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Assessment of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders
Assessment of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders It is essential to undertake a full and comprehensive assessment before embarking on treatment of the problems. It may take more than one meeting before an assessment is completed. Assessments should be carefully planned and time allowed to explore with the child and family their attitude to the […]
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The primary-care hurdle of eating disorders
The primary-care hurdle of eating disorders Epidemiological research from different European countries highlights how eating disorders are under-diagnosed in primary care. A number of different reasons seem to present potent barriers to early diagnosis and intervention. These include: •patient delay in presenting their eating problems; •doctor delay in diagnosing eating disorders at an early stage; […]
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What should be the focus of any prevention work on eating disorders?
Many risk factors are not modifiable and so they cannot be targets of any health promotion programme. Moreover there is controversy as to the effectiveness of prevention packages which have had eating disorders as their focus as some have appeared to be ineffective (irrelevant to the majority) or dangerous as there is a risk that […]
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Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS)
Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) If there are no structural brain abnormalities, then what might cause abnormal brain functioning? Recently, there has been increased speculation that at least some children who develop obsessive-compulsive disorder may do so in response to an external pathogen (in this case -hemolytic streptococcal infection). Studies of […]
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Different OCD Disorders and Types of OCD Disorders
Types of OCD Disorders Comorbidity, Differential Diagnosis, and the Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders OCD is frequently accompanied by increased levels of anxiety and depression; estimates of coexistent disorders range from 42–83% . Despite these high rates of overlap with other disorders, the diagnosis of OCD can be made quite reliably, particularly when behavioral compulsions are present. […]
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substance abuse and dependence disorders
Substance abuse refers to the overuse of alcohol and/ or drugs that results in harmful physical, social, legal, or interpersonal consequences; substance dependence is marked by continued use of alcohol or other drugs, despite these consequences. The WHO has argued that an individual’s cultural context must be considered when diagnosing an alcohol problem. For a […]
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Biomedical Approach about mental disorders
Biomedical Approach about mental disorders In contrast, the biomedical perspective, shared primarily by mainstream psychiatrists and psychologists, views the cause of mental disorders as physical dysfunction, such as biochemical or anatomical defects. From this standpoint, internal symptoms are the defining aspects of mental illness. Culture may influence the content of specific symptoms (e.g., the religious […]
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Anxiety Disorders articles about related to application
Application to Anxiety Disorders In an interesting extrapolation to psychopathology, McNaughton and Gray attribute GAD to excessive output from the SHS. Underscoring the information processing aspects of the SHS, they describe GAD as primarily a cognitive disorder that involves an excessive perception of threat and a subsequent suppression of approach and excessive avoidance of threat. […]
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mood and anxiety disorders in men
The results of recent twin studies of mood and anxiety disorder symptoms across the life span suggest some differences in the etiology of these symptoms in childhood versus adulthood. Only a few twin studies hav been conducted with children and adolescents, so we will begin with a review of the more extensive adult findings. We […]
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schizophrenia spectrum disorders definition
Schizophrenia is a familial disorder and that genetic influences are involved in the clustering of schizophrenia in families. The liability to schizophrenia seems to be manifested in families not only through the occurrence of the classical disorder, but through other related phenotypes as well. That is, the predisposition to schizophrenia may be expressed in a […]
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