Oppositional defiant disorder

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) is characterized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th Ed.; American Psychiatric Association; 2013) by “a pattern of behavior, present in multiple settings, that can result in performance issues in social, educational, or work settings,” due to hyperactivity, inattention, or both. The three subtypes in which the diagnosis criteria is split into are: the inattentive subtype, the hyperactive-impulsive subtype, and the…

bipolar disorder, has made gracious efforts to help fund mental illness studies. His name was tarnished due to his inability to control his anger on the court, resulting in a seven game suspension.Since then he sees a psychiatrist and take proper steps to clear up his name. Most of his work includes talking about his journey at mental health hospitals. In 2012, he visited Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, in front of 13 adults and 23 children suffering with various mental health…

Talk Therapy or Psychotherapy is defined as a form of psychiatric treatment that involves therapeutic conversations and interactions between a therapist and a child or family. It can help children and families understand and resolve problems, modify behavior, and make positive changes in their lives (ACAA, 2015). This therapy provides an opportunity to be able to investigate the feelings and things that are painful to them. There are also coping skills taught with Psychotherapy. There is more…

communities in the United States and has been linked to a variety of weakened outcomes among youth and adolescents (Huston, 1994; Yoshikawa, Aber, & Beardslee, 2012).These weakened outcomes include the onset of various mental health and physical health disorders, decreased academic achievement, and higher rates of involvement in juvenile crime (Wadsworth, 2008). This paper will look further into how poverty directly and indirectly correlates to the weakened outcomes of each of these specific…

investigated the effects of psychopathology on social perception. Rather than compartmentalizing different disorders, as is often done when studying psychopathological conditions, this study wanted to consider these disorders differently, but not independently. Therefore, the researchers decided that a 2-dimensional model of mind perception was an effective way to compare and contrast the effect of these disorders on the perception of others. This 2-D model measured perception on two different…

Primary Dx: Autism Autism is a developmental disorder that makes it difficult for individuals to communicate as well as form relationships with people. People diagnosed with autism are characterized by the impairment to form normal social relationships and by stereotyped behavior patterns. In autism different areas of the brain fail to work together. Autism is the general term for a group of complex disorders of brain development. Cause: Some of the believed causes of an individual developing…

A disruptive, impulse-control and conduct disorder it is a psychological disorder which is most common on childhood and adolescence. This disorders makes the child aggressive and tend to have a not great behavior. This disorders it often seen as the precursor to an antisocial personality disorders as, they are not a diagnosed is until the child is 18 years old. They have the ability to recognize the feelings of the rest of the people. The child without a CD is unable to place themselves in other…

INTRODUCTION Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and opposition defiance disorder (ODD), separately are challenging and paired equivocates a thoroughly unrelenting challenge. ADHD affects ten percent of school age children and boys are three times more likely to be diagnosed. ODD affects one to sixteen percent of school age children, which creates a unique set of challenges for parents, children and educators alike. There are many steps to noticing and identifying symptoms for these…

Traumatic brain injuries or TBI is a blanket term for many conditions. It can be used to classify anything that causes a “bump, blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain” (“Facts about Concussion,” n.d.). It is measured by the severity of the injury which ranges from mild to moderate to severe. It is also pretty common in pediatric patients “approximately 40% of all TBIs occur in pediatric patients” (Malchiodi C, 2008). Severe TBI is…

The slender man stabbing is a violent crime committed as a result of an internet myth. The slender man was a fictitious character made ‘real’ by numerous details published in online communities. The character, sometimes referred to as Slender, is a faceless, lean and tall personality with child abduction behavior. He has a suit and tentacles growing upon his back. He is also able to read people’s minds and teleport to various places a quality that makes him available anywhere at any given time.…