Conversion disorder in a preschool age girl

Bibliographic Data

ID4227979
AuthorsGeorgios Bouras (Attikon University Hospital, University of Athens, Greece), Ioannis Michopoulos (0000-0003-3217-0218, Attikon University Hospital, University of Athens, Greece), Nikoletta Theofanopoulou (Attikon University Hospital, University of Athens, Greece), Nikki Theofanopoulou (0000-0002-2781-2784), Ioanna Giannopoulou (0000-0002-5982-9388, Attikon University Hospital, University of Athens, Greece), Christos Christodoulou (0000-0002-7959-0343, Attikon University Hospital, University of Athens, Greece), Argirios Dinopoulos (0000-0001-8925-4338, Attikon University Hospital, University of Athens, Greece)
Year2016
Volume21
Issue11
Pages2668-2672
Publication date2016-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359105315583368
PMID25972349
OpenAlexW911021670
LanguageEN
References cited13

This article reports a case of a 5-year-old girl with clinical manifestations of a conversion disorder. Children presenting with a conversion disorder very often have multiple investigations and more than two-thirds of them are admitted to the hospital. This case illustrates the necessity of adapting, from the outset, a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and management, which helps in providing an explanatory model that takes into account stressors, factors within the child and the family, and aids in planning an appropriate psychotherapeutic intervention based on the child's and family's needs

Congenital disorder · Conversion disorder · Developmental psychology · Girl · Intervention (counseling · Multidisciplinary approach · Psychiatry · Sociology · Stressor · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Medicine · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies · Clinical Psychology · Pediatrics

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