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Database Search

How to use this database.

• Method 1- uses a free natural language approach.

  After choosing the object of the search – by ticking title, abstract, aims and objective, or author - enter a term, word or name in the ‘Search’ box to return references answering your research question.

• Method 2 - utilises key words.

  Those key words assigned from thesauruses of controlled vocabulary by the trained coders of international bibliographic databases.
  The controlled vocabularies key word are listed alphanumerically under 'Bibliographic database keywords' .
  Use the drop down menu to identity which 'key words' you are interested in to return references to answer your research question.

• Method 3 - is based on the indexing system

  developed by the researchers who compiled this database.
  It adopts a thematic approach to mapping Irish child health research. The themed areas represent outcomes mapped to the International Classification of Disease version 10 (ICD-10) or one of 23 other health-related themed outcomes. Themes are defined in Tables 5 to 7 (of the study report).
  Use the alphabetic drop down menu under ‘ICD-10 or themed health-related outcomes’ to identity which themed areas you are interested in to select references to answer your research question.

• Method 4 – allows papers to be searched by Study type.

  Indexing by study type offers a valuable insight into understanding the population impact of the topic of interest. More than 20 study types were identified across the 2,152 study papers. These are defined in Table 3 (of the study report). Within 'Study type' papers are further stratification by geographical region (Table 49), topic area of interest and study aims and objectives.
  Click on 'Study type' to select the type of study of interest, progressively select sub-categories by topic area or other sub-classification of interest to answer your research question.

The complete background, methods and findings from this mapping exercise are detailed in the study report.

Psychotherapeutic Processes

Your search returns 2 documents

• 1.   Putting Harry Potter on the Couch

  This case report investigates whether Harry Potter stories can be clinically employed to assist in psychotheraputic work with children and adolescents

  

  Abstract:

  [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 12(3) of Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry (see record 2007-12205-022). The following quote on page 588 should have appeared in quotation marks: "...Potter books have a wonderful capacity to draw us in through the power of imagination. Then, paradoxically, just as we think we have escaped from the world, more...

  International Classification:

  Psychosocial functioning

  Categories:

  psychotheraputic

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol: 11 Page: 579-589 2006
  Colman Noctor

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• 2.   The multidisciplinary team in child psychiatry

  This article discusses the multidisciplinary team in child psychiatry

  

  Abstract:

  The author believes that there is excessive and unwarranted belief in the value of the multidisciplinary team in all referrals to child psychiatry. Its use is often unhelpful because other patients on the waiting list are left for very long periods of time without assessment or treatment. The idea of two or three qualified members of a team observing a family at the same time is not, in more...

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, Vol: 20 Page: 105-105 2003
  Michael Fitzgerald

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