Pediatric Psychology

What is pediatric psychology?

practice in medical settings, short-term interventions, can do a medical diagnosis or medical treatment (therapy!) phobias, adjustment disorder etc.

What is clinical child & adolescence psychology?

practiced in private practice, longer consistent interventions, patients have psychological or behavioral symptoms, common diagnosis are ASD, ODD, MDD, GAD.

What is diabetes?

lifelong metabolic disorder which states that the body is unable to metabolized carbohydrates as a result of inadequate pancreatic release of insulin.

What is cancer?

an onset in children in more sudden and the disease is often at a more advanced stage when first diagnosed. Most common is leukemia, blood and bone marrow cancer.

What are functional neurological symptom disorder?

neurological symptoms that are unexplained by other traditional neurological or medical conditions

What are psychogenic nonpileptic seizures?

attacks that look like a seizure, but are not associated with abnormal electrical brain activity. 

what is the course of children who have a chronic illness?

Are more likely to suffer emotional and behavioral adjustment problems. they can also have a disability and are a greater risk for this. 

What is the transactional stress of chronic illness?

Adaptation to chronic illness is influenced by the nature of the illness, and also by personal and family resources

Social adjustment & school performance

Children with more severe, disruptive illnesses suffer primarily in social adjustment. 

Maladjustment may be expressed by displaying submissive behavior with peers and engaging in less social activity