Child and adolescent psychiatry

times people do not realize the lifelong damage the smallest action could have on a child. Borderline personality disorder is a topic that has been researched for a number of years now and the more research they have done the more it has progressed from just finding out what exactly this disorder is, but starting to look into what could potentially be considered a cause. Much of the research has found links between child abuse and borderline personality disorder in early adulthood all the way…

Bansal, V., Goyal, S., & Srivastava, K. (2009). Study of prevalence of depression in adolescent students in a public school. Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 18(1), 43–46. https://doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.57859 This article details an experiment conducted in 2009 to identify if adolescent depression is typically ignored and, if so, what risk factors parents and school officials can look out for. The study determined a positive correlation between “certain factors like parental fights, beating at…

Right around the time you reach your adolescent stage your body will have a heightened need for certain nutrients as well as energy. This is important because your nutrient needs during adolescence is higher than any of the subsequent stages or the previous stage. Getting the right amount of nutrients and eating healthy play a big part in your growth as well as your development which can have varying effects on your later stages in life. Throughout early adolescence teens require a lot of…

Impact of Child Psychiatrist Shortage Maintaining good grades, balancing work, keeping up with a social and family life are examples of the types of pressures today’s society puts on teens and children. There has been a rise in mental health disorders in teens and children but the numbers of psychiatrists haven’t been keeping up with this increase. Given these circumstances, it is important that children and teens have local access to psychiatrists because it would significantly help children…

Doing drugs while pregnant makes the baby lose weight. “Also if the mom of the child has a STD it can be passed down to the child if there is a vaginal birth”(Health and human services 1) .The sentence says that doing drugs while pregnant will make the baby smaller . The quote states that if teen has an STD the baby is most likely to have it too. Most teens…

The article "The Role of Traumatic Event History in Non-medical Use of Prescription Drugs among a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Adolescents" hopes to address the problem of non-medical use of prescription drugs among teens and reduce risk. The purpose of the study was to identify risk factors to aid prevention of NMUPD in adolescents. In particular, the study seeks to use previous demographic and other substance use risk factors that correlate with lifetime non-medical prescription…

disorders can serve as predictor of adolescent disruptive disorders. Evidence suggest that disruptive disorders can impact social and emotional development in preschool with a continuation through adolescence but if properly identified in…

In this article "Eating disorders are different in boys and girls", there is a break down on how the gender of a child can make a difference on how eating disorders affect them. Girls are described to link their eating disorder with mood disorder, but it is not the same for boys. While the scholarly article “Disordered Eating Precursors in Pre- and Early Adolescent Girls and Boys”, shows that the initial signs of eating disturbances and how they affect different genders. There are similarities…

Mental illness can severely impact youth’s ability to undertake school and there is very little help for these students, making adolescent mental illness a heavily minimized topic and creating a myriad of challenges for students with mental disorders. According to the Webster Dictionary, mental illness is defined as “any of a broad range of medical conditions that are marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, or emotions to impair normal psychological functioning and…

Parents should educate their children from a young age. However, physical punishment against children at any age is not the best way to educate a child. It is said that children who suffer from physical punishment from parents tend to be anti-social as they are growing up. Children have the knowledge to understand simple educational words. Parents should have child educational lessons to improve their emotional quality in order to educate their children. Physical punishment by parents on their…