistic understanding of mental
disorder, and this places child and adolescent psychiatry potentially in
tension with the rest of the field. Philosophical discussion has the
potential to illuminate and even resolve some of the theoretical
disputes. Furthermore,
ethical issues have been especially prominent in the treatment of children
and adolescents, from the disputes about the potential over-diagnosis and
resulting needless treatment of childhood ADHD and depression, to alarming
claims that some antidepressants can cause suicidal behavior in young
people. In medical ethics, there has been growing awareness of the need to
recognize the rights of children, and the importance of sometimes letting
them participate in treatment decisions. The task of determining criteria
for the competence of young people is especially challenging when they have
mental disorders. This AAPP conference will provide the opportunity for
psychiatrists, psychologists and philosophers to address these and related
issues.
Possible topics for presentations:
• Should child and adolescent psychiatry have a different
diagnostic scheme for mental disorders from adult psychiatry?
• The role of the medical model and competing approaches in
categorizing mental disorders of youth
• The conceptual relation between family problems and child
psychopathology
• The medicalization of normal problems of childhood and
adolescence
• Epistemic and conceptual problems in diagnosing mental disorders
of infants and very young children
• The conceptual legitimacy of the diagnostic categories of conduct
disorder and oppositional defiant disorder
• Psychiatry's reaction to the relation between eating disorders
and increasing social pressures on young people to conform to impossible
standards of beauty
• The ethical responsibilities of psychiatrists in prescribing
medications to young people when there have been reports of potential
increasing risk of suicide
• Ethical issues in genetic testing of children for mental
disorders
• Children's capacity to consent to psychiatric treatment or
research
Presentations will be strictly limited to 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes
for discussion.
Abstracts will be blind reviewed, so the author's identifying information
should be attached separately.
*Abstracts should be 500-600 words in length and should be sent via email by
November 15, 2008 to Christian Perring at [log in to unmask]*. Notices of
acceptance or rejection will be distributed on January 1, 2009.
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