Thursday, February 2, 2012

HABIB CHILD AND TEENAGE CLINIC

HABIB CHILD AND TEENAGE CLINIC provides expert diagnosis and care to children, teens and young adults, helping families raise healthy children and teens, specializes in meeting the unique physical, emotional, educational, developmental and behavioural needs of children and teens. The mission is to provide top quality care to every child and teenager upto twenty years of age.

YOUR CHILD WELL BEING AFFECTS YOUR WHOLE FAMILY
Our approach is to set clear goals for your child and teenager and to provide short-term treatment and counseling. If your child needs long-term care we connect you with experts to meet your child's needs.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Your child's brain control what he thinks, feels and acts, how he learns and remembers and the way he moves and talks and the amount of stress, tension and emotional upsets he experiences in his day-to-day life.
FORE-BRAIN  controls intelligence, memory, personality, emotion, speech and the ability to feel, think and act.
LEFT BRAIN  concerns with logical, analytical and mathematical thinking.
RIGHT BRAIN concerns with intuitive, creative and imagination.
children and teenagers are either right-brained or left-brained or whole brained. Their educational success or success in life depends on analysing this important field. Neurons making connections relay information to each other  affect the way the child thinks, learns, moves and behaves. Your child's learning abilities, intelligence, memory, attention, concentration in studies and the ability to communicate with others depends on the neuro-development integration.

DELAY IN SPEECH DEVELOPMENT
Speech is verbal expression. Language means verbal, non-verbal, and writing abilities
SPEECH - LANGUAGE DISORDER
Trouble in hearing means, trouble in understanding, imitating and using language. Communication needs understanding and being understood by parents, teachers and others.
WATCH YOUR CHILD FOR THIS DEFECTS
What your child understands (receptive language)
What your chil can say (expressive language)
Your child's oral-motor status (lips, tongue, jaw and throat)
SPEECH DEVELOPMENT is a mixture of family genes and the environment. (genetics generally determine intelligence, speech and language) When speech, language, hearing or developmental problems do exist, early medical attention and intervention can provide the help the child needs. If your child finds difficulty in conversing or communicating others with words, just do the simple tests and observe your child.
SIMPLE TESTS FOR THE MOTHER
child uses 20 words in 18 months
                50 words in 02years
speak two word sentence in 2 years and easily obey commands and instruction in the same year.
speak small sentences in 2-3 years time
identify colours, understands differences and smilarities.
wave bye-bye in 12 months
prefer gestures in 18 months
imitate sounds in  18 months
understand verbal requests in 2 years.

TEENAGE PROBLEMS
Teenage is a time of transition from childhood to adulthood. Children and teenagers nowadays face lot of confusion and uncertainty in thinking and feeling result in disturbance in their emotional health. Today's world of broken-homes, divorse, child abuse, mobile-internet misuse, unsafe sex, drugs and alcohol abuse brings unimaginable stress and tension in their day-to-day life. Modern day teenagers have strong desire to be independent. That leads to lot of conflicts in children and teenagers

TEENAGE STRESS
Children with emotional stress show
1 Anxiety disorders, phobias, fear and panic
2 School troubles
3.running away from homes
4.difficult concentrating in studies
5.attention deficit
6.drugs and alcohol abuse
7.internet addiction
8.low self-esteem, low self-confidence and inferiority complex
                                                         9.rekless behaviour and at times depression and violence.
WE PROVIDE SPECIALISED CARE WHEN YOUR CHILD FACES THESE PROBLEMS
Attention deficit
Autism
Anxiety disorders
Behavioural problems
Emotional problems
Excessive shyness
Developmental disabilities
Growth disorders
Learning difficulties
Lack of confidence
Negative outlook
Obesity
Speech and language problems
Sleep problems
School worries and backwardness in studies

ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY

Teenage is the second decade of life, starting just before teenage. Modern day teenager faces lot of stressful emotional disturbances during this period. As their body and mind changes - their thinking and feeling styles also got changed. Some children and teenagers find that their chilhood problems are still troubling them. They may find it difficult to tell their worries either to their parents or teachers.
Whatever your problems are, our medical team is here to help and make your life less tension free and make growing up as fun exciting and rewarding.

PROGRAMMES, THERAPIES AND TRAINING WORKSHOPS

TEENAGE WELLNESS CLINIC
Focuses on lifelong good habits that make children and teens feel healthy, happy, motivated to positive life-style, body image and esteem.
BEHAVIOURAL HEALTH
helps children and teens to handle issues like hyperactivity, lack of concentration in studies, distraction, low grades in school, anxiety and depression.
DRUGS ABUSE
Our clinic has special programmes to deal with teenagers who smoke,drink or take drugs. Programmes deals with individual counseling and parental counseling.

Parents are invited to join FAMILY ADVISORY GROUP. and offer advise as a parent to help other family members to support and provide family-centered care.
BIOFEEDBACK
It is a method that teaches children and adolescents to feel their emotions and watch their disturbing thoughts and how to control it when it disturbs their mind and body. They are able to understand their own problems and they may find it easy to control not only their bad emotions but also their errant and disturbing behaviours.Some types of headaches, bodyaches, fatigue, low energy and exhaustion, worries and general tiredness can easily be corrected and rectified.


PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT OF AN EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED TEENAGER

1.  easily upsts by bad moods
2.  thinks inferior,low and unworthy
3.  prone to jealousy and envy
4.  indulge in violence and destruction
5.  burst into fits and tears without reason
6.  jumps into fights and arguments 
7.  overreacts to irritation and frustration
8.  violates rules and regulations
9.  succumbs to bad habits
10.disobey parents and teachers
11.susceptible to rage and anger
12.no concern for other's feelings
                                        13.low confidence and esteem
                                        14.indecisive,irritable,irresponsible,inactive and indifferent
These youngsters are emotionally incompetent, prone to drugs and alcohol to soothen their bad emotions.
TEENAGE BAD EMOTIONS
Teenage is an age of  anxiety, modern day epidemic in young children and teens result in not just unhappiness or sadness but restlessness,weakness, helplessness and hopelessness. Depressed teenagers generally not intereted in talking about their unhappiness or sadness either with their parents nor with their teachers and friends. They are more irritable, impatient and angry towards their parents and caregivers. They can't tolerate life's small failures and even a bad grade in academic performance. Fear, worry, anger and anxiety alters the physiology of the body and psychology of the mind.
FEAR            sabotages academic performance
WORRY       interferes with clear thinking
ANGER        ends in violence
ANXIETY    undermines intellect
AGONY       alters memory
DOUBT        destroys trust

TEENAGE BEHAVIOURAL DISORDERS
Teenage agonies and behavioural isorders are the the newage untold emotional crisis a modern day child and teenager faces in his day-to-day life. Emotional stress and bad moods alters the student's life-style, shatters his self-image and self-esteem and lowers his mental and academic performance.



DR.V.F.HABIBULLAH
senior consultant paediatrician and adolescent psychologist
speaks to teenage youngsters and teachers, how to identify
the common teenage emotional upsets, and behavioural problems
and to correct it in time before it affects their personality,
physical,mental and emotional well-being.