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Child And Adolescent Psychiatry American Academy Of Child
660 wordsThe Misdiagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder ADD is a disorder that is very challenging to diagnose because the symptoms can be varying in number and intensity can show a positive diagnosis. Even the official scale of DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders); created and updated by the American Medical Association; can be questioned for validity. In the past ten years there have been many studies done on the problems of over-diagnosis and over-prescription. Because it is ...
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Child And Adolescent Children And Adolescents
1,546 wordsAdolescent depression continues to be a growing American problem since its discovery in the 1970 s. How exactly to treat this problem, however, is not a clear issue. For years the psychiatric community felt that psychotherapy was the best way to treat this growing epidemic. However, with the development of antidepressants, most famously Prozac, many people feel the problem is nearing a solution. Many psychiatrists believe these pills can be a quick and effective way to treat suffering adolescent...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Cognitive Behavioral
1,003 words... eople with OCD report that the symptoms can come and go on their own. Individuals with OCD may have substance-abuse problems, sometimes as a result of attempts to self-medicate. Specific treatment for the substance abuse is usually also needed. After a proper diagnosis, there are many treatments available for patients suffering from OCD. However, before any treatment is administered, the patient and family are educated about OCD and its treatment as a medical illness. First of all, there are...
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Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adhd Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
1,253 wordsAre We Paying Attention or is Ritalin Mothers Little Helper Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are increasingly being discussed interchangeably. It has captured the attention of researchers everywhere. With this disorder there exist prevailing evaluations, and positive reinforcements, behavior modifications which impact children with special needs. Often times, behavior is associated with learning, for example, out of seat behavior and hyperactiv...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Frontal Lobes
1,231 words... n of responsibility for keeping the household running smoothly and meeting the needs of the children, the spouse with ADD, and, if he or she has time, his or her own priorities. Raising a child who has ADD can be an exhausting and, at times, frustrating experience. Parents play a key role in managing the disability. They usually need specialized training in behavior management and benefit greatly from parent support groups. Parents often find that approaches to raising that work well with ch...
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Alternative Treatment To Drug Addiction
1,495 wordsAmericans have a complicated war other than the one in the Middle East to be concerned about. , a war that has gone on much longer -the war on drugs. According to a study at Brown University, if the current rate of people who have been incarcerated for drug violations continues, there will be more Americans in prison than out by the year 2053 (Alter 38). What many people do not realize is that drug addiction is a disease and if not treated properly this disease will continue to spread. When a pe...
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Borderline Personality Disorder Mental Health Services
1,609 wordsBorderline personality disorder "is defined in the DSM IV, a manual used by psychiatrists to diagnose all mental disorders, as an AXIS II disorder which has symptoms of impulsively and emotional dys regulation" (Livesley 146). A person with BPD have feelings of abandonment and emptiness, and have "frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, going to extremes to keep someone from leaving" (Burger 300). He or she is emotionally unstable and forms intense but unstable interpersonal relationships. They sh...
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Infected With Hiv Living With Hiv
1,769 words... st most young men had sex with women of their own age or younger, over 28 % of young girls said they has sex with older men. As a result, HIV rates are five times higher in girls than boys aged 15 - 19 in Trinidad and Tobago, and at one surveillance centre for pregnant women in Jamaica, girls in their late teens had almost twice the prevalence rate of older women. AIDS is now high on the agendas of many governments in this region, as they are beginning to notice the significant impact of the...
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Children And Adolescents Signs And Symptoms
1,402 wordsAbstract Two percent of preteens and five percent of adolescents suffer from depression (web 2004). There are specific signs and symptoms associated with depression, which are helpful in detection of the illness. There are various ways to treat depression, such as medication, group therapy, and / or herbal supplements. There are pros and cons with each treatment, but the worst coincides with the medication -suicide. Much research has been conducted, which will be discussed in the paper that has ...
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Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Selective Serotonin Reuptake
1,295 words... ease (see Chorea); strokes in the frontal part of the brain; and certain viral infections, such as hepatitis and mononucleosis. Certain medications, such as steroids, may also cause depression. B Psychological Factors Psychological theories of depression focus on the way people think and behave. In a 1917 essay, Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud explained melancholia, or major depression, as a response to loss-either real loss, such as the death of a spouse, or symbolic loss, such as the ...
