07th March 2011
Learning Disorders
Approximately 5 percent of students in public schools are determined as having some type ofLearning Disorder. The diagnosis is usually made in the early grades of elementary school when the specific deficits in acquiring basic ...
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06th March 2011
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Obsessions are extremely upsetting and anxiety-provoking thoughts that are completely foreign to your usual sense of self and what you should be wondering about. Obsessions seem to come from nowhere, are outside...
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23rd February 2011
Characteristics of Depression In Children
You can see that times of depressed mood make up a normal part of your child's life. You even expect such periods at times of stress or change, especially following such serious losses as the death of a lo...
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23rd February 2011
Panic Attacks
Anyone that has ever had an unexpected panic attack will virtually certainly never forget the sudden and scaring burst of symptoms, both physical and psychological. It feels as if you were in a small cage with a large hungry tiger only ...
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22nd February 2011
Panic Attacks
Anyone that has ever had an unexpected panic attack will nearly certainly never forget the sudden and scaring burst of symptoms, both physical and psychological. It feels as if you were in a small cage with a large hungry tiger – only ...
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19th February 2011
Treatment for Depression in Teenagers / Adolescents
As a rule, teenagers or adolescents with depression do not respond to parental attempts to encourage them to think positively. Teenagers and adolescents very often necessitate professional help fro...
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19th February 2011
Treatment for Depression in Teenagers / Adolescents
As a rule, teenagers or adolescents with depression do not respond to parental attempts to encourage them to think positively. Teenagers and adolescents very often require professional help from a p...
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18th February 2011
Social interaction in autism
Autism is undoubtedly one of the most heartbreaking problems ever to encounter a family. The birth of a child is usually the gleeful and most expectant of moments - unless the baby fails to grow the usual behaviors t...
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18th February 2011
Social interaction in autism
Autism is undoubtedly one of the most heartbreaking problems ever to face a family. The birth of a child is usually the joyous and most expectant of moments - unless the baby fails to grow the usual behaviors that ...
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17th February 2011
Attention Deficit and Hyperactive Disorder
The diagnosis of ADHD is challenging because the symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity are so ubiquitous in the general population. The fact is that most people would love to calm down and think bett...
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16th February 2011
Anxiety in Children
Parents often think over if their children with anxiety will outgrow their anxiety or if they will get worse over time. Some anxious children, if encouraged to face their fears, develop contending skills on their own as they ma...
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14th February 2011
Anorexia Nervosa
Our culture overrates thinness, causing the line between beauty and eating disorder to become hard to draw. This is particularly baffling among those girls and young women that participate in activities that demand extreme thinne...
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14th February 2011
Anorexia Nervosa
Our culture overestimates thinness, causing the line between beauty and eating disorder to become hard to draw. This is particularly problematic among those girls and young women that participate in activities that demand extreme ...
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31st January 2011
By definition, psychologists define a Personality Disorder as present only if your personality traits are so stiff and maladaptive that they cause you major problems. Unfortunately, the boundary between average personality traits and Personality Disorder...
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01st October 2010
Traits of Adolescent Depression:
You can view that spans of depressed mood make up a normal part of your child's life. You even expect such periods at times of tension or change, specifically following such serious losses as the death of a lov...
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