Sentences with phrase «adult psychiatric problems»

Childhood abuse has been linked a variety of adult psychiatric problems but its association with later - life risk of death as an adult has been less understood.

The most common adult psychiatric problems among childhood ADHD cases were alcohol dependence / abuse (26.3 %), antisocial personality disorder (16.8 %), other substance dependence / abuse (16.4 %), current or past history of hypomanic episode (15.1 %), generalized anxiety disorder (14.2 %), and current major depressive episode (12.9 %).

Not exact matches

I encouraged one of our resident psychiatrists, William G. Reiner (already interested in the subject because prior to his psychiatric training he had been a pediatric urologist and had witnessed the problem from the other side), to set about doing a systematic follow - up of these children — particularly the males transformed into females in infancy — so as to determine just how sexually integrated they became as adults.

She has extensive experience providing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to children, teenagers, and young adults struggling with psychiatric disorders, school difficulties, and behavioral problems.

They are associated with a wide range of problems in adolescence and adult life, including academic failure, delinquency, peer rejection, and poor psychiatric and physical health.

She says children should not be surrounded by adults with psychiatric problems.

Knowing this, he says, may help clinicians treating adults identify children at risk for psychiatric and behavioral problems.

But, just like adults shouldn't substitute coffee for sleep, or alcohol for relaxation, psychiatric medication should never be a substitute for teaching kids self - regulation, dealing with a stressful family situation, or to sedate a child who is causing problems.

But about 20 percent of those who were bullies as children had a mental health problem that needed medical treatment as a teen or young adult, and 23 percent of the kids who were victims of frequent bullying had sought help for a psychiatric problem before age 30.

Malnutrition is something that is commonly seen in children and adults with learning disabilities, psychiatric problems and allergies.

In her Cambridge, England clinic, she successfully treats children and adults with a wide range of conditions, including autism, ADD / ADHD, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders, immune disorders, and digestive problems using the GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) Nutritional Program, which she developed.

Expert in implementing quality treatment plans to children and adults with emotional and psychiatric problems.

Firstly, many older adults with sleep problems have underlying problems that should be treated directly: disease, medication that causes insomnia, depression, psychiatric disorders, sleep apnea, periodic limb movements, and inability to decrease the dose of a presently taken hypnotic.

Intellectual disability (ID) affects 143/10 000 children1 and is associated with a range of comorbid health conditions.2 — 4 It is heterogeneous, 5 and clustering of some medical conditions may be associated with particular disorders such as Down syndrome6 or Prader - Willi syndrome.7 While epilepsy and sensory impairments often occur in association with specific syndromes or more severe cognitive impairment, conditions such as fractures or obesity may develop as secondary to medication use, nutritional deficiency or lack of mobility.2 Consequently, children with ID may face greater health challenges than typically developing children and use healthcare systems more frequently.8, 9 Mental health problems are also common in people with ID.10 For instance, in a Canadian adolescent and adult population with ID, a high proportion of hospitalisations was attributed to the presence of psychiatric conditions.11

A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.

Our findings are consistent with a growing body of literature indicating that adverse childhood events are potent risk factors for a number of adult health and psychiatric problems, including substance abuse.

Adult crime rates were higher in all groups of antisocial girls than in any group of either normal control subjects or girls with other psychiatric problems.

The adolescent and young adult with ADHD is at risk for school failure, emotional difficulties, poor peer relationships, and trouble with the law.29, 30 Factors identifiable in younger youth that predict the persistence of ADHD into adulthood include familiality with ADHD and psychiatric comorbidity — particularly aggression or delinquency problems.28,, 29,31,32

The subjects with ADHD in the longitudinal studies generally fall into 1 of 3 main groups as young adults: (1) approximately 25 % eventually function comparably to matched normal controls; (2) the majority show continued functional impairment, limitations in learning and applying knowledge, and restricted social participation, particularly poor progress through school; and (3) less than 25 % develop significant, severe problems, including psychiatric and / or antisocial disturbance.31 It is unclear what factors determine the long - term outcomes.

Conclusions: Many adolescents in need of psychiatric assessment do not receive appropriate help because their problems remain unnoticed by adults.

For example, in the MTA sample, correlations between measures reflecting the actual reports of peers about one another were correlated only 0.01 to 0.27 in magnitude with ratings of peer functioning obtained from parents and teachers, suggesting that reports by adults are not useful proxies for the perspectives of one's peers.27 Given that views of one's peers provide better prediction to later psychiatric problems, 3 the use of adult report to index intervention outcomes in studies targeting the peer relationship problems of children is likely to prove a limited measurement approach.