Childhood Disabilities & Disorders
- When to Seek Therapy
- Disabilities & Disorders
- ADHD/ADD
- Anxiety Disorders
- Apraxia of Speech, Childhood
- Articulation Disorders
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Birth Injuries
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder
- Cerebral Palsy
- Clubfoot
- Conduct Disorder
- Down Syndrome
- Elimination disorders (enuresis and encopresis)
- Failure to thrive/feeding disorder
- Fine and Gross Motor Delays
- Fluency/Stuttering
- Fracture
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Gait abnormalities
- Global Developmental Delay
- Hip dysplasia
- Language Delays
- Learning Disabilities
- Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease
- Mental Retardation
- Mood Disorders
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- Oral Motor Disorders
- Orthopedic conditions
- Osgood-Schlatter Disease
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder
- Pica
- Reactive attachment disorder of infancy or early childhood
- Reading Disorders
- Scoliosis
- Selective Mutism
- Sensory Processing Disorder
- Separation anxiety disorder
- Tic disorders
- Torticollis (Wry Neck)
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Mood Disorders
Mood Disorders
Mood Disorder includes disorders that have a disturbance in mood as the predominant characteristic. Two groups of disorders are commonly recognized; depressive disorders (unipolar depression; major depressive disorder), and the bipolar disorders (bipolar I disorder and bipolar II disorder). These disorder occur throughout the lifespan.
Major depressive disorder: the person has one or more major depressive episodes. The person has a highly persistent depression, and a loss of interest or pleasure in everyday activities (lack of appetite, chronic fatigue etc.)
Bipolar I disorder: it is characterized by one or more manic episodes (abnormal elevated or irritable mood, arousal and energy levels) or mixed episodes (agitation, anxiety, fatigue, guilt, etc.). Major depressive disorder may or may not be present.
Bipolar II disorder: it is characterized by one or more Major depressive episodes accompanied by at least one hypomanic episode (pervasive and elevated or irritable mood, as well as thoughts and behaviours).
