scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: Holistic Treatment of Children

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 581-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Mohammed Morad ◽  
Gideon Vardi ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Holistic Treatment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Based Medicine

We believe a holistic approach to problems in childhood and adolescence will benefit the child, adolescent, and the whole family. As a rule, children have far less to say in the family than their parents. Therefore, it is the parents who set the agenda and decide how things are done at home and in relation to the child. Most often, it is also the parents who have a problem when the child is not thriving. The child thus acts as the thermometer of the family. When children are not feeling well or are sick, the parents are not doing well either. Most problems arising from dysfunctional patterns are almost impossible for the parents to solve on their own, but with help and support from the holistically oriented physician, we believe that many problems can be discovered and solved. Not only can health problems be addressed, but also problems of poor thriving in the family in general. With the physician in the role of a coach, the family can be provided with relevant exercises that will change the patterns of dysfunction. Consciousness-based medicine also seems to be efficient with children and adolescents, who are much more sensitive to the psychosocial dimensions than adults. Five needs seem to be essential for the thriving and health of the child: attention, respect, love, acceptance (touch), and acknowledgment. The physician should be able to see if the child lacks fulfillment in one or more of these needs, and he can then demonstrate to the parents how these needs should be handled. This should be followed by simple instructions and exercises for the parents in the spirit of coaching. This approach is especially relevant when the child is chronically ill.

scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: Social Problems Disguised as Illness

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 286-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Mohammed Morad ◽  
Isack Kandel ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
And Behavior

Many of the diseases seen in the clinic are actually symptoms of social problems. It is often easier for the physician to treat the symptoms than to be a coach and help the patient to assume responsibility in order to improve quality of life, social situation, and relations. If the physician ignores the signs of the disease as a symptom of social problems, and treats the patient with pharmaceuticals, he can give the patient the best justification in the world not to do anything about the situation. It is very important that the physician is not tricked by the games the socially troubled patient, more or less unconsciously, is playing. A firm and wise attitude that confronts the patient with his or her lack of responsibility for solving social problems seems to be a constructive way out. The physician can give holding and support, but the responsibility must remain with the patient. Often it is better for the patient that the physician abstains from giving drugs that can remedy the symptoms and takes the role of a coach instead. Suffering is not necessarily bad, suffering is actually highly motivating and often the most efficient source of learning. Coaching can help the patient canalize his motivation into highly constructive considerations and behavior. A holistic approach thus gives the patient learning and helps him rehabilitate his social reality. Concerning children with recurrent or chronic pain, we have observed an overuse of painkillers, where we believe part is of a psychosomatic nature due to poor thriving in the family. Here the physician has an important job helping the parents to develop as persons, teaching them the basic holding of awareness, respect, care, acknowledgment and acceptance of their child. Most of the chronic pain and discomfort with children can be improved if the physician understands how to use the holistic medical toolbox.

scholarly journals An Integrated Approach to Deal with Mental Health Issues of Children and Adolescent during COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mousumi Sethy ◽  
Reshmi Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Children And Adolescent ◽  
Mental Health Issues

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has left few countries untouched. It is a far-reaching implication on humankind, with children and adolescents, being no exception. Although the prevalence and fatality are negligible among children, a possible impact on their psychological and mental health cannot be disregarded. The unprecedented change in the way of living is bound to be having some psychological consequences on children and adolescents. The experiences gathered in childhood and adolescence are known to contribute to shaping the physical, emotional, and social well-being in adult life. Children are highly susceptible to environmental stressors. The present situation has the potential of adversely affecting the physical and mental well-being of children. To save the children from the long term consequences of this pandemic, a holistic approach integrating biological, psychological, social and spiritual methods of enhancing mental health have become essential. A concerted effort of government, Non Government Organisations (NGOs), parents, teachers, schools, psychologists, counselors and physicians are required to deal with the mental health issues of children and adolescents. This paper discusses the possible role of these agencies in the holistic intervention of this crisis.

Delinquency and the Pediatrician

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 249-257
Author(s):  
Alan D. Woolf
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Double Jeopardy ◽  
Dental Pathology ◽  
The Family ◽  
Complete Health ◽  
Clustering Of Risk Factors ◽  
Hearing Difficulties

Adolescents may be predisposed to delinquency by a double-jeopardy situation of clustering of risk factors in physical health (eg, perinatal or nervous system trauma, naurodevelopmental or cognitive dysfunction, neglected health problems) and the environment (eg, poverty, disordered family dynamics, poor education). Pediatricians must be attentive to neglected or previously undiscovered health problems in this population, such as overlooked cosmetic or congential defects, nutritional problems, substance abuse, vision and hearing difficulties, dental pathology, and sex-related conditions and diseases. Delinquents, especially during the transition into detention, are at particular risk for injuries, depression, and suicidal behavior. The complete health assessment of the delinquent should include a neurodevelopmental, cognitive, and educational progress assessment. This will facilitate implementation of an appropriate individualized remediation program. The pediatrician, in the dual role of health care provider for the family and child advocate in the community, can accomplish much toward the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of delinquency.

scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: Applied Consciousness-Based Medicine

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 96-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Family Physician ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
The Family ◽  
Biomedical Treatment ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
The Village

