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TOPIC 14 DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE

TOPIC 14 DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE. ATTETION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER Is characterized by difficulties that interfere with effective task-oriented behavior in children. OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER AND CONDUCT DISORDER

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TOPIC 14 DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE

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  1. TOPIC 14 DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE

  2. ATTETION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER • Is characterized by difficulties that interfere with effective task-oriented behavior in children. • OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER AND CONDUCT DISORDER • Involves a child’s or adolescent’s relationship to social norms and rules of conduct. • ANXIETY DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE • Children with anxiety disorder tend to be oversensitive, have unrealistic fears, are shy and timid, have pervasive feelings of inadequacy, sleep disturbance and fear school.

  3. CHILDHOOD DEPRESSION • Includes behaviors such as withdrawal, crying, avoidance of eye contact, physical complaints, poor appetite, and even aggressive behavior and in some cases suicide. • AUTISM • Is a mental disorder that involves a wide range of problematic behaviors including deficits in language, perceptual and motor development; defective reality testing and inability function in social settings.

  4. LEARNING DISABILITES • Refers to retardation, disorder, or delayed development, may be manifested in language, speech, mathematical or motor skills and it is not due to any reliably demonstrable physical or neurological • MENTAL RETARDATION • Is defined as significantly subversive age general intellectual functioning that is accompanied by significant limitations in adaptive functioning in certain skill areas such as self-care, work, health and safety

  5. TOPIC 15 CONTEMPORARY AND LEGAL ISSUES

  6. PERSPECTIVE ON PREVENTION • Universal interventions • Efforts that are aimed at influencing the general population • Selective interventions • Efforts that are aimed at a specific subgroup of the population considered at risk for developing mental health problems • Indicated intervention • Efforts that are directed to high risk individuals who are indentified as having minimal but detectable symptoms disorder but who do not meet the criteria for mental disorder

  7. CONTROVERSIAL LEGAL ISSUES AND THE MENTALLY DISORDERED • Important court decision for patient rights • The commitment process • The duty to protect • The insanity defense

  8. ORGANIZED EFFORTS FOR MENTAL HEALTH • EFFORSTS FOR MENTAL HEALTH • Professional Organizations and Mental Health • The role of volunteer organizations and agencies • Mental health resources in private industry • INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS FOR MENTAL HEALTH • The world health organization • The world federation for mental health

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