ADHD is one of the most common childhood disorders and can carry on through adolescence and adulthood. Symptoms include difficulty staying focused and paying attention, difficulty controlling behaviour and hyperactivity. Scientists are not sure what causes ADHD, but many studies suggest that genes are a factor. In addition to genetics, researchers are looking at possible environmental factors, and are studying how brain injuries, nutrition, and the social environment might cause ADHD. Children who have suffered a brain injury may show some behaviour similar to those of ADHD.
Stephen Barlas reports in Psychiatric Times that antidepressants are found to cause “possible suicidal ideation and suicide attempts as side effects” (2006). With these possible side effects, parents are looking at other treatment options to help their children, including the combination of antidepressants with cognitive behavioral therapy. When researching about various antidepressants, fluoxetine, also known as Prozac, offered the most relevant and conclusive data concerning its effects on adolescents, and it was the most noted antidepressant combined with cognitive behavioral therapy. This paper will examine the symptoms of adolescent depression, how using the antidepressant fluoxetine affects depression in adolescents, and the results of studies using the combination of fluoxetine and cognitive behavioral therapy to treat major depression in
In addition, this essay provides us with some of the effects of substance abuse during adolescence. Solutions of how to avoid and deal with the problem are also discussed. Substance abuse is highly associated with peer pressure, family that does not support their children, low self-esteem, curiosity and psychological pressure. These reasons if taken seriously may eliminate the risk of substance use. Keywords: Adolescence –Substance abuse-Family-Peers-School.
There are many cases of drugs abuse happened recently in our environment either it is exposed or unexposed one. Teenagers, is one of them who have done it. Just like Laurie Wilmot, LCSW, a therapist at a therapeutic wilderness programme for troubled teens, who has worked with adolescents with drug or alcohol problems for years, explained that there are some reasons why teenagers use drugs. First, they use drug to get some sort of pay-off, whether getting high helps them fit in. Second, by using drugs, they can be more confident to approach the opposite sex and the last one is that by using drugs teenagers can escape their problems as it helps them to solve problems.
The essay will discuss how children brought up in addicted households are affected and the effects on their adult lives. It also touches on how they handle their own families when they grow into adulthood. Although addiction can present itself in many different ways such as gambling, food or sexual, for the purpose of this essay the author will describe how a family is affected by substance abuse. Main Body Families that are affected by addiction can often be tense, painful and frightening experience for young children. The family can be put under a lot of stress and people’s emotions get minimized as the pain of what they live in is denied.
Behavioral Problems: Parental substance abuse can be destructive to a family and the relationship that exists within the unit. Children that are subjected to drugs as a baby has a higher risk of substance abuse, academic problems, behavior problems, and violence. Children who come from families involved with substance abuse often has impulsive behavior (Feaster, 1996). Addiction: “Alcoholism and drugs abuse in a family creates patterns in families” (Substance Abuse Training Tri-Town Head Start, 2007). Children who have parents that abused drugs or alcohol are at a much higher risk of becoming addicts.
The Drugging of Our Children Analysis Carlos Joseph Pikes Peak Community College The Drugging of Our Children Film Analysis The documentary “The Drugging of our Children” that I was able to watch was very eye opening. It really showed me the shocking growth in which the prescriptions of very strong drugs were distributed to teens and children. This documentary intends to focus on people who have been diagnosed with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, also known as ADHD. There were also many people that added their voices into the documentary including Michael Moore in which they talked about the trend that began to emerge about the behavior of these kids and having them take drugs that would apparently cure them of their problems. It is just crazy to me to think that the drugs that these kids are being prescribed are causing them to commit acts of violence upon other people or do very crazy things.
Seeing someone doing drugs makes them more curious to know how drugs will make them feel. Although substances can feel good at first, they can ultimately do a lot of harm to the body and brain. So as parent, we must always guide our kids to have a better path ahead. We need to learn how the drugs are harmful to us and explain them for kids to know to prevent them from bad
She talks about how different individuals in her article have been affected by the substances that were placed in their lives at a young age, making it hard for them to focus on the goals and morals that they had before drugs became an influence in their life. Stritesky focuses on the complex idea of adolescents not knowing the consequences of drugs in order to get readers to think about the pros and cons of using drugs. She uses appeals to pathos and different ranges of syntax in order to capture the hearts of readers through deep anecdotes of those who struggled with drugs to help emphasize. Stritesky’s style of writing fits for adolescents and young adults that are considering doing drugs in the hopes of making things better in their
The author talks about different medicines and the affects it has on children. He also talks about placebos and how they affect bipolar disorder in children. His main focus is diagnosing children and the treatments used when they are diagnosed. He states in his open paragraph, “There has been great public and academic interest in the diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorders (BD) in children and adolescents over the past decade, originally in the US but now extending internationally. Thus, in the US in the past decade, diagnoses of BD in children under 18 years old have risen 4000% in the community.