Children and Behavioural Problems: Anxiety, Aggression, Depression ADHD - A Biopsychological Model with Guidelines for Diagnostics and Treatment

Cover......Page 1
Children and Behavioural Problems\rAnxiety, Aggression, Depression\rand ADHD – A Biopsychological Model\rwith Guidelines for Diagnostics and Treatment......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
Confusing terminology......Page 13
A new conceptual framework......Page 14
The source of the behaviour and the strategy for professional care......Page 16
A biopsychological model......Page 18
Part 1\rThe Model......Page 23
2\rDisorder versus Impediment......Page 25
Predisposition......Page 26
Environment......Page 30
Maturation......Page 32
Maturation disorders......Page 35
Interaction between predisposition and environment......Page 37
Disorder versus impediment......Page 38
Food for the brain......Page 41
Visible versus non-visible......Page 43
Summary......Page 45
3\rDifferences between Men and Women......Page 47
Man or woman, xy or xx?......Page 48
The biological self......Page 50
The immune system......Page 51
Perception of illness by women......Page 55
Biological self > psychological self >\rneural self......Page 56
Me–other differentiation and empathy......Page 57
Moral development......Page 61
Testosterone and the central nervous system......Page 64
Testosterone: aggression and action-readiness......Page 66
The anxiety model......Page 69
The corpus callosum......Page 77
Self-reflection......Page 78
Summary......Page 80
4 Conduct Difficulties: The Conduct Disorder......Page 81
Externalising and internalising......Page 84
The conduct disorder......Page 88
The power of testosterone......Page 91
Me–other differentiation......Page 94
Egocentricity and empathy......Page 95
Moral development......Page 97
The ability to self-reflect......Page 98
The autonomic nervous system......Page 101
Lowered consciousness......Page 103
Hormones during puberty......Page 110
Depression......Page 111
Psychopathy......Page 114
Predisposition and environment......Page 115
Outline of characteristics of the externalising and internalising\rconduct disorder......Page 117
Summary......Page 118
Sources of conduct problems......Page 121
The childrearing situation and its\rsocio-cultural context......Page 122
Puberty......Page 132
Traumas......Page 135
Divorce......Page 140
Summary......Page 143
6\rThe Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity\rDisorder, ADHD......Page 144
Characteristics of ADHD......Page 145
List of symptoms of ADHD according to the DSM-IV (American\rPsychiatric Association 1994)......Page 149
Hyperactivity......Page 150
Learning disorders......Page 151
Conduct problems with the child with ADHD......Page 153
Externalising conduct disorder and ADHD......Page 154
Summary......Page 159
7\rTypical Behaviours......Page 160
Antisocial behaviour......Page 161
Socially anxious behaviour......Page 168
Summary......Page 174
Part 2\rProfessional Help......Page 175
8\rDiagnostics......Page 177
Externalising conduct disorder versus externalising conduct\rproblem......Page 178
Internalising conduct disorder versus internalising conduct\rproblem......Page 185
ADHD, Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder, versus\rhyperactivity......Page 188
Co-morbidity......Page 191
Anxiety and depression......Page 192
Summary......Page 193
9\rThe Treatment of an Externalising\rConduct Disorder......Page 194
Treatment areas......Page 195
Medication?......Page 197
Me–other differentiation, empathy and self-reflection......Page 199
The necessity of structure......Page 205
Behavioural therapeutic techniques......Page 208
Psychiatric or educational residential help?......Page 211
Who does what in professional help?......Page 213
Summary......Page 215
Treatment areas......Page 216
Cognitions to label the anxiety......Page 218
Behaviour therapy......Page 220
Depression......Page 223
Who does what in professional help?......Page 224
Summary......Page 227
Treatment areas......Page 228
Researching the source of the behaviour......Page 229
Medication?......Page 236
Influences of the environment and the possibilities of professional\rhelp......Page 237
Behaviour therapy and behaviour contract......Page 244
Who does what in professional help?......Page 245
Summary......Page 247
Treatment areas......Page 248
Medication?......Page 249
Behaviour regulation......Page 252
Childrearing attitude and techniques......Page 256
Treatment for the various symptoms......Page 258
Hyperactivity as a conduct problem......Page 259
Who does what in professional help?......Page 260
Summary......Page 261
Appendix 1\rPsychosomatics Model......Page 263
Appendix 2\rBehaviour Contract......Page 267
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING......Page 269
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 295
AUTHOR INDEX......Page 302