Behavioural problem is often seen as less stigmatizing, sever, more socially acceptable and practical than the term emotionally disturbed. The grew out of a behavioural model which process teacher can see describe disorder, but cannot easily disturbed emotions. In common usage today behavioral problems usually attributed to severally student whereas reserved for most seriously impaired. An eval...

This project describes the psychopathology and personality findings in 14 juveniles who committed sexual homicide. These incarcerated youth were assessed using a structured interview, a personality assessment instrument, correctional files review, and an author-designed clinical interview. Nearly all of these youth met DSM-III-R conduct disorder criteria at the time of the crime. The presence o...

The current study investigated labeling effects in groups of institutionalized adolescents. Self-concepts of 111 delinquents, 33 adolescent psychiatric inpatients, and 119 high school students were assessed in relation to three relevant social labels (popular teenager, juvenile delinquent, and emotionally disturbed teenager). A semantic differential technique and discriminant analyses were used...

An unusual form of bezoar extending from the stomach to the small intestine or beyond has been described as Rapunzel syndrome. Bezoars are concretions in the gastrointestinal tract that increase in size by continuous accumulation of non-absorbable food or fibers. Most bezoars in children are trichobezoars from swallowed hair from the head, dolls, or brushes. Trichobezoars typically cause abdomi...

ren are given to illustrate a number of the conditions that may lead to this delay. Methods of trying to help children with particular disabilities are described, such as those for the deaf child, the emotionally disturbed child, the brain damaged and physically handicapped child, and the child who stammers. The work of a school for multiply handicapped children is reviewed, with particular ref...

The management of the unmanageable dental patient for restorative procedures has long been the bane of the dental practitioner. The handicapped, emotionally disturbed, mentally retarded, very young or frightened patients were often abused or neglected. Some members of the dental profession, recognizing this inequality, have seen fit to acquire particular skills in the field of anesthesiology so...

Clinical holistic medicine (CHM) has developed into a system that can also be helpful with mentally ill patients. CHM therapy supports the patient through a series of emotionally challenging, existential, and healing crises. The patient's sense of coherence and mental health can be recovered through the process of feeling old repressed emotions, understanding life and self, and finally letting ...

The management of epileptic children has greatly improved during the last 10 years with new methods of investigation, new anticonvulsant drugs, and sometimes neurosurgical procedures, but conduct disorders encountered in epileptic children remain a most intractable problem. In spite of popular beliefs only a small proportion of epileptic children have severe disorders of this type. Henderson (1...