Child Psychiatry

All children misbehave at times, but behavior disorders go beyond mischief and rebellion. With behavior disorders, your child or teen has a pattern of hostile, aggressive or disruptive behaviors for more than six months. Normal behavior in children depends on the child's age, personality and physical and emotional development. The behavior of a child can be a problem if it does not match the expectations of the family or if it is disturbing. If you see signs of a problem, seek help. Poor choices can become habits. Children who have behavioral problems are more at risk of school failure, mental health problems and even suicide. Classes or family therapy can help parents learn to set and enforce limits.

The various studies by experts on child psychiatry, two important strategies for studying development include the longitudinal study in which a group of children is studied over a long period of time, starting in childhood adulthood. The second method, which is more popular because it is cheaper, is called the cross-sectional method. In this strategy a group of children or adolescents at a particular age are studied at this age. To compare different ages, different samples were studied, but no group will be studied over time.

Parents may choose to use physical punishment (like spanking) to stop unwanted behavior. The biggest drawback of this method is that although the punishment stops the bad behavior for a while, not teach your child to change his behavior. Disciplining your child is really just teaching him to choose good behavior.

Questions to ask while studying children's behavior and psychiatry
There were sudden changes in his life? A move or something like that?
Ask him to first find the reason behind the anger, talk to the teacher and ask if there is something you and she can do together to help your son find different outlets for his anger. The anger stems from many times the underlying problems that may be afraid to talk.
What are his qualities, how is his attention span? How is he at home? Is it open and friendly with everyone, or has isolated himself from others, while being angry? There are many other changes that may occur that will give you clues as to weather or not something serious.
In his eating habits changed? Do you and your wife belong to an association of learning disability? There are support groups for parents for children of different ages, perhaps you need to talk with parents who lived with their teens and they have some StrataGas they can offer.
Maybe you need to go with him and talk to her pediatrician or family doctor about the pills and why he does not hide or take. Maybe they have a negative effect on him that he alone has knowledge.
Next maybe he needs to repeat the grade he was in. Holding children when they are back in this kind of emotional disorders can be long term, beneficial for him. Explain it as a ball player sent to the minors to hone his skills more, so he can return to the big leagues.
Reward children when they do something good
Ask the child to accomplish a task. Set a timer. If the task is completed before the timer rings, your child receives a reward.
Add a short list of good behaviors on a chart and mark the chart with a star each time you see good behavior. After your child has acquired a small number of stars (depending on the age of the child), give him a reward.
In a short period of time (about an hour) put a mark on a card or on your child's hand each time you see him make good behavior. For example, if you see your child playing quietly, solving a problem without fighting, picking up toys or reading a book, you mark the chart. After some naked.