Childhood Reveled
Childhood Revealed takes us into the hearts and minds of children who live with a specific challenge in their cognitive, psychological, or physical aspect of their life. For these children, drawing, and writing about their drawings, are ways of finding solutions or communicating with anyone that will listen. Remarkably, their resilient natures lead them to correct what is wrong, fix what is broken, and heal what is scarred. Their desire to triumph, their instinct to dream is their most telling, most disarming quality. As an abused girl of eleven writes of her drawing: "This picture is bright and shows that I feel happier and am progressing. The flower with the brown middle shows that I still feel angry. I have courage inside and know that I can do much better in life. Children shouldn't feel that it is always their fault." It is estimated that 12 percent of American children endure mental health problem, yet less than one-fifth receive treatment. Childhood revealed has been created by the New York University Child Study Center, which is dedicated to advancing research and clinical care for children. For this book, The Center invited child and adolescent clinicians and teachers nationwide to submit artwork made by childre
Compounding the difficulty is the fact that all children display these behaviors from time to time. What parent hasn't lamented that their kids never listen to a thing they say? Who hasn't fallen into bed exhausted from chasing a toddler around all day? The class bully has ADHD, but so does the dreamy child who always says the wrong things at the wrong time. Still, for parents the diagnosis is a harsh blow, and they may continue to deny it out of guilt and fear. In fact, depression is not only no one's fault, it's highly treatable, the sooner the better. Doctors now use a combination of psychotherapies including play, behavior, and cognitive therapy in individual or family counseling, as well as, medication to help depressed kids regain control of their own lives. Depression is a rare disorder for children under the age of twelve, affecting only 1 to 2 percent of children five to eleven years of age. By the time children hit puberty, an estimated 8 percent of young people twelve to eighteen (nearly twice as many girls as boys) suffer from major depression disorder. Depression in children, has no one face, children may display an array of seemingly contradictory symptoms. They may be quiet, lethargic, and withdrawn, or irritable, belligerent, and angry. In the treatment of psychotic illnesses, perhaps the biggest hurdle to leap is a patient's tendency to discontinue the medication that he or she desperately needs to stay well. Time and again, patients who begin to feel better don't think they need to continue the help. Sufferers, especially those left untreated, are at serious risk for drug and alcohol abuse as well as for suicide. According to Erikson, the psychosocial crisis of adolescents is identity versus role confusion. Ideally, adolescents resolve this crisis by developing both their own uniqueness and their relationship to the larger society, establishing a sexual, political, more, and vocational identity in the process. Sometimes the pressure to resolve the identity crisis is too great, and instead of exploring alternative roles, young people foreclose on their options, taking on someone else's values wholesome. Unfortunately, peer pressure can cause a teenager to take on a negative identity hence trying drugs such as cocaine and heroin, which defies the expectations of family and community. Children giving into pressure and using drugs could also mean that they posses an inborn temperament to not be cautious and are more of a risk taker. Psychosis is a general term used to describe a state in which a person is unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality. Psychosis generally occurs in middle to late adolescents. Adolescent boys are more likely to exhibit this than girls. When people have a psychotic reaction, they are unable to make sense of the world because their brain isn't properly processing the information it's receiving. They may have delusions, ideas that are very real to them but have no basis in reality. Children may even hallucinate, that is, they may hear, see, or fell something even though these stimuli are absent. A diagnosis of psychosis may be determined by what doctors call negative symptoms, which are, apathy and withdrawal. Due to our society being preoccupied by weight,
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