ADOLESCENCE Flashcards
Disputes are over minor issues
Parent-Adolescent Conflict
Extreme measures to avoid eating the quantity and quality of the food they eat
Anorexia Nervosa
Continue to strict diet even at very unhealthy weights because they have a distorted image of their own body
Anorexia Nervosa
What are the Eating Disorder
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Bulimia Nervosa
Typically binge and purge by engaging in uncontrollable episodes of overeating
Bulimia Nervosa
What are the Mental Health Disorders
- Anxiety Disorder
- Mood
- Major Depressive Disorder
- Bipolar Disorders
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- School Phobia
- Learning Disabilities
Group of mental disorders characterized by significant feeling of anxiety to current events
Anxiety Disorder
Emotional or Behavioral symptoms in response to identifiable stressors that occur within 3 months of the onset of stressor
Mood Disorder
A period that lasts for 2 weeks during which there is either depressed mood or the loss of interest or pleasure
Major Depressive Disorder
Severe problems with concentration or attention and/or hyperactivity are estimated to affect adolescents
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive or irritable mood and abnormally and persistently increased activity or energy lasting at least 4 consecutive days
Bipolar Disorder
Persistent and irrational fear of going to school
School Phobia
Encompasses disorders that affect the way individuals with normal or above normal intelligence receive
Learning Disabilities