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If your child exhibits one or more of the undermentioned symptoms or faces any of the issues, now is the time to check on them.

Habit disorders

  • Thumb sucking
  • nail biting
  • other purposeless movement disorders

Anxiety Disorders

  • Separation anxiety
  • school refusal
  • performance anxiety
  • phobic disorders
  • obsessive and/or compulsive disorders

Emotional

  • temper tantrums, breath-holding spasms
  • Depression in childhood and adolescent age
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (A.D.H.D.)
  • Disruptive disorders
  • Oppositional defiant disorders
  • Conduct Disorders
    • Disobedience
    • Stealing
    • lying

Speech and Language disorders

  • delayed speech
  • wrong pronunciation
  • stammering

Eating disorders

  • overeating
  • refusal to eat
  • food fads (making fuss about type of food)

Somatoform Disorders

  • physical symptoms due to underlying psychological causes; e.g., hysteria.

Sleep disorders

  • insomnia
  • nightmares
  • night terrors
  • sleepwalking

Problems of scholastic performance

  • Learning Disabilities (LD)
    • Dyslexia
    • Reading
    • Writing
    • Spelling
    • mathematical difficulties

Elimination disorders

  • nocturnal enuresis
  • bed wetting
  • faecal soiling

Substance-use disorder

  • alcohol, opium, caffeine etc.

Addictions

  • Mobile Phones
  • Games
  • TV
  • Internet
  • Doing drugs

Other Symptoms & Issues

  • Aggressive Behavioural Tendencies
  • Anxiety
  • Avoiding Responsibilities
  • Behavioural Issues
  • Bullying
  • Complexes
  • Concentration Issues
  • Dependability Issues
  • Difficulty in Studies
  • Lack of Attention
  • Narcissism
  • Phobias
  • School Refusal
  • Self-care Issues
  • Short Temperedness
  • Sibling Rivalry
  • Smoking
  • Stubbornness
  • Time Management Issues

Developmental disorders

Disorders like mental retardation require special individualized educational and vocational counselling

Pervasive Developmental Disorders

  • Autism
  • organic brain disorders
  • disintegrative disorders

Children in stress, and under special circumstances – adoption, custodial care, foster parenting etc.

Remember - It is better to build a child than to repair a broken adult.