A professional has to be careful when diagnosing a child with FAS because there are many other psychological, medical, and psychiatric disorders that can be easily confused with FAS. These disorders can be identified by conducting a complete history assessment on the child. Diagnosing FAS depends on a combination of behavioral, psychological, and physical test (Buckley, Budacki,Ismail, Gallicano, & Jabbar,
This is so that these barriers do not put a strain on the partnership and relationship parents and practitioners have. Barriers can lead to the parents becoming more emotional such as anger or show distress about it. Leading onto more prejudice attitudes and having different expectations on rules. It can all spiral out of control if not stopped, which not the help the child would reach their full potential as the child is the main focus, as their wellbeing is one of the most crucial part (paramount) while in the setting. Barriers come in many forms, such as when key persons are doing observations and planning.
The LSCB (having been contacted by the setting) would also consider whether a Serious Case Review should be conducted where: a child sustains a potentially life-threatening injury or serious and permanent impairment of health and development through abuse or neglect; or a child has been subjected to particularly serious Sexual Abuse; or a parent has been murdered and a homicide review is being initiated; or a child has been killed by a parent with a mental illness; or the case gives rise to concerns about inter-agency working to protect children from harm. The purpose of Serious Case Reviews carried out under this guidance is to: establish whether there are lessons to be learnt from the case about the way in which local professionals and organisations work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children; identify clearly what those lessons are, how they will be acted on, and what is expected to change as a result; and as a consequence, improve inter-agency working and better safeguard and promote the welfare of
| | | | 1/28/2014 | | 1. If you had the opportunity to conduct a study, what would you want to study? I would want to do a study on Bipolar and the cause and the effect of what it does to the patient and those around them. I would also like to know the different stages that Bipolar have and is there any cure for it at all. A.
Use professional judgement to decide on the appropriate course of action. In some cases, it may be sufficient to empathise and give an opinion about the significance of their drinking and other related issues that may arise. In other cases, more intensive counselling and support may be needed. If there is a reason to believe that there is a significant risk of alcoholrelated harm, consider referral to child and adolescent mental health services, social care or to young people’s alcohol services for treatment, as appropriate and available. Ensure discussions are sensitive to the child or young person’s age and their ability to understand what is involved, their emotional maturity, culture, faith and beliefs.
In a patient with paranoid schizophrenia, they may be suffering with positive symptoms such as command auditory hallucinations of an aggressive nature, increasing the likely risk of becoming violent (Balaratnasingam, 2011). Many different tools are used to formulate a risk assessment. Different services may have different policies and procedures to formulate a risk assessment. Risk assessments are utilised to focus on the patient’s individual needs. Risk assessments are also designed to manage and identify areas of concern, either to the patient or health professional’s involved in the care of the patient.
037.1 Understand about different substances, their effects and how they might be used. In my role as a social care worker i am coming into contact more and more with service users who have mental health problems who are also substance users. The reason for such dependency and their particular drug of choice is reliant to some extent on what their diagnoses is and what sort of effects they are looking for. If people are trying to block out negative thoughts and feelings they may be using a particular substance that can do this, such as for someone with depression they could be using a stimulant such as amphetamine which could give them a feeling of increased energy and euphoria that they may not have experienced for some time. Such a drug as an amphetamine can be categorised as a psychoactive drug which basically means it affects brain functioning, changes behaviour, mood, perception and/or consciousness.
Education is important with this form of treatment so clients can recognize how different factors affect the course of the disease and what they can do to manage these factors (Steinkuller and Rheineck 342). Family therapy is also a means of treatment where family members as well as the client see a mental health provider to find solutions and ways to deal with the disorder. Family involvement provides structure and could increase adherence to treatment leading to delays or reductions in relapses (Steinkuller and Rheineck 342). Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy involves stabilizing social and circadian rhythms based on the hypotheses that unstable daily routines result in increased bipolar episodes in individuals prone to them (Steinkuller and Rheineck 349). Social rhythm therapy recognizes the need for regular sleep/wake cycles, regulation of meals, exercise, sleep and plans for keeping rhythms stable when disruptions occur.
The main problem that will be focused on at first is Bradley’s sexual inappropriate behavior. This is due to it being the most concerning problem, and it will provide a good therapeutic base to work off of. It is important to first address the disturbed feelings Bradley has and how those feelings are evident through his behaviors and thoughts. To address his sexual inappropriateness, Bradley will need to be taught about victim empathy. To be able to work on understanding his sexual inappropriateness, Bradley will first need to recognize how it affects others and be able to view his behaviors from the victim’s point of view.
Keywords: Adolescence –Substance abuse-Family-Peers-School. Drugs, is any chemical substance or natural origin that changes in the way humans perceive their environment. They are divided into broad categories, depending on their action in the Central Nervous System: The sedatives, stimulants and hallucinogens. Many drugs, however, are used occasionally for therapeutic purposes. We will be concerned with what nowadays is often abused.