Consciousness-based medicine is our term for a form of medical treatment that works by direct appeal to the consciousness of the patient, in contrast to modern biomedical treatment where drugs are used to affect body chemistry. With this concept, maybe we are (in a sense) turning back to the “old medicine”, where the family physician was the all-concerned “old country doctor” who knew the child, the siblings, the parents, the family, and the village. In a series of papers on clinical holistic medicine, we would like to present the classic art of healing, where the physician works mostly with his hands, then show how the modern biomedical physician performs with biochemistry, and finally introduce consciousness-based medicine. Some of our questions will be: If you improve your quality of life, will you also improve your health? Will learning more about yourself bring more purpose in your life? Will finding someone to live with in a loving and mutually respectful relationship improve your health? Scientists and thinkers like Antonovsky, Frankl, Maslow, and Jung have pointed to love as a unique way to coherence in life, and thus to biological order and a better health. Several scientific studies have also suggested that patients who focus on improving their quality of life usually will not follow the general statistics for survival, since somehow other factors are at play, which sometimes you will find referred to as “exceptional”.

scholarly journals Modelo comboio para suporte familiar pelo enfermeiro na atenção básica: estudo descritivo

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Lucilane Maria Sales da Silva ◽  
Marcelo Costa Fernandes ◽  
Sarah De Sá Leite ◽  
Mariana Correia Cadete Nogueira ◽  
Weverson De Abreu Lima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Health Facilities ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
The Family ◽  
Convoy Model

Aim:  investigate  the  exchange  of  related  support  health  care between the family, inserted in the center of the convoy model, and nurses of primary care.   Method:   descriptive   study,   conducted   with   30   users   of   Primary   Care   of Maracanaú/CE in July 2014. Appealed to the Collective Subject Discourse to organize the data  and  the  convoy  model  for  visualization  of  the  support  exercised  by  the  nurse. Results:  the  nurse  is  a  secondary  source  of  support  to  families;  their actions  are restricted to health facilities, demonstrating the mistaken role of their duties, and have focused on the orientation activities. Discussion: There are nurse's detachment regarding the  assisted  families,  as  well  as  influences  of  the  hegemonic  medical  model,  which distances  the  nurse  from  the  carrying  out  of  their  real  duties.  Conclusion:  nurses  are undervalued and pointed as a secondary reference in relation to families solving health problems.

Developmental and Prosocial Dimensions of Hypo-egoic Phenomena

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Harter
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Developmental Changes ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
True Self ◽  
Developmental Transitions

This chapter provides a developmental perspective on phenomena that involve a hypo-egoic perspective—such as perspective taking, prosocial behavior, empathy, true-self behavior, and self-coherence—with a focus on whether hypo-egoic processes that have been described in adult populations also exist in childhood and adolescence. The chapter examines the extent to which children and adolescents have the cognitive skills to engage in various hypo-egoic behaviors and explores the motives that might underlie hypo-egoic phenomena at different developmental levels. Along the way, the development of skills and motives that promote self-absorbed and self-aggrandizing tendencies, such as egocentrism and narcissism, are also discussed. The role of cognitive-developmental changes, socially driven developmental transitions, developmentally salient needs, and individual differences in parenting and socialization practices on hypo-egoic perspectives and behaviors are also examined.

Childhood and Adolescence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suad Kapetanovic ◽  
Lori Wiener ◽  
Lisa Tuchman ◽  
Maryland Pao
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
The Family ◽  
Health Objectives ◽  
Hiv Aids

Mental health professionals need to understand how the psychosocial and mental health needs of HIV-infected youth evolve over time and to be able to identify salient clinical challenges that present with each developmental stage. It is also important to understand that HIV/AIDS affects children’s lives indirectly, by the presence of HIV/AIDS in a family member, even if the child is not HIV infected. This chapter uses a developmental perspective to introduce key mental health objectives in the lives of developing HIV-infected children and adolescents and provides an overview of epidemiological, psychosocial, and clinical parameters to be considered in their clinical care and management. The chapter also addresses issues facing perinatally and behaviorally HIV-infected children and adolescents. Separate sections of the chapter discuss biopsychosocial factors salient to children and adolescents who are affected by HIV infection in the family.

Prerequisites of Deformations of the Personal Resource Under the Conditions of Family Disadvantages

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Оксана Истратова ◽  
Oksana Istratova ◽  
Елена Голубева ◽  
Elena Golubeva
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Family Climate ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Personal Resource ◽  
Family Crisis ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Factor

The research was supported by RFBR (project No. 18-013-00029 A). The article discusses the actual problem of modern society – the problem youth's personal resource deformation. The gradual formation of a personal resource over the course of age development is noted. The preconditions for a personal resource in early, preschool, junior school, adolescence and adolescence are singled out. The main manifestations of the family crisis as a factor causing the emergence of deformations of the personal resource in childhood and adolescence are singled out. The phenomenon of family trouble is considered in its entirety, (in its open and hidden forms), including, in particular, both open and hidden social orphanhood. The specifics of the development of the "Image of Self", the emotional and motivational spheres of children and adolescents in situations of family troubles of various types are revealed. The dynamics of age indices of personal development during the transition from childhood to adolescence in the situation of family unhappiness has been studied. It has been established that the unfavorable family climate (emotional rejection of the child), which can cause distortions in the emotional sphere, the "Image of Self", communication with peers, is the key factor of deformation of the personal resource in childhood and adolescence. The main mechanism for the formation of deformations is the frustration of the child's basic need for acceptance and recognition.

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