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Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
1,516 wordsIS RITALIN OVERPRESCRIBED? Stimulant medications such as Ritalin have received some bad press over the years. Because of lack of accurate information, parents are understandably fearful of side effects. Ritalin has been studied carefully for the last 20 to 30 years. The two most commonly mentioned side effects of Ritalin are loss of appetite and sleep problems. Irritability and weight loss are the next most often reported symptoms. Approximately half of the children in one study who took Ritalin...
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Past Few Years Hours Per Week
1,669 wordsOver the past few weeks I have been researching my interests, values, and goals. Throughout this research a lot of things that were already evident to me, were proven for a fact. My interests included researching different aspects of science and data analysis. Analysis has always been a big part of my life because I analyze everything. My values have been proven to be centered toward helping people and being around people. These interests and values are almost equivalent with what my goals in li...
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Manic Depressive Illness American Psychological Association
2,704 wordsAccording to the American Psychological Association over 17 million Americans have depression (Par. 1). Depression is triggered by many things; whatever the trigger, it is much more than a simple case of the blues. Depression is a serious illness that can take a terrible toll on victims and families if left untreated. With proper treatment the disease can be minimized or even eliminated. Everyone feels sad or blue sometimes. But when an upsetting event occurs, Feelings of sorrow usually subside ...
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Symptoms Of Depression Children And Adolescents
1,836 wordsEach year some thirty thousand Americans die by their own hand, most of them as a result of depression or bipolar. The true figure is probably many times higher. Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tend to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore, it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide is now responsible for more deaths in youth? s aged 15 to ...
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Low Blood Pressure Symptoms Of Depression
2,478 wordsMental disorders are becoming more prevalent in today? s society as people add stress and pressure to their daily lives. The elderly population is not eliminated as a candidate for a disorder just because they may be retired. In fact, mental disorders affect 1 in 5 elderly people. One would think that with disorders being rather prevalent in this age group that there would be an abundance of treatment programs, but this is not the case. Because the diagnosis of an individual? s mental state is s...
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Money To Pay Eudora Welty
1,959 wordsIn? A Worn Path? Eudora Welty? s plot is not all that clear in the beginning of her short story, but progresses as her character carries on against all of the overwhelming forces against her. In this short story a black elderly woman, Phoenix Jackson, must overcome the odds against her as she valiantly travels through many obstacles in order to contribute to the wellness of her grandson, for whom she is making this trip down? a worn path. ? It is at this point that all of Welty? s readers? heart...
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South Africa Seek Medical
942 wordsMalaria is a potentially fatal illness of tropical and subtropical regions. The disease is caused by a parasite which is transmitted to human beings bitten by infected mosquitoes. The disease is widespread in Africa, and over one million people die of malaria every year on the continent. WHICH AREAS HARBOUR MALARIA? Within South Africa's borders the disease is encountered mainly in northern and eastern Mpumalanga, northern Kwa-Zulu Natal, and the border areas of the Northern and North West provi...
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Diagnosed With Schizophrenia Antipsychotic Medications
1,050 wordsSchizophrenia Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness characterized by a variety of symptoms, including loss of contact with reality, bizarre behavior, disorganized thinking and speech, decreased emotional expressiveness, and social withdrawal. This illness affects those parts of the mind that are fundamental to a persons sense of self. It changes a persons perception of reality, through hallucinations and delusions. This mental illness is diagnosed in about one person in every 100. Schizophren...
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Diagnosed With Schizophrenia Antipsychotic Medications
1,039 wordsSchizophrenia is a severe mental illness characterized by a variety of symptoms, including loss of contact with reality, bizarre behavior, disorganized thinking and speech, decreased emotional expressiveness, and social withdrawal. This illness affects those parts of the mind that are fundamental to a persons sense of self. It changes a persons perception of reality, through hallucinations and delusions. This mental illness is diagnosed in about one person in every 100. Schizophrenia has been ca...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Tourette Syndrome
772 wordsTourette Syndrome, commonly called TS, is an interested brain disorder. Some characteristics of TS are uncontrollable body movements known as tics and uncontrollable vocal noises. All ethnic groups are affected and men are three to four times more likely to have it than women. Symptoms vary from press to person and also vary in how severe they are. Research into causes is ongoing and there is no known cure. Conditions associated with Tourette's include obsessive compulsive disorder, learning dis...
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