Study Skills
Type of motivation What is it? Examples Intrinsic motivation Motivation from within • I enjoy learning new things • I will be better equipped to obtain a degree Extrinsic motivation…
Stress Management
Fig. 8.1 Eustress and distress 8.2 Prevalence of Distress Among Indian Adolescents Stress is a condition of major public health concern, because of its high rate of prevalence and the high…
Depression
Domain Features Thinking Negative thoughts about self, others, and the world. Preoccupation with past experience, inability to concentrate, unable to take decisions. Apprehensions about future. Thoughts of worthlessness, helplessness, hopelessness,…
Treatment of Substance-Abusing Adolescents
Depressants Stimulants Hallucinogens Alcohol (whisky, rum, brandy, wine, beer, sura, tadi, vodka, etc.) Amphetamine LSD Cannabis (charas, ganja, bhang) Cocaine Dextromethorphan Opiods (smack, brown sugar, afeem, proxyvon, dodda, maal, morphine,…
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Fig. 12.1 The OCD cycle 12.2 Epidemiology OCD is estimated to be the fourth most common psychiatric diagnosis, preceded by phobias, substance abuse, and major depressive disorder. The World Health Report…
Management of Sleep Problems
Fig. 7.1 The vicious cycle of adolescent sleep 7.2.1 Adolescent Sleep Research in India Sleep patterns of 1920 urban school going adolescents were studied using a sleep habits questionnaire by Bhatia…
Pain Management
Fig. 9.1 Cognitive behavioral conceptualization of pain. Source Brown (2007) (a) Predisposing factors These factors include the following: Childhood trauma—This constitutes physical, emotional, or sexual abuse by parents or caregivers as…
Anxiety Management
Fig. 10.1 Cognitive model of development of anxiety (Rapee 2001). Reproduced with permission from author According to the model, genetic, shared as well as non-shared environmental factors play an important role…
Anger Management
Self-report inventory Developed by Description State-trait anger expression inventory-2 (STAXI-2) Spielberger (1999) 57-item, self-report behavior inventory that measures the experience, expression, and control of anger of adolescents and adults, ages…
Headache—A Transdiagnostic Approach
14.1.1.2 Epidemiology The prevalence rate of headache increases with age in children, with female predominance, after the age of 13 years (Russell et al. 2006). It ranged from 37 to 51 %…
