Sleep disorders interfere with a person's ability to sleep through breathing problems, lack of sleep (insomnia is the main sleep disorder), poor quality of sleep, restless leg motions, or other problems. These
What are some advantages and disadvantages of a blended family? As a social worker, what are some challenges that may arise when working with children whose parents have separated or divorced? What are the changes in family structure in terms of changing patterns of marriage, divorce, separation...
Table 4 shows the percentage of samples in each 5FP category, aggregated across participants, displayed by session number. There were four samples for each of the five participants in each session, thus 4 × 5 = 20 samples per session. Across all participants in th...
Substantial progress has been made in the understanding of anorexia nervosa (AN) and eating disorder (ED) genetics through the efforts of large-scale collaborative consortia, yielding the first genome-wide significant loci, AN-associated genes, and insig
Today's adolescents have increased capacity to interact 435 436 CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, AND THE MEDIA Figure 9.1 The social media landscape. SOURCE: FredCavazza.net. with one another and the larger world using media, enhanced opportunities to explore and experiment via media, and ...
Neurodevelopmental disorders such as ASD and ADHD have been associated with aberrations in the structure and function of neural circuitry [77,78,79,80,81,82]. SCAs such as KS and TS have individually been associated with structural and functional aberrations in the neural circuitry of attention, ...
Few studies have examined the mental health needs of African children and teenagers. Based on this gap, this scoping review aims to identify barriers to mental health services, treatments and services sought, and where mental health services are received. Methods To pursue the stated objectives, we...
We now know that sleep disruption has many deleterious effects not only in adults, but also, poor sleep can have a strong negative impact on the health and functioning of children and adolescents. Considering the significant percentage of children and teens suffering from sleep...
Thereafter, a decline of more than 10 percentage points is something that we say is cardiotoxicity, which is in keeping with many of the other guidelines around the world. The difference is that we do go into probable subclinical cardiotoxicity and possible side subclinical cardiotoxicity, and we...
children than those who do not recognise a problem or its negative impact [20,21]. Parental attitudes surrounding mental health and mental health services have been shown to influence help-seeking decisions—in particular, beliefs that mental health problems are caused by child’s personality or ...