Obgyn Key

Visual Disability: Developmental and Behavioral Consequences Michael E. Msall I. Description of the problem. Legal blindness is defined as central visual acuity in the best eye with corrective lenses of…

Violence and Youth Peter Stringham I. Description of the problem. Parents are anxiously searching for sensible advice to keep their children safe in what they perceive as an increasingly violent…

Unpopularity Melvin D. Levine I. Description of the problem. Chronic rejection by peers condemns a child to a life of isolation, extreme self-doubt, and perpetual anxiety. The unpopular schoolchild is…

Toilet Training Steven Parker Laura Sices I. Description of the problem. Toilet training is one of the great developmental challenges of early childhood. After 2 years of glorious indifference to…

Tic Disorders and Tourette Syndrome Adrian Sandler I. Description of the problem. A. Definitional issues. 1. Tourette syndrome (TS). TS is a disorder with multiple motor tics and one or…

Thumb Sucking Stephanie Blenner I. Description of the problem. Most infants engage in nonnutritive sucking. They may use fingers, toes, a pacifier, or other object as a means of self-soothing….

Temperamentally Difficult Children Stanley Turecki I. Description of the problem. A “difficult child” is a normal young child whose innate temperament makes them hard to raise. Inherent in this definition…

Temper Tantrums Robert Needlman I. Description of the problem. Behaviors comprising temper tantrums include crying, yelling, stamping, stiffening, attacking self and others, throwing things, dropping to the floor, and running…

Suicide Heather Walter Phillip Hernandez Joanna Cole I. Description of the problem. Suicide ranks as the third and fourth leading cause of death among young people aged 15 to 24…