Hallucinations And Mental Health In Children

Author:M Elena Garralda
Volume Info:Volume 2 Issue 2
Article Information

Volume 2 Issue 2 , pages 32-36
Published January 2017

 


Imperial College London

 

Corresponding Author: e.garralda@imperial.ac.uk

Abstract:


Hallucinations refer to the experience of sensory perceptions in the absence of real external stimulation of the relevant sensory organ. In children they can present during states of reduced awareness and be sleep related or linked to abnormal neurological toxic states. Hallucinations – mainly auditory or visual in modality – are a key feature of psychotic states, but they can also present in the context of virtually any other child psychiatric disorder, and hallucinations – probably largely simple in nature – are also commonly reported by children and young people in general population samples. This review outlines hallucinatory presentations in delirium and in psychotic and non-psychotic child psychiatric disorders; it addresses their predictive value for later psychopathology, and the assessment and management of hallucinations in children.

Key words: Hallucinations, children and adolescents, delirium, psychotic states, assessment, management.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colours are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect – Carson McCullers. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/senses_2.html

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