Emotional and behavioral disorders in childhood and adolescence

The life of people should be built around a strong and healthy support system. At the beginning of life, were under our mothers (swaddling or being breastfed), staying connected and close to loved ones is important. The social support should start from the beginning of life into adulthood. A healthy social support is a must, not having that close feeling of love and support can impact a person negatively. A person can develop depression if they do not have that support system. Everyone has had…

Exposure to Violence and the Link to Aggression in Children At any given moment during the past two weeks, endless reports of child abuse as well domestic violence flooded the popular press. From the newspaper article on the NFL player knocking his girlfriend unconscious in a brutal assault to the ABC News report on the NFL player beating his four year old son with a “switch” to the point of drawing blood and leaving scars to the early morning news broadcast of the child abuse and…

According to the DSM-V (2013), Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is defined as a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development (DSM-V) for at least six months. ADHD has two sub-types that can present independently or combined. Inattention manifests in behavioral symptoms like difficulty sustaining attention in tasks and play activities, failure to give close attention to details or make careless mistakes,…

Sociopathy cannot be found in the DSM(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), but it 's usually referring to a person diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorders(APD), which was defined by the DSM-V as a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. Antisocial personality has appeared in the DSM since its first edition in 1952, although it was initially labelled antisocial…

like they used to or ever did. That can add strain to an individual in my opinion because they are different and they feel that added stress dealing with the illness that they have or functioning in society, for example, OCD. Obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD is a presence of recurrent, persistent, intrusive thoughts or images, and/or repetitive behaviors or mental acts that a person is…

can affect anyone. However, depression affects girls more than boys. In addition, the female preponderance in depression rates adolescence (e.g., Hankin et al., 1998). Further, there is ambiguity about whether non-Caucasians, especially African Americans, experience as large a rise or as strong an emergence of gender differences in depression as Caucasians during adolescence (e.g., Hayward, Gotlib, Schradley, & Litt, 1999; Kessler et al., 2003; Riólo, Nguyen, Greden, & King, 2005; Siegel,…

elementary years the parent’s behavior affects the child in ways such as the parent view their child as being difficult, verbal communication is decreased and the mothers struggle with controlling their child’s behavior. Later on in childhood and adolescence the behavioral effects of parental mental illness increase. The child becomes involved in parental problems and conflicts, the parent’s mental illness causes the child identification with the parent to be minimized and the parent is unable…

her heart. *Susanna: Borderline Personality Disorder- • Severe depression • Impulsive (sex, drugs, alcohol) • Intense mood swings • Lack of energy • Paranoia • Relationship…

they are a lot of things that can affect it and make us different from one another. In my research, I am going to talk about Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, also known as, ADHD, and the part of memory that it relates to. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by behavioral symptoms of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013) that affects approximately 5.9% to 7.1% of…

why the child is acting the way they are acting. An untrained eye would believe the child has ADHD; not all children who act out have ADHD. There is a disorder called Disruptive Behavior Disorder which shows almost the same sign and symptoms of ADHD (healthychildren.org, 2015 para 2). “43.5% of youth who met the criteria for Disruptive Behavior Disorder also met the criteria for ADHD at the age of 15 and/or 17 (Trentacosta, 2012 pg565 para 2)”.…