Child and adolescent psychiatry

life (Tantum & Prestwood, 1999). In accordance with a study sampling children between 7 and 13 years of age (Vickerstaff, Heriot, Wong, Lopes & Dossetor, 2006), it is hypothesized that adolescents on the autism spectrum with high IQ will be more likely to experience depression. participants will be 50 adolescents between 13 and 18 years of age formally diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. participants will complete the depression related questions from the depression anxiety stress scale (DASS)

Primary care provider’s challenges in assessing patients with the mental health diagnosis Lidija Petrovic-Dovat, M.D. 1, Cheston Milton Berlin, Jr., M.D. 2 1 Department of Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 2 Department of Pediatrics, Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, Hershey, Pennsylvania In the United States, regardless of geographic location, 37% and 39% of children will have a behavioral or emotional disorder diagnosed by 16 years of age but there is

recent case findings and statistics prove that this is not necessarily true. Although some teenage suicides may be the result of youthful and impulsive actions, certain risk factors, signs, and symptoms can contribute to self-inflicted death in adolescents. For instance, the gender of a teenager plays a role in their overall risk of self-inflicted death. A recent study shows the suicide rates of teenage boys as being fifty-seven out of a million, but the teenage girl

Alcoholism in the Workplace In the United States, 17.6 million people – about one in every 12 adults, abuse alcohol or are alcohol dependent. (NIH: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 2012) The Mayo Clinic defines alcoholism as a chronic disease in which your body becomes dependent on alcohol (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2010), and indicates that more than 100,000 Americans die annually from alcohol related causes (Johnson) . Aside from the physical problems that alcohol addiction can

within their community, their moral values and ethics are lacking, as well as a breakdown of security and reality in general. This is known to cause vulnerability to traumatic stress illnesses and other related behavioral and academic abnormalities. Child maltreatment such as physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect, intimate partner violence (IPV), household dysfunction such as mental illness, alcohol/drug abuse, and criminal behavior are all family-based traumatic events which

P., Watts, L., & Griffiths, J. (2011). Anger management groups for adolescents:

This paper examines the various symptoms of Separation Anxiety Disorder among children and adolescents, the refusal of children diagnosed with Separation Anxiety Disorder to go to school, and the treatments that are used to treat this disorder. Studies have shown that Separation Anxiety Disorder is the third most common anxiety disorder among children. Symptoms are fairly easy to recognize, but must be addressed quickly. Refusal to go to school is one of the most significant consequences of this

Children and ADHD Medications What is attention deficit hyper disorder? ADHD is a “chronic condition that affects pre-school or very young school children (Zivkovic 3822). ADHD symptoms are difficulty sustaining attention, impulsive behavior and hyper activity (3822). There was a research conducted by Cordest hat ADHD prevails in 3 to 5% of preschoolers and is more common in boys than in girls (3822). Children as young as three and four years of age are being diagnosed with ADHD and are being

Introduction: Definition: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a “persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that is more frequently displayed and more severe than is typically observed in individuals at a comparable level of development”. (1) Excessively hyperactive, inattentive and disruptive children have been described in literature since the nineteenth century. (2) Despite this, ADHD has only been recognised as a mental health condition since the 1960s,

Foster & Robb. 2007). Based on DSM-IV testing of 11,422 adults for ADHD in 10 countries in the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East, the estimates of worldwide adults ADHD prevalence average 3.4% (Fayyad et al. 2007). United States Children and Adolescents Examination of parent-reported data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) 2011-2013 found the following (pastor et al. 2015): • 9.5% of children of ages 4-17 years were ever diagnosed with ADHD o 2.7% of children ages 4-5 o 9.5 % of