International conference on Adolescent Medicine & Child Psychology September 28-30, 2015 Houston, USA

Yu kai Du works as a Professor in Department of maternal and child health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His majors in child health, reproductive health and social medical, especially in mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B Virus, prevention and intervention against HIV and birth defects. He has taken charge of three National Natural Science Foundation Projects. As one of the leaders of maternal and child health subject, He act as one of expert committee members in several national or provincial committees. He has also participated in compiling some books, which are graduates or post-graduate teaching materials. He has published about 150 papers, including about 30 SCI

To investigate epidemiological status of self-stigma of hearing-impaired middle school students in Hubei province. Based on the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Scale, a Chinese version scale on self-stigma of disability was developed. A cross-sectional survey was performed in eight cities of Hubei province. Independent samples t test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson analysis and multivariable linear regression model were used to analyze data. The revised scale consisted of 23 items including four common factors: Devaluation-discrimination, alienation, social withdrawal and stigma resistance. The homogeneity reliability, test-retest reliability and split-half reliability and inner correlations ranged 0.50-0.92 and the criterion and the construct validity of scale were statistically significant (P<0.05). 503 hearing-impaired middle school students were investigated and the rate of high self-stigma was 18.24%. The differences of the self-stigma level was statically significant among school location, grade and hearing-impaired degree (all P<0.05). Besides, the association of resilience, negative coping styles and perceived social support with the self-stigma were statically significant (all P<0.01). School location and negative coping style had positive association with self-stigma level, alienation, social withdrawal and devaluation-discrimination (P<0.05); resilience, perceived social support and parenting style were negative with self-stigma level and devaluation-discrimination (P<0.05); age and resilience had negatively association with stigma resistance (P<0.001); resilience and peer relationship were negative associated with social withdrawal (all P<0.01). The revised self-stigma of disability scale has good reliability and validity which can meet the requirements of psychological measurement. The self-stigma among disabilities should be paid more attention.

Yu Yizhen(1965-) Professor of Tongji Medical College，Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Major area of research interest is psychological development and mental health of child and adolescent, especially on the risk factors and molecular mechanism of aggression in adolescent. As a PI, I undertook 3 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China and 11 projects of Ministry of Health of P.R.C.

Background: Indirect aggression, a covert form of aggressive behaviors, is as harmful as the direct form of aggression in early adolescents. This study sought to explore the unique and interactive roles of parental attachment and empathy in predicting indirect aggression during early adolescence.
Methodology/Findings: A sample of 6,301 early adolescents (49.2% boys and 50.8% girls) in urban China, aged from 11 to 14 years, completed self-administrated measures of parent-adolescent attachment, empathy, and indirect aggression. Two series of hierarchical regression analysis were conducted separately by gender to explore the interactive role of empathy (perspective taking, empathetic concern) and parental attachment (mother attachment, father attachment) in predicting indirect aggression. The study indicated that low perspective taking was associated with more indirect aggression, but empathetic concern had no direct links to indirect aggression in total population. However, hierarchical regression analyses revealed that empathetic concern moderated the association between mother attachment and girls’ indirect aggression [R2 change=.002, F (1, 3192) =7.47, P<0.05], and perspective taking and empathetic concern were interacted in predicting boys’ indirect aggression [R2 change=.001, F (1, 3095) =4.42, P<0.05]
Conclusions/Significance: The findings suggested that relatively high empathetic concern might not be a sufficient protective factor of indirect aggression in Chinese early adolescents.

Dolapo Adegboye is an MSc student on the Mental Health Studies programme at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience. Prior to this, she completed a BSc degree in Psychology at the University of Surrey where she was awarded the Mark Bradshaw Memorial Prize for the best dissertation in the School of Psychology. She is currently in the process of publishing two papers in collaboration with Evelina Children’s Hospital, St Thomas’ Hospital, where she worked as an Assistant Psychologist

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is an umbrella term for a group of non-progressive motor disorders caused by damage to an immature brain, resulting in abnormal development of movement and posture. In addition to motor difficulties, a range of non-motor problems have also been identified in children with Cerebral Palsy, including communication difficulties, problems with emotion regulation, Theory of Mind (ToM) and peer relation difficulties. There is a paucity of research investigating these important concepts within this population. Fostering the knowledge of such non-motor challenges may have important implications for how assessments and therapeutic interventions are carried out and may aid in the psychological preparation for surgery. Twenty-two verbal and nonverbal children with CP, who were assessed on measures of theory of mind, emotion regulation (ER), and social competence (SC), presented with higher difficulties than a normative sample of 20 children/adolescents. Nonverbal children with CP were found to present with greater social impairment and lower ToM ability than their verbal counterparts. Further investigation found that ER and hyperactivity and attentional difficulties (HAD) significantly predicted ToM ability in the CP group. The impact of IQ and GMFCS level on ToM ability will also be discussed (those without learning difficulties scored higher than those with learning difficulties, and lower RMET scores were found in participants with higher GMFCS levels). The findings indicate that more attention should be paid to the emotional health and social development of children with CP alongside their motor difficulties in the planning and implementation of interventions and individual care plans.

Pawan Arun Khadse has completed his DPM (Diploma in psychological medicine) from Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP), Ranchi (India). It is a primier research & training institue of psychiatry in India. Presently he is perusing MD in psychiatry at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore (India). NIMHANS is considered as an institute of national importance by government of India. He has been a rank holder in various university examinations. Child psychiatry and Addiction medicine are the research areas of his interest. At present he is conducting a fMRI plus MRS study in alcoholics.

Physical anhedonia (PA) has been recognized as an endophenotype and a candidate symptom in schizophrenia in multiple studies. There is no study done to invetigate this measure in childhood onset bipolar disorder. In current study thirty patients of childhood onset bipolar disorder, 30 of their first-degree relatives, and 30 normal subjects were assessed using Chapman’s Revised Physical Anhedonia Scale. We hypothesized that children with bipolar disorder would obtain higher scores on these scales than their relatives and the controls, and we expected the group of relatives to score more deviantly than the normal controls. In our study, the physical anhedonia scale could not differentiate bipolar patients from their unaffected relatives or normal subjects as there was no significant difference in PA scores across the three groups. Further, Physical anhedonia turned out to be a stable trait in children with bipolar disorder and no significant difference could be found in clinical characteristics of anhedonic and hedonic patients. Also, physical anhedonia was not associated with an increased familial risk for bipolar disorder. These results implies that unlike in schizophrenia physical anhedonia can not be regarded as an endophenotype in childhood onset bipolar disorder. Further, as physical anhedonia does’t identify a homogeneous clinical or familial sub-group, it cannot be considered a candidate symptom in childhood onset bipolar disorder. Thus, we can conclude that physical anhedonia can be a usuful endophenotypic measure to differentiate childhood onset bipolar disorer from schizophrenia.