School Mental Health Project
Article of the Month
January 2004
Helping Children Cope with Disruptive
Behaviors: ADHD, Conduct Disorders, Bipolar Disorders and Anxiety Disorders
ADHD
A short
but informative article on ADHD is provided by athealth.com in its "Professional
Interview Series." The interview is with Harlan Gephart, MD, the Immediate
Past Chair of the American Board of Pediatrics and an ADHD expert, who talks
about evidence-based diagnosis and treatment of this disorder.
Click here to access the interview with Dr.
Gephart
Conduct Disorder
Several
articles are available at athealth.com on
conduct disorder. They are:
· Diagnosis and treatment of conduct disorder
Conduct Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment in
Primary Care - Conduct disorder is a
psychiatric syndrome occurring in childhood and adolescence, and is
characterized by a longstanding pattern of violations of rules and antisocial
behavior.
· Medical and psychological treatment of conduct
disorder
Conduct
Disorder
- Conduct disorder (CD) is one of the most difficult and intractable mental
health problems in children and adolescents.
· Interventions for school behavior problems (pdf)
Conduct and Behavior
Problems: Interventions and Resources - An introductory packet from the UCLA Center
for Mental Health in School that provides fact sheets and behavioral strategies
for managing disruptive students. (This is a large PDF file that may take a
while to download.)
· Antisocial behavior as a
predictor of lifetime problems (pdf)
Financial Cost of Social
Exclusion: Follow Up Study of Antisocial Children into Adulthood - Antisocial behavior
in childhood is a major predictor of the total cost of public services used by
age 28.
One more article is available from the American Counseling
Association. It is Counseling Children with a
Conduct Disorder.
Bipolar Disorder
Two
resources from the National Institutes of Health are useful. The first is a
booklet called Bipolar Disorder
and provides a good overview. The second is a short article entitled Child and Adolescent Bipolar
Disorder: An Update from the National Institute of Mental Health
which addresses some of the issues surrounding the diagnosis of bipolar
disorder in youth.
A third resource is a portion of Chapter
5 (pages 84-95) on bipolar disorder from Affect and Mood Problems
Related to School Aged Youth (click here for the full 137-page
packet (pdf)) from UCLA’s Center for Mental Health in Schools.
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety Disorders,
the first resource, is a booklet by the National Institutes of Health. It is a good overview of the types of
anxiety disorders and some of the treatments for those.
The second resource is an
introductory packet from UCLA’s Center for Mental Health in Schools. Entitled Anxiety, Fears, Phobias and Related Problems:
Interventions and Resources for School Aged Youth, it is an
80+ page packet (pdf) which has a more specific focus on children. The table of
contents is listed below. “Section IV. Interventions for Anxiety Problems”
provides helpful suggestions for the school setting.
I.
Classifying Anxiety Problems; Keeping the Environment in
Perspective as a Cause of Commonly Identified Psychosocial Problems
A.
Labeling Troubled and Troubling Youth
B.
Environmental Situations and Potentially Stressful Events
C.
Fact Sheet: Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
II.
The Broad Continuum of Anxiety Problems
A.
Developmental Variations
B.
Problems
C.
Disorders
III.
A Quick Overview of Some Basic Resources
A.
A Few References and Other Sources of Information
B.
Agencies and Online Resources
C.
Consultation Cadre Contacts
IV.
Interventions for Anxiety Problems
A.
Accommodations to Reduce Anxiety Problems
i)
Anxiety Problems at a New School
ii)
Affect and Mood Problems: Children and Anxiety
B.
Behavior Management and Self Instruction
i)
Managing Traumatic Stress
ii)
Helping Children Cope with Fears and Stress
C.
Empirically Support Treatment
i)
Children with Phobic and Anxiety Disorders
ii)
Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic
D.
Medication
E.
School Advoidance: Reactive and Proactive
V.
A Few Resource Aids
A.
A Few More Fact Sheets
B.
ERIC Digest
C.
A Few More Resources
VI.
Keeping Anxiety Problems in Broad Perspective