Controlling Mass Psychogenic Response
Mass psychogenic response (MPR), or "mass hysteria", is a set of symptoms suggesting an organic illness in the absence of an identifiable cause. Stress or anxiety contributes to the onset. The symptoms spread through a group after people see or hear about others in distress. . . .
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Tourette Syndrome and Behavior Problems
Tourette syndrome (TS) is a chronic disorder with mean age of onset at 7.4 years. It's characterized by motor and audible or verbal tics and related somatosensory urges. No longer considered a rare disorder (1--3% in high school), it is associated with an array of behavioral and emotional problems including symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), some forms of obsessive--compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety and mood disorders. . . .
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Sexual Behaviors in Childhood: When to Worry?
The terms "sexual play" and "sexualized behaviors" generally refer to developmentally appropriate behaviors that are observed in children with no known risk factors for abuse. Sexual behavior problems, on the other hand, are developmentally inappropriate and more likely to be associated with children who have been sexually abused. . . .
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Group Home Option for Teen Offenders
Juvenile offenders with prior history of risky behaviors (drug abuse), mental illness, family problems, and school failure are more likely to be repeat offenders. In an effort to rehabilitate them, group residential homes are an alternative to incarceration. . . .
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At What Age are Children Ready to be Home Alone
Not surprisingly, the authors answer this question without a specific age. Rather, they offer a set of questions that parents should ask themselves. Authors note that 7 to 15 million children are left home alone on a daily basis in the U.S. . . .
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Are Gifted Students More Sensitive?
Children with above average intelligence have been found to use three selective cognitive skills significantly more than children with average intelligence: strategy use, metacognitive knowledge (i.e., knowledge of one's own learning processes), and abstract reasoning. However, they also seem to have more psychosocial difficulties than typical children. . . .
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Is She Shy? Or Selectively Mute? (2006)
Children with selective mutism are known to speak spontaneously in the company of parents, other family members, or a circle of trusted friends. But they are consistently mute and either non-communicative or solely nonverbally communicative with everyone else and in other situations. . . .
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Group Home Options for Teen Offenders (2009)
Juvenile offenders with prior history of risky behaviors (drug abuse), mental illness, family problems, and school failure are more likely to be repeat offenders. In an effort to rehabilitate adolescent offenders, the US juvenile justice system uses group residential homes as an alternative to incarceration. . . .
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Goth Teens: School Nurses Can Help Vulnerable Youth (2008)
Media reports suggest that "being Goth" poses serious safety risks. Goth culture is associated with risk-taking behaviors (injuries, substance use, risky sexual activity, poor nutrition, and limited exercise). School nurses and counselors need to understand Goth culture to educate school staff and parents, and to assess the health risks of individuals who are attracted to Goth. . . .
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Fostering Criminal Behavior (2009)
Few studies address the effectiveness of child welfare placement to protect children from long-term criminal consequences of abuse and neglect. The present study examined adult arrest patterns of children placed out of their homes following substantiated reports of abuse or neglect. . . .
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Disruptive Behavior Disorders and Their Treatment (2008)
This review article covers attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), conduct disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder. Opposition defiant disorder (ODD) is a recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior towards authority figures. . . .
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Antisocial and Delinquent (2007)
Surveys in prisons have found that they are populated with man individuals with relatively low IQs. To understand why low IQ individuals have antisocial/delinquent behaviors that may lead to prison, one must study antisocial and delinquent behavior of youth and associated characteristics, other than just intellectual disability. . . .
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Seeking Help for Child Behavioral Problems
A majority of children with mental health problems are not referred by their primary care providers to a specialist. In this study, parents were surveyed to determine whether they seek answers to psychosocial questions from persons other than their primary care doctor. . . .
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Youth-Parent Relationships and Health Risk Behaviors
Do teen-parent relationships, or their "connectedness," influence the likelihood that youth engage in risky behaviors (suicide attempts, unhealthy eating, and substance use) or experience low self-esteem, depression, or dissatisfaction with their body? For this study, connectedness was measured by youths valuing their parents' opinions more than their peers when making a serious decision, to what extent they can talk with a parent about problems, and to what extent they feel their parents care about them. . . .
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