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    Effects of Early Deprivation on the Development of Institutionalised Children Abstract Deprivation is defined as a reduced fulfillment of an essential desire or need. Studies on the development of children reared in institutions and orphanages help us to look at the effects of deprivation. Institutionalised children are reported to perform poorly on intelligence tests and to be slow learners with specific difficulties in language and

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    care include and problems we are facing include ; development of the integrated care models, increase in suicide rates among adolescents, shortage of availability of child psychiatrist resulting in expanded role of the pediatricians in treating children with mental illness We have made changes to our outpatient clinical care curriculum with the aim of providing psychiatry residents with the skills to treat chronically ill children in an immersive, collaborative and multidisciplinary environment

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    Annotated Bibliography Ban, Els Van Den, et al. “Association between ADHD drug use and injuries among children and adolescents.” European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 23, no. 2, Apr. 2013, pp. 95–102. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s00787-013-0432-8. Ban’s article is about comparing the risk of injury between children who take attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug and children without ADHD drug use. The result shows that children using ADHD drugs are hospitalized due to injury almost

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    Prenatal Child Stress

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    Beijers, R., Buitelaar, J., deWeerth, C. (2014) Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Prenatal Psychosocial Stress on Child Outcomes Beyond the HPA Axis. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Volume23, Issue 10. Maternal stress might also cause stress to the fetus. Previous theories suggested levels of increased cortisol transferred from the mother to the fetus might cause prenatal psychosocial stress. Researchers suggest increased cortisol alone has minimal impact on the fetus. They speculate

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    begins in adolescence, there are more positive outcomes when treated. These individuals usually do not display anti-social personality traits in adulthood. In addition the male-female ratio is lower than the childhood type. Lastly, the people with adolescent onset type have more normal peer relationships(4). One closely related disorder to conduct disorder is oppositional defiant disorder. This is a disorder usually seen in children younger than 10 years. It is characterized by a pattern of frequent

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    in the field of mental health and has been shown to effect individuals struggling with many other coinciding mental health issues (Klonsky, 2007). Mental Health practitioners have serious concerns regarding the ethical and effective treatment of adolescents struggling with issues related to self-injurious behaviors and the risk factors related to self-harm. When untreated these behaviors can lead to unintentional suicide and as a result it is of utmost importance that mental health professionals approach

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    The Effects of Divorce on Children As a child, there are many things that affect a view, memory, opinion, or attitude. Children have many of their own daily struggles to cope with, as peer pressures are an example. As an adult, we sometimes forget what it is like to be a child dealing with some of the childhood pressures. Many parents do not realize how something like divorce could possibly affect their children as much as it does themselves. As the case may be, children are strongly affected

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    Youth Suicide

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    [AFSP], 2010; National Center for Health Statistics [NCHS],2006) The reduction of adolescent suicide is one of the major objectives of the Healthy People 2010 Initiative (Department of Health and Human Services, 2010). Scope

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    Adolescents have to face challenges because they are still developing, yet at times are treated as fully developed human beings. J. D. Salinger explores the thoughts of an adolescent in his book, The Catcher in the Rye, showing Holden Caulfield’s perspective of the world. Holden Caulfield shows symptoms of mental illness because he is constantly depressed by everything, beyond what a normal adolescent should be feeling. Holden shows signs of depression because he is, shockingly, depressed. He cannot

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    2009). These forms of violence can be perpetrated by a victims home, community or school, with majority of children knowing the perpetrator(s). These experiences with violence whether primary or secondary, can cause serious psychological trauma to a child and in worst case scenarios death. The 2009 survey by the Department of Justice also found that children exposed to any form of violence were more likely to engage in violence in the future and almost forty percent of these children were exposed to

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