CHAPTER TWELVE
Adolescent Psychopathology
CASE VIGNETTES
Case 1
A 15-year-old Filipino female was admitted to an adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit because of lack of sleep, not eating, withdrawal, isolation, inability or refusal to communicate, “bizarre behaviors” such as turning up the television in the “wee” hours of the morning, “hearing voices,” and threats of killing herself if she were removed from home and placed elsewhere, such as in a hospital.
The patient and her family had migrated from the Philippines to the United States four years prior to admission. She was reportedly doing quite well until two years prior ...
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