PsyDactic - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Board Study Edition
Episodes
025 - Oppositional Defiant Disorder is a Syndrome, not a Primary Disorder
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - Dr. O'Leary discusses his critical perspective on Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and argues that ODD is not a ...
024 - Pediatric Trauma and Stress - Part 3 - Treatment
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - This is part 3 of a series on pediatric trauma, delving into the treatment of trauma and stress-related disorders in chi...
023 - Pediatric Trauma and Stress - Part 2 - Developmental Perspectives
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - This is the second of a three-part series on pediatric trauma, delveing into the epidemiology and underlying mechanisms ...
022 - Pediatric Trauma and Stress - Part 1 - Diagnosis
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - Dr O'Leary discusses post-traumatic stress disorder, reactive attachment disorder, disinhibited social engagement d...
021 - Anxiety Disorders of Childhood
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - In this episode Dr. O'Leary delves into the complex world of Pediatric Anxiety Disorders. Learn about Separation An...
020A - Pediatric Bipolar vs Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder et. al
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - Dr. O'Leary delves into the complex and often controversial topic of diagnosing Pediatric Bipolar Disorder and its ...
019 - Depression in Children and Adolescents
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - This Episode covers major depressive disorder in children and adolescents. According to the American Board of Psychiat...
018 - Adolescents and Gambling Disorder
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - Now that we carry around casinos in our pockets, the rates of gambling disorder among adolescents is skyrocketing. Yet...
017 - Substance Use Disorders in Children and Adolescents - An A.I. Generated Overview
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - This is a general overview that highlights common features of substance use disorders in youth and discusses in more det...
016 - Developmental Coordination Disorder
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - This episode delves into the epidemiology, neurobiology, and differential diagnosis of Developmental Coordination Disord...
015 - ADHD - Etiology, Epidemiology, and Differential Diagnosis
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - Enjoy today’s A.I. generated discussion of ADHD etiology, epidemiology, and diagnosis.Referenced resources can be foun...
014 - Autism Spectrum Disorder an A.I's Differential Diagnosis
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - Dr. O'Leary tries something new by feeding an artificial intelligence a series of peer reviewed papers about autism...
013 - Communication, Language, and Fluency Disorders of Development
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - This episode focuses on communication disorders in children, specifically language, speech sound, fluency, and social co...
012 - Intellectual Disability
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - This episode begins with a case vignette about a 7-year-old boy, Tommy, who exhibits global developmental delays and imp...
011 - Behaviorism, Operant Conditioning and Positive Psychology
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - In the last episode, I introduced behaviorism, which took a strikingly different approach to human learning and developm...
010 - Behaviorism and Classical Conditioning
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - I have so far discussed some of the early psychosexual, psychosocial and cognitive approaches to child development, but ...
009 - Temperament - Part 2 - Gray, Rothbart, Kagan, Eisenberg, Schermerhorn and Bates
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - In episode 8, I started discussing temperament theory with an introduction to Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess. They ...
008 - Temperament - Part 1 - Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - While it may seem quaint today, the radical contribution that Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess made to child developmen...
007 - Attachment Theory and Parenting Styles
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - Attachment theory began when John Bowlby rebelled from the psychoanalytic establishment by, for the first time, observin...
006 - Erik Erickson's Psychosocial Model of Development
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory of development focuses on the social and emotional aspects of human growth. A ...
005 - Piaget and Cognitive Development
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - Jean Piaget's description of cognitive development is markedly different from psychosexual and psychoanalytic appro...
004 - Psychosexual Approaches to Development - Anna Freud, Klein, and Mahler
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - Following Freud, there were many researchers trying to make sense of child development using his psychosexual approach a...
003 - Psychosexual Approaches to Child Development: Freud the elder
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - Sigmund Freud's psychosexual approach proposes that human development unfolds in a series of stages, each focused o...
002 - Human Developmental Milestones Birth to Age 5
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - Dr. O'Leary reviews the basic developmental milestones children are expected to reach by age 5. https://cdc.gov/n...
001 - Trailer and Introduction of PsyDactic - CAPS Edition
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let me know what you think! - Dr. O'Leary introduces PsyDactic - CAPS Edition, explains the goal of this podcast, and how it was produced.This po...