Arthritis in young people is a big problem because although approximately 294,000 children under the age of 18 are affected by paediatric arthritis and rheumatologic conditions many people are not aware that arthritis can affect young people. Dr Peter Prouse, consultant rheumatologist at North Hampshire Hospital, says that ‘Doctors often miss cases of arthritis in children,'. He says that ‘it reflects the amount of training that many doctors get with rheumatic diseases. In a course of five years, many medical students will have only two weeks training in rheumatology. It has been a neglected speciality for a very long time.'
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.
Trauma nurses can provide information on proper use after an incident, but it is L&D nurses, NICU nurses, and pediatric nurses who can truly educate and influence parents in the proper use of child passenger safety devices. Upon discharge from delivery of my son just two years ago, the hospital failed to provide any information on proper safety, nor did any nurse take the time to educate me on proper use of our seat and to make sure my son was properly restrained. It is unfortunate to learn of all the instances where a
The researchers found children who were spanked as 1-year-olds tended to behave more aggressively at age 2, and didn’t perform as well as other children on a test measuring thinking skills at age 3. Children’s Hospital Boston’s Jayne Singer, PhD, clinical director of the Child and Parent Program and a clinical psychologist for the Brazelton Touchpoints Center says, “The results of the study make sense. Spanking a child does show the child that the parent is bigger and stronger and can take control of the child. But, it doesn’t show the child how to learn to develop control of themselves. Spanking may stop the child then and there, but there’s a cost emotionally and cognitively to a child, and over the long run, it doesn’t usually lead to the child learning not to repeat the behavior that resulted in the spanking in the first place.
Bowlby had conducted a test, to test his theory. He had used 44 children who were thieves and 44 children who were not thieves all of these children had been referred to the clinic. To carry out this test he had interviewed the children and their families in order to build up a record of their early life experiences. He had found that: * 32% of the thieves were describes as affectionless psychopaths * None of the control group were diagnosed * 86% who were diagnosed as affectionless psychopaths had suffered maternal deprivation for at least a
Scenario: Jane Doe is a wife and mother of three children. She brings her three children to the pediatrician office at least twice a week. At first it was sick visits then the doctor started to realize that the children had bruises on them. The doctor did not say anything at first about it because she was not 100% sure that
The psychotropic medications have often not been tested thoroughly on children or approved by the FDA for children’s use. Some of the medications that have obtained FDA approval have questionable reliability because their primary funding source for the research was pharmaceutical companies or their affiliates. Because of these and many other reasons, there is a social dilemma in our society over whether or not to medicate children for their problem behaviors or due to a mental health diagnosis. Using the Six-Step Policy Anaylsis Framework (Jansson, 2008), this paper will explore the available research on the effects of medications on children. The research and other available resources will be examined to see how current research findings and practice, and future research topics may be used to develop new policy on prescribing psychotropic medications to children.
A group of case reports of microbial keratitis in orthokeratology lens wearers was inconclusive regarding the risk involved in orthokeratology. The incidence of microbial keratitis in orthokeratology patients could not be concluded for several reasons as the lack of accurate data regarding the total number of patients wearing the lenses, patient compliance and lens materials (86.). Most of the patients in this study were Asians between the ages of 9 and 15 (86). Orthokeratology lenses are often prescribed for children In these countries, with the hope that they may slow the development of myopia (86). Out of fifty only three cases were from the United States.
* Physical neglect is the failure to provide for a child's physical survival needs to the extent that there is harm or risk of harm to the child's health or safety. Tennessee Department of Children’s Services receives over 37,000 reports of child abuse or neglect each year. More than 100 children are reported abused or neglected every day. (Department of Children's Services, 2012) Making the decision to report suspected child abuse may be difficult, however it is of great importance. “In most jurisdictions, child protective service (CPS) agencies rely on such reports to open investigations concerning possible child abuse and to begin interventions aimed at protecting the involved child or children, while possibly bringing the perpetrator into the criminal justice system.” (Carleton, 2006) For psychologists
In 1994, when I studied special needs issues during graduate courses, the text(s) included a few pages of information and instruction on Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). I am bewildered by the lack of exposure because Autism is not a modern problem. With considering the short history of psychiatry and even the shorter history of child development and child psychiatry, I may shed some clear understanding on my puzzlement. Also when I think about historical viewpoints of the 1800’s and early 1900’s, occurrences of children displaying any form of dysfunction were seen as devil children; these children were discarded, hidden, and sometimes but to death. By 1911, Eugene Bleuler, a Swiss Psychiatrist, brought more understanding by introducing the term autism, meaning "living in self” to describe self-absorption due to poor social relatedness in