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Non-Pharmacological Treatment of ADHD

This research paper presents a literature review that focuses on non-pharmacological interventions that address ADHD n children an...

Dementia Patient Aggression Treated Nonpharmacologically

patients, and as such may not be as acceptable or desirable (Saltzman, 1985). Other limiting factors in the use of drugs c...

Prevention and Management of Constipation

healthcare provider to assess the potential risk of constipation and helping to get preventative measures (Campbell et al, 2001). ...

Youth Suicide and Depression; Conventional Approaches To Treatment

a major relapse when they are adults (Olfson et al, 2003). Therefore treatment at an early stage may help prevent later episodes. ...

Intelligence and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

at any other time of his life. He always wanted to do well, but always seemed unable to perform to standard: My earliest recogni...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Varied Treatment Uses

often prevalent in adolescent populations (APA, 1994). It must be noted that secondary oppositionalism is common and an accepted ...

Chemical Dependency Issues

the substance replaces recreational social or occupational activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). * The continuing u...

Tutorial on Whether or Not Hyperactive Children Should be Treated with Drugs

In six pages this tutorial defines ADD, ADHD, and MBD, along with diagnosis and treatments of each outlined and then opines with j...

The Use of Ritalin to Control Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

11 pages and 8 sources. This paper considers the impacts of using Ritalin in the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Dis...

Home Care Senior Citizen Patients and Chronic Undertreatment

2. constant monitoring for potential complications 3. the willingness to utilize both pharmacological and nonpharmacologi...

Adolescents And ADHD

What has been established thus far is the fact that depth and duration of consciousness, coupled with how old the individual is wh...

ADHD and the Role of the Psychiatric Nurse

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

ADHD: A Critique of the Research

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

ADHD: Causes, Behaviors, Strategies

259). Furthermore, the nature of the classroom environmental and the curriculum can also produce symptoms that mimic those of atte...

How Does ADHD Affect Learning

impossible for this individual to learn or achieve in school. This is not because they are not intelligent enough to do so, it is ...

Adolescent Behavior and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

in the life of dealing with an adolescent who has ADHD, and for the adolescent to be able to deal with the disorder. Volumes of r...

The Destruction of Native Culture in Australia

of large differences in terms of culture. The view was one of superiority, with the predominantly white immigrants perceiving them...

Childhood Mental Illnesses

ADHD assessment tools"; he also questions how ethical it is to give "dangerous and addictive drugs to children" (Stolzer, 2007, p....

Adolescent Depression from a Clinical Perspective

2003, p. 7). The manner by which depression overtakes each gender is a varied as how the illness is ultimately manifested. While...

Children with ADHD and Therapeutic Intervention Strategies

in choosing what course of treatment to administer to their children. In the end, some parents choose to medicate, while some choo...

Theories on Stress and How It May Be Treated

the most effective means of treatment. Stress is, in fact, a reaction; not the event or situation which causes the reaction (DeFr...

Examination of Gout

1995; Flieger, 1995). The body converts these substances to uric acid through metabolism. Approximately two thirds of the uric a...

The Genetic Basis of Anxiety Disorders

Bouton, Mineka and Barlow (2001, 4) comment: "Anxiety, an anticipatory emotional state that functions to...

Pharmacology and Substance Abuse

of Revia is the potential for the drug to cause liver problems (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Consequently patients who have existing l...

Overview of Heroin

by one study as 16.3 percent but by 1992 this figure purportedly had dropped to 5.3 percent (McCaffrey, 1998). Markon and...

Senior Citizens and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Week, 2005). The etiology of the condition revolves around the inflammation and swelling of the synovial membrane as it is invade...

Psychological v. Pharmacological Treatments of Depression

In nine pages the two major types of depression psychological and pharmacological are discussed and evaluateed in terms of researc...

Troubled Teens: SUDs and DBDs in Adolescent Populations

226) and occurs in as much as 26 percent of the adolescent population, and include alcohol, tobacco and illegal substance use. Su...

The Conditions of Attention Deficit Disorder

In seven pages this paper discusses the disorder in terms of definition, symptoms, prevalence, diagnostics, treatment, and the pos...