Over the past few years much question has arose about the proper diagnosis and treatment of children with ADHD. Many times children without ADHD have been treated for experiencing the same characteristics of a child with ADHD even though not to the same degree. The decision to treat medically is an ethical decision as well as medical. The treatment for ADHD is most often psychotropic drugs like Ritalin, Adderal, and Concerta. These drugs are effective for ADHD, but it has been prescribed for more children than was predicted to even be diagnosed.
Rambunctious children unable to focus on a task or sit still for an extended period of time used to be criticized for a lack of discipline and will power. These children previously called "wild" and "out of control," may be suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ADHD was virtually unknown 15 years ago, but now "is the most common behavioral disorder in American children." This recent surge in the "popularity" has `given some doctors cause for concern. Is ADHD the latest "fad" in the medical community or is it a truly a widespread affliction whose scope is just now being discovered?
Characteristics of Successful Programs Addiction is a complex but treatable disease that affects brain function and behavior. Drugs of abuse alter the brain’s structure and function, resulting in changes that persist long after drug use has ceased. This may explain why drug abusers are at risk for relapse even after long periods of abstinence and despite the potentially devastating consequences. No single treatment is appropriate for everyone. Treatment varies depending on the type of drug and the characteristics of the patients.
Discuss some of the issues surrounding the classification and diagnosis of schizophrenia Classification is a scientific way of putting similar things into certain categories and diagnosis is a way to identify illness by signs and symptoms. There are many issues when it comes to the diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia as it is a complicated disorder that affects around 1% of the population and has many different symptoms. Diagnosing any mental illness can be very difficult as there is a lot to take into consideration and the final decision can only be based on symptoms. Mental illness cannot be tested like normal physical illnesses. With things like diabetes, cancer and so on, the illness can be diagnosed by scans or blood tests.
B. Thesis: ADHD is a Chronic Disorder of the Central Nervous System that causes problems with attention spans Attention Deficit Disorder is one of the most commonly diagnosed behavioral disorders Transition: Let’s begin to learn about the existence of attention deficit hyperactive disorder A. Does Attention Deficit Disorder Exist? YES! According to scientific evidence all of the major medical associations and government health agencies recognize ADHD as a genuine disorder because the scientific evidence indicating
There are many issues when it comes to the classification and diagnosis of schizophrenia, one of them being the reliability of the major classification systems, the DSM and ICD. Early versions of the DSM were deemed unreliable, even now when the newer versions are now said to have increased reliability there is little evidence to prove that the DSM is used with high reliability by mental health clinicians. This unreliable source of diagnosis may cause some patients to be misdiagnosed and due to this misdiagnosis many terrible situations may occur, they will be mistreated and therefore will be given drugs and exercises which are completely irrelevant to what they need to do, this could cause great harm to both their physical and mental well being, the misdiagnosis can also affect how they are in real life for example they will be labelled schizophrenic and therefore will struggle with everything in life, such as getting a job or even being themselves for they believe what they have been told to be true. There is also an issue with the treatment of schizophrenia due to the significant difficulty in predicting the outcome or the response, because every case of schizophrenia is different in their own way then there is no telling what the same treatment will do to one patient in comparison with another this uncertainty clearly points out a huge point at which the diagnosis of schizophrenia is just too vague, there are many sub types and for this how can all of them be put under the same title for the same treatment... Schizophrenia is a term which is somewhat thrown around, especially by the media, misleading the general population into thinking it is a mental disorder which you should be scared of due to the delusions and hallucinations which we have been told occur all the time, this in fact is not completely true as there are many subtypes of schizophrenia, some
Opposition to vaccines has existed since the earliest vaccination campaigns. Although the benefits of preventing these diseases greatly outweigh the risks of a rare side effect, disputes have arisen over the morality, effectiveness, and safety of vaccinations (5). Concern has been raised by the spreading of unfound information about the medical risks of vaccines. This increases the rates of life threatening disease, not only in the children whose parents refused vaccinations, but also in other children. This false information has led to an increase in vaccine preventable illnesses as well as an increase in the number of vaccine preventable deaths.
The number of ADHD diagnoses is definitely increasing, in part reflecting the increased awareness by the general public and professionals alike. However, automatically labeling any high-energy, “non-compliant” child with “ADHD” is simplistic and unwise. It seems obvious to me that the "rise" of ADHD stems from two sources. Parents are obviously the first source; in our current society parents care more about themselves than their child's education. It takes time to ensure your kid’s education is on track especially if a child has fallen behind.
ADHD refers to a family of related chronic neurobiological disorders that interfere with an individual's capacity to regulate activity level (hyperactivity), inhibit behavior (impulsivity), and attend to tasks (inattention) in developmentally appropriate ways. The core symptoms of ADHD include an inability to sustain attention and concentration, developmentally inappropriate levels of activity, distractibility, and impulsivity. As its name implies, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterized by two distinct sets of symptoms: inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity.Although these problems usually occur together, one may be present without the other to qualify for a diagnosis. Inattention or attention deficit may not
ADHD and the possible causes continue to be a subject of medical research. (http://www.concerta.net) The symptoms of Attention Deficient Hyperactive Disorder include impulsiveness, inattentiveness and hyperactivity.