Anorexia Nervosa In Children and Adolescents 1 Anorexia Nervosa is a rapidly growing issue in today’s society. The disease is identified by the refusal to maintain a healthy weight‚ an irrational fear of gaining weight despite weighing too little‚ loss of the menstrual cycle in women‚ and an inaccurate view of one’s body‚ often referred to as dysmorphia. At one point in time‚ this illness was mainly associated with adolescents. Now‚ children as young as five years old are being treated
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STUDY GUIDE: THE BRAIN 1. Approximately how many neurons are there in the brain? about 100 billion 2. What is a neuron? It is a nerve cell that sends and receives electrical signals over long distances within the body 2b. be able to label its parts. Parts of a neuron. A neuron has three basic parts‚ the cell body‚ the axon‚ and the dendrites. A thin nerve membrane surrounds the entire cell 3. How fast do neurons travel? Neurons
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Assessment of Adolescents An assessment involves administering and interpreting psychological tests and integrating this with current and past symptoms‚ observations‚ information about developmental‚ biological‚ social‚ educational‚ and life experiences (Kirst-Ashman & Hull‚ 2006). Educational assessments of adolescents are based on obtaining a profile of the child’s learning weaknesses as well as his or her strengths. When an educational assessment is performed on the adolescent‚ a counselor can
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organization of their brains are superiority in verbal tests and being able to convey emotions better due to the fact that their emotional functions are within the left and right side of the brain‚ when for men‚ the function is only in the right side. Female brains are superior in verbal tests because language skills including grammar‚ spelling‚ and writing are all housed in the left side of the brain‚ whereas in a male brain‚ the language skills are located in the front and back of the brain which makes it
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Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tend to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Adolescent depression is greatly under diagnosed‚ and leads to serious difficulties in school‚ and personal adjustment. The reason why depression is often overlooked in children is because children are not always able to express how they feel. Therefore‚ teachers should be trained in dealing with depressed youths‚ and to advise the parents of the child
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Adverse effects of alcohol advertisements on adolescents. With undesirable role models of masculinity as well as promotions of alcohol appearing more frequently in advertisements and through an increase in media consumption‚ the consequential effects on the youth must be considered. Good morning/afternoon representatives and board members of the United Nations Youth Forum; a major concern raised by Susan Gigli in her 2004 UNICEF report was that young people have an apparent inability to distinguish
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MENTAL DISORDER AMONGST ADOLESCENTS Importance and relevance According to the World Health Organization (WHO‚2002)‚ mental health disorders are one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Three of the ten leading causes of disability in people between the ages of 15 and 44 are mental disorders‚ and the other causes are often associated with mental disorders. Both retrospective and prospective research has shown that most adulthood mental disorders begin in childhood and adolescence (Kessler
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knowledge‚ and sexual abusive behaviour toward others‚ lack of trust‚ regression‚ become isolated and withdrawn. Emotional abuse such as low self-esteem‚ attention seeking behaviour‚ nervous behaviour‚ continual rocking‚ hair twisting‚ delayed development‚ and self harming. Donna.Curley@wiltshire.gov.uk 2.2 Describe the actions to take if a child or young person alleges harm or abuse in line with policies and procedures of own setting If a child or young person alleges they have been
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Kaplan University CM220: College Composition September 5‚ 2012 Traumatic Brain Injury is an injury that affects an estimated 1.7 million people per year in the United States. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. TBI can result when the head suddenly and violently hits a solid object‚ or an object pierces through the skull and enters the brain tissue. There are two main types of TBI a closed head injury (CHI)
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person feels good about him or herself in a variety of areas that either promote or discourage positive relationship between adolescents and their respective parents. The evidence of the changes in peer and parent-child relationships during early adolescence suggests that early adolescence is a critical period of transformation in children’s relationships. Early adolescents may orient toward peers while distancing themselves from their parents because their peer relationships fit some of their developmental
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