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conduct disorder symptoms in teens
conduct disorder symptoms in teens Signs and Symptoms in teens as follows: • Destroying property • Stealing • Fighting • Sexually abusing others • Cruelty to animals • Not attending school • Drug abuse • Verbally abusing others From Mental health articles, post conduct disorder symptoms in teens Post Footer automatically generated by wp-posturl plugin […]
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ways to mitigate symptoms of personality disorders
Personality is a pattern of feelings, behaviors, and thinking that defines the way a person is perceived. Personality develops during childhood and remains stable during adulthood. All of us have these traits. For example, you may cut in line at the checkout counter or pretend to be sick to avoid going to a family gathering. […]
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Withdrawal symptoms in a newborn
Withdrawal symptoms in a newborn Withdrawal symptoms in a newborn are common with opiates, including methadone use, and include high-pitched cry, irritability, hypertonicity and hyperflexia. Cocaine use has been associated with neonatal irritability, nasal snuffiness, jitteriness, tremor, fever, diarrhoea, vomiting, fist sucking, yawning and tachycardia. Substance-abusing mothers are more likely to have an infant with […]
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childhood trauma symptoms
childhood trauma symptoms Childhood traumas are common in the history of substance-abusing women who may also have role models of neglect and substance misuse. A dysfunctional family of origin, poor parenting role modelling and availability, and physical abuse are frequent, and may contribute to ongoing difficulties in forming trusting relationships and in parenting. From Mental […]
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symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder
symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder Borderline personality disorder has many features in common with Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder as these are described in the DSM-IV (APA, 1994). Individuals who have experienced early abuse may be continue to be distressed by these events into adult life and experience reliving of these episodes in the form of […]
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baby blues are transient symptoms
The ‘baby blues’ are common, transient symptoms occurring in 50–80 per cent of new mothers (Cooper & Murray, 1995). Symptoms include: mood swings from sadness to elation, with tears likely either way; increased sensitivity; irritability, exhaustion and a variety of aches and pains. Some experts believe that if the predominant mood is positive, the ‘blues’ […]
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cluster c personality disorder symptoms
cluster c personality disorder symptoms Cluster C entails pervasive anxiety and fear. Th is cluster is the most ambiguous of the three because it overlaps with Axis I diagnoses, especially anxiety, mood, eating, and somatoform disorders (Dolan-Sewell et al., 2001). Th e “central features of timidity, persistent tension, proneness to anxiety, dependence, lack of confi […]
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schizoid personality disorder symptoms side effects
schizoid personality disorder symptoms side effects Schizoid personality disorder (SdPD) is seen as an ego-syntonic introversion, with the suff erer having little interest in others, no close friends except fi rst-degree relatives, and no pleasure in anything except for a few activities (Parnas et al., 2005). SdPD is characterized as “a pervasive pattern of detachment […]
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cluster a personality disorders symptoms
cluster a personality disorders symptoms Cluster A includes paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders, which are characterized by odd and eccentric behavior, odd patterns of aff ect and cognitions, and interpersonal isolation. Some researchers see a possible symptomatic and genetic relationship to schizophrenia (Livesley, 1995; Magnavita, 2004; Parnas, Licht, & Bovet, 2005). Th us, Cluster […]
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