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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1974) 125: 466-467. doi: 10.1192/bjp.125.5.466
© 1974 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Psychiatric Illness in the Mothers of School-Phobic Adolescents

IAN BERG M.D., M.R.C.P.E., M.R.C.Psych.1, ALAN BUTLER B.A., A.A.P.S.W.2, and JANICE PRITCHARD B.Sc.3

1 Consultant Child Psychiatrist, High Lands Adolescent Unit, Scalebor Park Hospital, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Yorks., Honorary Lecturer in Child Psychiatry, University of Leeds
2 Lecturer in Social Work, Department of Psychiatry, Leeds University, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds, 2
3 Postgraduate Student, University of York, Heslington, York

Maternal psychiatric illness was investigated in a hundred school-phobic youngsters and 113 non-school-phobic cases admitted to an adolescent unit, using hospital records and letters to general practitioners. Paternal mental illness was also looked at using case records.

About a fifth of parents had a history of psychiatric disorder in both groups. Over half the affected mothers in each group had suffered from an affective disorder. It was not possible to relate school phobia to the type of maternal mental illness. All the findings were in accordance with previous work.

Submitted on January 23, 1974






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