There is a worrying trend taking place at the moment regarding the number of children that are being diagnosed with anxiety disorders which are leading to depression. More and more children are being medicated with anti-anxiety and anti-depressive medication. In these...
Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD as it is commonly known, together with ADHD (the H is for hyperactive), are an ongoing dilemma and problem for thousands of parents and their children who have been diagnosed with this disorder. Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention...
Encopresis is the medical term for children that soil their pants when they should be potty-trained, usually after the age of 4. This condition perplexes virtually all professionals trained to assess and work with children and including paediatricians, psychiatrists,...
What happens when a child is too dependent on the parent, or an adult to help them with many things? In all my years of assessing and dealing with families who had children that were not doing well at school, or had been diagnosed with some or other disorder, I noted...
During his many years as an educational psychologist, Dr Resnick noticed some commonalities among learners diagnosed with some form of barriers to learning. He found that all of these learners were dependent on some form of help in tasks which they were unsure of,...
Quite a number of children develop disorders that seem to stump professionals dealing with children. Encopresis and Elected Mutism are just two. I have had a 100% success rate with children who soil their pants as well as elected mutes. A lady from Cape Town called...
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