Conduct Disorder

Conduct disorder is defined by the impact of the child’s behavior on people and surrounding and focuses on aggressive behaviors such as physical cruelty to people or animals, serious rule violations, property destruction, and deceitfulness. The diagnostic specifier is “limited prosocial emotions” where children who have callous and unemotional traits show a lack of remorse,

Eating Disorders

The three primary eating disorders include anorexia, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. Each come with their own physical consequences and prognosis. Anorexia nervosa is the restriction of behaviors that promote healthy body weight. Bulimia Nervosa is repeated episodes of binge-eating and repeated compensatory behaviors to prevent weight gain such as purging (vomiting), fasting, excessive

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive-Compulsive disorder is a disorder characterized by the presence of obsessions and/or compulsions. The obsessions or compulsions are either time consuming of more than 1 hour per day or cause clinically significant distress and/or impairment. Other related disorders include body dysmorphic disorder and hoarding disorder. These disorders have a prevalence around 2% and exhibit very

PTSD & Acute Stress Disorder

Posttraumatic stress disorder is an extreme response to severe stressor. It involves recurrent memories of trauma, avoidance of stimuli associated with trauma, negative emotions and thoughts, and increased arousal.  PTSD is the response to a serious trauma as an event that involved actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violation where 55% of people report

Schizophrenia Overview

Schizophrenia influences the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. It involves disordered thinking where ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, lack of emotional expressiveness, and disturbances in movement or behavior. Widespread disruptions in life occur that range from maintaining jobs, living independently, an having close relationships. Schizophrenia is one of the

Why Taking Mental Health Days Is Good

We all have our “good” days and our “bad” days. Or we just have our “days.” Some days we’re just breathing, and some days we’re living. Either way, whichever way we have it, it is important to take mental health days. A mental health day may be more than needed after a long exhausting stressful

Overview of Depressive Disorders

Two major depressive disorders are major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder. Major depressive disorder is a sad mood or loss of interest and pleasure with at least 5 symptoms present. Persistent depressive disorder is an individual having a depressed mood for at least 2 years and 1 year for children or adolescents. The epidemiology

What is ADHD?

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is characterized by hyperactive behaviors that are extreme for a particular developmental period, persistent across different impairment situations, and linking to significant impairments in functioning. There may be particularly difficulty controlling their activity in situations that call for sitting still such as classrooms. They may also experience difficulty getting along with peers caused.