Pregunta : Información sobre su trabajo referente a niños autistas.
Respuesta : En la actualidad el DSM-IV-TR ( Manual Diagnóstico y Estadístico de los Trastornos Mentales) incluye el Autismo dentro de los denominados “Trastornos generalizados del desarrollo”, los cuales se caracterizan porque los niños y adolescentes que los padecen presentan un importante déficit en varias áreas [...]
Pregunta : Recientemente una sobrina ha tenido un bebé con el síndrome de Down . ¿ Por qué un niño puede nacer con este síndrome?. Yo pensaba que solo podía pasarle a las mujeres que tenían un embarazo cuando ya eran muy mayores, pero mi sobrina solo tiene 29 años y me parece que es [...]
Pregunta : Hola, yo quería preguntar a donde me tengo que dirigir con un familiar que tiene un problema al despertarse. Nunca es capaz de levantarse, siempre contestando cosas que no vienen al caso y de muy mal humor. ¿Es un problema mental, de sueño o que es lo que le pasa ?. Gracias.
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the psychological examination of the children is best conducted during a play session ?.
The psychology must observe the affective behavior, the speech, the use of the play material, the motility and the attitude toward people.
The play materials could be puppets, graphic material, blocks, doll house furniture, punching bag, balloons, toy people, puzzles, toy trucks, etc.
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Children Night Terrors usually occurs in the first one to three hour of sleep, stage 3 or 4 NREM sleep (also called deep sleep ).
Episodes last from seconds to many minutes, and are characterized by sudden awakening, blank or confused stares, incomplete arousal with poor responsiveness to people, and amnesia for the episode.
Children Night Terrors are dramatic because of the screaming and inconsolable panic of the child during the episode.
This disorder are almost always self-limited, though sporadic episodes may occur for years.
When Night Terrors persist to adolescence and adulthood an underlying disorder should bee considered.
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Somnambulism usually occurs in the first one to three hour of sleep, stage 3 or 4 NREM sleep (also called deep sleep ).
Episodes last from seconds to many minutes, and are characterized by sudden awakening, blank or confused stares, incomplete arousal with poor responsiveness to people, and amnesia for the episode.
Somnambulism involves clumsy walk during which objects usually are avoided. The child appears confused but not frightened.
This disorder are almost always self-limited, though sporadic episodes may occur for years.
When somnambulism persists to adolescence and adulthood an underlying disorder should bee considered.
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Infantile Autism is characterized by
The treatment approaches are speech psychotherapy and special schooling.
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children just before entering their teens may suffer from a sense of unpopularity or loneliness ?.
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in early years of live unrealistic thinking prevails ?.
Children acquire logical thinking around 8 years old.
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The technique of psychoanalytic investigation was modified by Anna Freud who provided a method suitable for the analytic study of neurosis in childhood ?.
Most of what is known about neurosis in children and other childhood mental disorders and their treatment had come from psychoanalysts therapists.
Melanie Klein develop also a method based on interpretation of the meaning of child’s play without recourse to verbal therapy. In that kind of psychoanalysis “toys” are very important.
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René Spitz described a disturbance of infancy which he called “Hospitalism“. This is a vitiated condition of the body due to long confinement in a hospital or institution.
Spitz studied many children in two institutions and other reared at home using tests and films. The result was that the babies in institutions (hospital or foundling home) were more susceptible to illness and showed a high mortality rate than children at home.
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Six thousand years ago an Egyptian priest carved on a stone, “our earth is degenerate……Children no longer obey their parents” ?.
Centuries later, the Greek philosopher (428-348) Plato wrote the same in one of his Dialogues. …What is Encopresis ?.
Encopresis is a fecal incontinence in the absence of organic defect or illness. It occurs in about 17% of three years old children and in about 1% of four years old children.
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