Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Diagnosis

Kutcher Generalised Social Anxiety Disorder Scale for ...

vasive developmental disorder. Patients con-sidered to be at-risk for suicide or homicide, and patients with a history of substance abuse or dependence within the preceding 3 months,

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Glossary - Mental Health Literacy

Antidepressant medicine: a medicine that is usually used to treat the symptoms of depression or anxiety disorders. The antidepressant called “fluoxetine” is considered to be the most useful for helping in adolescent depression. It usually takes 6 to 8 weeks for an antidepressant medicine to work in treating depression.

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MENTAL HEALTH & HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM GUIDE

Chair in Adolescent Mental Health and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center at Dalhousie University. Yifeng Wei, MEd, PhD is the Research and School Mental Health Lead of the Sun Life ... the mental health literacy of students in …

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MENTAL HEALTH & HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM GUIDE

5 USING THE GUIDE Using the Guide This section provides general information about the Guide and suggestions for its classroom application. Purpose: The Guide is intended to be used by classroom teachers who have been trained in its application to enhance the mental health literacy of students in grades nine and ten (ages 13 to 15). Structure:

The Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale (KADS)

sion Inventory (Kovacs, 1992), the 21–item Beck Depression Inventory (BDI; Beck et al. 1961) and the 20–item adult and child versions of the Center for Epidemiology Depression Scale (CES–D; Fendrich et al. 1990; Radloff 1977). None of these scales have good discriminative validity in adolescents (Brooks & Kutcher, 2001).

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Objectives for Anxiety

Indication generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder Starting dose 37.5-75 mg by mouth daily Can increase typically after 7 days Max dose 225 mg by mouth daily with the exception of social anxiety disorder. With Social Anxiety Disorder there is no evidence that doses above 75 mg provide additional benefit. 23 24

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Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED) …

A total score of ≥ 25 may indicate the presence of an Anxiety Disorder. Scores higher than 30 are more specific. A score of 7 for items 1, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 19, 22, 24, 27, 30, 34, 38 may indicate Panic Disorder or Significant Somatic Symptoms. A score of 9 for items 5, 7, 14, 21, 23, 28, 33, 35, 37 may indicate Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

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Guide to Understanding and Managing Anxiety

thinking that make stress and anxiety more manageable. For example, a person with panic disorder can learn that the panic attacks are not really heart attacks as previously feared. The behavioral component seeks to change people’s reactions to anxiety-provoking situations. A key element of this component is exposure, in which people

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