The onset of stuttering occurs usually during stressful situations in a child’s life. For many, certain life events are thought to "trigger" fluency difficulty. A drastic change in the family, criticism and embarrassment can start the whole journey of a person in becoming a stutterer. Those children will hold on to this speech disorder as a lifelong struggle. Perkins (1983, 1990, 1996) has discussed the possibility that “loss of control” is a key aspect in defining stuttering and that a “disfluency” becomes a stutterer when the child experiences lack of control.
The problems related to assessing and classifying / diagnosing 16 to 20 year olds with patterns of impulsivity, instability in interpersonal relationships, self image and affect. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 THE GENERAL CHALLENGES OF DIANOSING AND ASSESSING ADOLESCENTS WITH PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1 3 WHAT IS BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER? 2 3.1 Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder and how it presents itself 2 3.2 The general diagnosing issues specifically surrounding Borderline Personality Disorder 3 4 ADOLESCENTS AND BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER 4 4.1 Why are adolescents susceptible to being mistakenly diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder? 4 4.2 Over diagnosing and under
Disruptive Behavior Disorders are often diagnosed during early childhood and associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. (Felix, 2004). The Disruptive Behavior Disorders are the most common psychiatric disorder of childhood, with a prevalence of 4-9% of the entire pediatric population. (Felix, 2004) Disruptive Behavior Disorders in children are characterized by poor social relationships due to extremes of aggressiveness, lying, defiance, irritability, blaming others, cruelty, stealing, destructiveness, and rage. ( Keith,n.d)The child has show some of these symptoms, and that has cause me to worry about him.
The findings appear to point to multiple reasons for the development of this disorder. Regardless of the cause, the effects can have a detrimental impact on both the individual and the family throughout a lifetime. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is classified into three subtypes: Predominantly hyperactive-impulsive, predominantly inattentive, and combined hyperactive-impulsive and inattentive (Foley, 2011). The majority of children diagnosed with ADHD are in the third subtype which exhibits both hyperactivity and inattentiveness (Foley, 2011) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) states nine different behaviors associated with ADHD which are failing to pay close attention to details or making careless mistakes, having difficulty sustaining attention, not listening, not following through, having difficulty organizing, having low task persistence, losing things, being easily distracted, being forgetful, fidgeting, being out
Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) is a disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorder. The criteria for this disorder consist of a series of items indexing a lifelong pattern of overt antisocial acts plus traits of impulsivity, irritability and remorselessness (De Brito and Hodgins 2009). As with all personality disorder diagnoses, the person has to be eighteen or older, however ASPD requires evidence that a similar disorder existed in childhood (conduct disorder (CD) prior to the age of fifteen). These children may exhibit behavior such as a failure to conform to social norms, reckless disregard for the safety of self and others, and traits of impulsivity or failure to plan ahead, irritability, irresponsibility, as well as lack of remorse (De Brito and Hodgins 2009). ASPD is similar to Dissocial Personality Disorder (DSPD) and psychopathy.
According to www.justgreatadvice.com, a mixed episode is being both happy and sad, up and down, all at the same time. Generally, this translates into the patient being very depressed emotionally, but displaying symptoms of mania such as inability to concentrate and lack of sleep. The other main type of bipolar disorder is bipolar type II. Bipolar type II is depressive episodes shifting back and forth with hypomanic episodes, but no full-blown manic or mixed episodes. I like to think that a person that has bipolar type II is always “in between” highs and lows or back and forth.
Week 2 Assignment: The First Three Years Of Development A child’s brain learns a lot in the first three years of life including learning the environment around him or her and how to walk and talk (Broderick & Blewitt, 2015). Parenting styles affect the way a child grows including the income levels of the parents (Lugo-Gil & Tamis-LeMonda, 2008). The Zero to Three movement was developed to explain that the first three years in a child’s life are the most important to development (Zero to Three, 2012). This paper will be discussing the zero to three myth, how the myth can be interpreted, and how a child’s first three years impact changes over the lifespan. Myth of The First Three Years The myth of the first three years can be explained by the emphasis of the first three years of a child’s life as being the most important to cognitive development.
Discuss the problems related with identifying and diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder 1. INTRODUCTION The aim of this paper is to discuss the multitude of problems that complicate the identification and diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder. New Research on Borderline Personality Disorder is lagging far behind other disorders and the figures indicate that many cases still go undiagnosed which implies many cases never get the proper treatment they deserve (Gunderson, 2009 and Meyerson in Phend, 2009). 2. BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER DEFINED 2.1 Define Personality Disorder A Personality Disorder can be “characterized by inflexible, long standing, and maladaptive personality traits that cause significant functional impairment”
Children with ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, will face many obstacles in their lives. The characteristics of the disorder effect their every day lives to such a degree that they will have a difficult time in overall success. They will experience hyperactivity, inattentiveness, and impulsivity. The situations and conditions cause such great conflict between the children, families, and teachers that the conditions need careful evaluation for proper treatment. Over the past few years much question has arose about the proper diagnosis and treatment of children with ADHD.
Depressive disorders, which include major depressive disorder (unipolar depression), dysthymic disorder (chronic, mild depression), and bipolar disorder (manic-depression), can have far reaching effects on the functioning and adjustment of young people. Among both children and adolescents, depressive disorders confer an increased risk for illness and interpersonal and psychosocial difficulties that persist long after the depressive episode is resolved; in adolescents there is also an increased risk for substance abuse and suicidal behavior 1,2,3. Unfortunately, these disorders often go unrecognized by families and physicians alike. Signs of depressive disorders in young people often are viewed as normal mood swings typical of a particular developmental