ADULT ISSUES
Cambridge Medical Centre (CMC) - Dubai has the expertise and resources to provide a structured, systematic assessment and appropriate individually designed therapeutic programme to a wide range of Psychological, Emotional, Mental Health problems and other disorders amongst children, adolescents and young people.
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How common are Psychological and Emotional problems amongst
Children and Teenagers?
According to the findings in 2004 by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), UK:
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One in Ten children and young people have had a Mental health illness
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4% had an Emotional Disorder such as anxiety or depression
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6% had a Conduct Disorder (a range of disorders associated with aggressive and anti-social behaviours)
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2% had a Hyperkinetic disorder such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – hyperkinetic disorders affect both thinking and behaviour
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1% had a less common disorder, such as autism, tics, eating disorders and selective mutism
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2% had more than one type of disorder
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School absences because of Psychological Disorders:
Based on teacher-completed questionnaires, those with the following disorders had missed more than 16 days of school in the last term:
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17% of those with Emotional Disorders
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14% of those with Conduct Disorders
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11% of those with Hyperkinetic Disorders
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Our service will be tailored to meet the needs of a wide range of issues, the following are some of them:
Fear & Phobia
Young children have more fears and phobias than adults, and experience the emotion of them more intensely. Novelty, unpredictability and sudden changes can also induce fear in children, and illness might 'put them back', reviving old fears that they had put behind them at an earlier age.
Bullying
Bullying is a form of violence and a way of having power over others. Bullying is verbal, emotional or physical abuse which is repeated and intended to hurt, frighten or threaten someone. Bullying can happen to any child or teenager anywhere, at any time.
Parents can help by listening, believing and supporting children.
School Phobia
(School Refusal)
The number of children who dislike school and avoid it whenever possible is probably more than 5% of the school-age population, but less than 1% could genuinely be called 'school phobic'. School phobia, also called 'school refusal' is commoner among boys, and the peak onset in Britain is at the age of 11-12 years.
ADD & ADHD
Attention Deficit Disorder ( ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Often the names ADD and ADHD are used to mean the same thing as part of a group of behaviour problems where children have more difficulty with concentrating on what they are doing (problems with attention) than other children of their age.
Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses that involve disordered eating behavior and is a form of self-starvation. Children and teenagers with this health problem have a distorted body image. They think they weigh too much. This leads them to severely restrict how much food they eat.
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Depression
Childhood and adolescent depression is often recurrent and intermittent course of illness continues sometimes into adulthood. Depression affects the child's emotional, psychological, education, social and physical health.
It has been found that around 1-3 % of children and teenagers suffer of depression. Teenage girls are twice as likely as teenage boys to be depressed.
Conduct Disorder
Conduct disorder (CD) is an emotional and behavioural state that leads children and young people to act in a way that is disruptive and violent, and not follow rules.
Conduct disorder represents a group of behavioural problems where a child is aggressive, antisocial and defiant to a much greater degree than expected for your child's age.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
It has been shown that OCD affects as many as 12 in every 1000 people about 2-3% of teenagers suffer OCD, regardless of gender or social or cultural background. there is no clear cause of OCD however some vulnerability factors such as genetic, change in family circumstances, frightening developmental life events.
