Serious
Emotional Disturbances Found Among Children After Katrina (2010, January 5).
Not exact matches
A Kaiser Permanente study published last year
found almost half of adults with type 2 diabetes report acute and chronic pain, and close to one quarter report neuropathy, fatigue, depression, sleep
disturbance, and physical or
emotional disability.
A follow up study
found this result applied across the five disability classifications studied, notably including
emotional disturbance and intellectual disability, stigmatizing categories in which black boys are over represented in the aggregate, unadjusted data.
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.
«My ideal patient is a women, adolescent girl, or child of either gender who is struggling with life, either because of
emotional disturbance or the situation they
find themselves in.
Brief vignettes and excerpts from federal - and state - level court
findings help illuminate the educational definition of
emotional disturbance, and practical tables and charts aid with the assessment process and determining eligibility.
These
findings reflect those of a study conducted in Finland among schoolchildren, which
found that children with widespread pain reported more
emotional and behavioural problems than those without pain, and showed that tiredness during the day was a risk factor for the persistence of pain.18 Furthermore, a recent study of children aged 3 — 17 years attending a medical practice in Australia
found that children experiencing frequent abdominal pain were more likely to be anxious and experience sleep
disturbances when compared to children with no abdominal pain.19
Learn about new
findings from the National Longitudinal Transition Study - 2 (NLTS2) on factors that improve educational and employment outcomes of youth with
emotional disturbance.
Emotional disturbance following childbirth: clinical
findings and urinary excretion of cylic AMP (adenosine 3 ′ 5 ′ cyclic monophosphate)