Behavioral - Learning Disorders

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Behavioral - Learning Disorders

Behavioral Disorders

NEWS:

Children With Disruptive Behavioral Disorder May Benefit From Long-Term Risperidone Therapy

Experts: Junk culture is killing childhood

Mom's troubles up child's risk of behavior problems "When a mother suffers from mental health problems and other difficulties during her child's first year of life, the child is more likely to have behavior problems later on, new research shows. And the more problems a mother faces, the greater the risk."

ARTICLES:

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Tips for Elementary School Teachers (2004)

Parenting as Therapy for Child’s Mental Disorders " But like most other parents, the couple preferred to avoid drug treatment, if possible. Instead, with the guidance of psychologists at the University of Buffalo, they altered the way they interacted with Peter and his younger brother, Scott. And over the course of a difficult year, they brought about a transformation in their son. He still has days when he gets into trouble, like any other 10-year-old, but he no longer exhibits the level of restless distractibility that earned him a psychiatric diagnosis."

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Behavior Problems Among Inner-City Children With Asthma: Findings From a Community-Based Sample (PEDIATRICS 2006)

Consumption of soft drinks and hyperactivity, mental distress, and conduct problems among adolescents in Oslo, Norway. (Am J Public Health. 2006) "CONCLUSIONS: High consumption levels of sugar-containing soft drinks were associated with mental health problems among adolescents even after adjustment for possible confounders."

Examining Subtypes of Behavior Problems Among 3-Year-Old Children, Part I: Investigating Validity of Subtypes and Biological Risk-Factors. (J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2006) "Results suggest that as early as age 3, these behavior subtypes appear to be linked to biologically-based risk-factors in ways that are consistent with theories of the development of ADHD."

Outcomes of Prolonged Parent-Child Embrace Therapy among 102 children with behavioral disorders. (Complement Ther Clin Pract. 2006)

Precursors and correlates of criminal behaviour in women. (Crim Behav Ment Health. 2006) "RESULTS: In terms of childhood precursors, antisocial behaviour, institutional rearing, hyperactivity and adolescent conduct disorder were found to be significantly related to offending. Later adolescent factors were also found to be important: mixing with deviant peers and leaving school without any qualifications or plans for work. Correlates of offending in adulthood included difficulties in mental health, drug use, marriage and parenting."

Psychopharmacologic treatment of aggressive preschoolers: A chart review. (rog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2006)

Verbal Abuse by the Teacher and Child Adjustment From Kindergarten Through Grade 6 (PEDIATRICS 2006) "CONCLUSIONS. Verbal abuse by the teacher seems to be a highly stable phenomenon for at-risk children. Children who are relatively well adjusted are at low risk of becoming the target of verbal abuse by the teacher. If they do, however, these children are the most vulnerable to subsequent developmental difficulties."

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