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Editorial
. 2025 Sep 25:16:1675976.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1675976. eCollection 2025.

Editorial: Getting diagnosis right in child psychiatry: lessons from the pediatric bipolar disorder era

Peter Parry  1   2 , Anne Cecilia Duffy  3   4 , Glen Raymond Elliott  5 , Glen Spielmans  6
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Editorial: Getting diagnosis right in child psychiatry: lessons from the pediatric bipolar disorder era

Peter Parry et al. Front Psychiatry. .
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Keywords: child and adolescent psychiatric disorders; developmental psychology; mania and bipolar disorder; parent child attachment; pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD); polypharmacy; psychiatric assessment; psychiatric nosology.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The author(s) declared that they were an editorial board member of Frontiers, at the time of submission. This had no impact on the peer review process and the final decision.

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