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Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Abuse

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  The child and adolescent psychiatrist is a doctor who specializes in the treatment and the diagnosis of disorders of thinking, feeling and/or geste affecting adolescents, children, and their families. A child and adolescent psychiatrist offers families the advantages of a medical education, the medical traditions of professional ethics, and medical responsibility for furnishing comprehensive care Child psychiatry is primarily concerned with the study and treatment of behavioral diseases and emotional problems that affect children. Emotional maladjustments of children constantly are characterized by anxiety response. Child abuse or child maltreatment is physical, sexual, and/ or cerebral maltreatment or neglect of a child or children, especially by a parent or a caregiver. Child abuse may include any act or failure to act by a parent or a caregiver that results in factual or implicit detriment to a child and can do in a child's home, or in the associations, seminaries, or comm...

Psychiatry and Psychology

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  Psychiatry is the branch of medicine focused on the treatment, prevention and diagnosis, of emotional, mental, and behavioral disorders. A psychiatrist is a doctor, who treats the mental health, including substance use disorders. Psychiatrists are qualified to assess both the physical and mental aspects of emotional problems. People seek psychiatric help for many reasons. The problems can be sudden, such as frightening hallucinations, panic attack, thoughts of suicide, or hearing "voices." Or they may be more long-term, such as feelings of hopelessness, sadness or anxiousness that never seem to lift or problems functioning, causing everyday life out of control or to feel distorted. Class of Medications ·          Antidepressants ·          Antipsychotic medications ·          Sedatives and anxiolytics ·          Hypnotics...

Bipolar disorder and divorce: related to pre-marital counselling and treatment compliance

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WHO states there are 60 million people in the world have bipolar disorder, a chronic mental disorder characterized by mood swings,and can cause disability, psychosocial burdens including economic and family. Bipolar disorder affects communication and family harmony, particularly with regardto depression, hospitalization and frequency of manic episodes. Bipolar disorder has been shown to impair many functions in all areas of life. While marriage mayhave a positive effect on people with bipolar disorder, the marriage itself can be severely threatened by bipolar disorder in one or both partners. Every year there are300 thousand divorces in Indonesia. Data from Population and Civil Registration of the Ministry of Home Affairs, there are 3.97 million people who are married and divorced. Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: Individual diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and if they had bipolar disorder’s spouse will interviewed about their experience emotional journey due to their marrie...