Sarah Aiwohi

Mental Health, Behavioral Disorders, and Substance Use Presentation

SCN-610
April 14, 2021
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Do you have a student who cannot stay in his or her own seat?
Who gets distracted while doing class work?
Or distracts classmates due to not raising his or her hand when answering a
question?
ADHD Characteristics and Manifestation

 DSM-5 Criteria:
 Inattention to detail and careless mistakes
 Difficulty listening when spoken to
 Easily distracted and forgetful
 Inability to stay seated
 Frequent fidgeting
 Talking out of turn or excessively

 Manifestation:
 As early as 3 years old
 Before the age of 12
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

 Has your student recently been through a traumatic event or experience?

 Are they easily irritable or have outbursts of anger?
 Do they deny the event that took place?
PTSD Characteristics and Manifestation

 Characteristics:
 Nightmares
 Easily startled
 Irritability
 Fear or avoidance of something/someone

 Manifestation
 After a traumatic even occurs
 Symptoms occur for longer than a month
Anxiety

 Do you have a student that is afraid to be away from his or her mom and dad
when coming to school?
 Does your student constantly worry about the future?
 Does your student have intense fear social situations or something specific?
Anxiety Characteristics and
Manifestation
 Characteristics:
 Extreme fear of being away from parents
 Extreme fear of specific thing or situation
 Extreme worry about the future

 Manifestation:
 Physically
 Mentally
Risk Factors

 Family history
 Medical conditions
 Stressful life situations
 Trauma
 Abuse or neglect
 Lack of family or friend support
Substance Abuse

 How to identify substance abuse in students:

 Lack of interest in activities that once were enjoyable
 Change in friend groups
 Significant drop in grades

 Markers of living with substance abuse:

 Not showing up for school or showing up late
 Not completing homework
 Not getting parent signatures
 Not being well groomed
Common Interventions and Treatments

 Cognitive therapy
 Behavioral therapy
 Social skills training
 Group and family therapy
Resources

 American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of

mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author.
 Cirulli, F., Laviola, G., & Ricceri, L. (2009). Risk factors for mental health:
Translational models from behavioural neuroscience. Neuroscience and
Biobehavioral Reviews, 33(4), 493–497. https://
doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.01.006
 Lander, L., Howsare, J., & Byrne, M. (2013). The impact of substance use
disorders on families and children: From theory to practice. Social Work in
Public Health, 28(3-4), 194–205. https://
doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2013.759005
 Monga S. (2005). Psychotherapy for children and adolescents: Evidence-based
treatments and case examples. The Canadian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Review, 14(4), 121–122.