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Mindfulness sessions in Milan

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Mindfulness sessions in Milan for children and adolescents in order to improve attention, concentration and support the emotional balance.

Mindfulness in Milan is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.

Mindfulness is a quality that every human being already possesses, it’s not something you have to conjure up, you just have to learn how to access it.

While mindfulness is innate, it can be cultivated through proven techniques, particularly seated, walking, standing, and movingmeditation (it’s also possible lying down but often leads to sleep); short pauses we insert into everyday life; and merging meditation practice with other activities, such as yoga or sports.

When we meditate it doesn’t help to fixate on the benefits, but rather to just do the practice, and yet there are benefits or no one would do it. When we’re mindful, we reduce stress, enhance performance, gain insight and aware ness through observing our own mind, and increase our attention to others’ well-being.

Mindfulness meditation gives us a time in our lives when we can suspend judgment and unleash our natural curiosity about the workings of the mind, approaching our experience with warmth and kindness—to ourselves and others.

Trauma evaluation and treatment in Milan

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Trauma evaluation and treatment in Milan using psychotherapy sessions and EMDR therapy is provided for the treatment of traumatic disorders like PTSD.

EMDR is the eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and the therapy is an interactive psychotherapy in order to treat psychological stress and trauma.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.

Behavioral disorders evaluation and therapy in Milan

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Behavioral disorders evaluation and therapy in Milan is given in Lo Studio by special psychologists concerning children and adolescent with difficulties such as ODD, CD and ADHD.

Even the best-behaved children can be difficult and challenging at times. But if your child or teenager has a frequent and persistent pattern of anger, irritability, arguing, defiance or vindictiveness toward you and other authority figures, he or she may have oppositional defiant disorder (ODD).

As a parent, you don’t have to go it alone in trying to manage a child with ODD. Doctors, mental health professionals and child development experts can help.

Behavioral treatment of ODD involves learning skills to help build positive family interactions and to manage problematic behaviors. Additional therapy, and possibly medications, may be needed to treat related mental health disorders.

Conduct disorder (CD) is a mental disorder diagnosed in childhood or adolescence that presents itself through a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate norms are violated. These behaviors are often referred to as “antisocial behaviors.”

Behavior therapy is an effective treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that can improve a child’s behavior, self-control, and self-esteem. It is most effective in young children when it is delivered by parents.

Milan Emotional disorders

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Milan Emotional disorders evaluation and therapy is given to the kids experiencing academic and social problems like anger management and anxiety at school

Emotional disorder is a mental disorder in which one’s emotions are disturbed to a great extent. This disorder is not due to any abnormalities in the brain development or function. It is a psychological condition in which thoughts and emotions are not in the proper state. When the personality of an individual is exhibited by unduly emotional thinking and dramatic behavior, it is clearly an indication of overly emotional disorder.

Though the causes of emotional disorders are not very specific, there is a correlation between the disorders with certain causal factors like, exposure to prenatal drugs, experience of physical abuse, poverty, being neglected, parental stress, changing rules and expectations, confusion over long time and so on. The causes can be broadly categorized into biological, family, school or living environment.

LIST OF EMOTIONAL DISORDERS

Emotional disorders list would typically cover various types of emotional disorders in various stages – from childhood to adulthood. Several such emotional disorders in children are broadly categorized into conduct disorders, emotional disturbances, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, and so on. Though the list of overly emotional disorders in children is endless, the following are the frequently exhibited disorders.

CONDUCT DISORDERS

Children suffering from conduct disorders are mostly diagnosed with anti-social behaviors, namely aggressiveness, throwing tantrums, stealing, lying, and hostility, destructive and manipulative attitude. Their noncompliance to rules and indifference towards others poses a great challenge to teachers, leading to frustration and annoyance.

AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Emotional disorders list include improper eating habits, depression, and extreme stress; most of these lead to negative behavior in the individual’s personality. In children, the most commonly encountered psychiatric emotional disorder is the change of mood. It includes depression and bipolar disorder.

PERSONALITY DISORDERS

The rigid and pervasive behavior pattern exhibited is totally different from the cultural expectations, and results in distress. The disorder may be schizotypal, showing uneasiness in close relationships or borderline, marked by uncertainty in interpersonal relationship or dependent, exhibiting a highly clinging attitude with the need to be cared for.

ANXIETY DISORDERS

The most prevalent types of emotional disorders in children are anxiety disorder. The suffering children exhibit fear, shyness and nervousness. It includes phobia, panic, obsessive-compulsive disorders, separation anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER

Children exhibiting over activity and short span of attention are easily diverted and are unable to consolidate their schedules.

OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER

Children easily lose their temper and argue a lot with others. They are quickly irritated by others and express anger often.

How Are Emotional/Behavioral Diagnoses Made in Lo Studio?

A diagnosis will be made after careful review and integration of test data, observations, information gathered from multiple sources including your child or adolescent, family members, school personnel, and other mental health providers working with your child.

What Does an Emotional/Behavioral Evaluation Include?

-Clinical interviews (with you and your child/adolescent)

-Consultation with professionals, including teachers and other professionals working with your child/adolescent

-Objective testing measures, including behavior rating scales, self-report personality measures and measures of family functioning

-Assessment of early temperament, developmental history and psychosocial stressors

-Projective tests which are designed to provide insight about the unconscious processes that might be influencing your child’s behavior and emotions

What Can an Emotional/Behavioral Evaluation in Milan Tell Me About My Child?

Testing will provide clarity about your child’s diagnosis. In addition we will provide in-depth information about your child’s self-image, style of relating to others, coping skills and frustration tolerance, and thought processes.

This information will be invaluable to achieve a better understanding of why your child behaves as he/she does and can be beneficial in directing the course of treatment.

ADHD Evaluation and therapy in Milan

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ADHD Evaluation and therapy in Milan in order to diagnose and treat attention and hyperactivity related disorders.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterized by two groups of symptoms, or psychopathological dimensions, defined as inattention and impulsivity/hyperactivity.

The inattention (or easy distractibility) is manifested above all by the lack of attention to detail and the inability to carry out the actions taken.

Children constantly appear distracted, as if they always have something else in mind, avoid performing activities that require attention to particulars or organizational skills, frequently lose significant objects, or forget important activities.

The impulsiveness of the Hyperactive Child Milan manifests itself as difficulties in organizing complex actions, with a tendency to change quickly from one activity to another and difficulty waiting for your turn in situations of play and/or group activity. Such impulsivity is generally associated with hyperactivity. They are children who appear “like moved by a moped”, they struggle to sit in their seats and have difficulty in respecting the rules, times and spaces of their peers.

All these symptoms are not caused by cognitive deficit (mental retardation), but by objective difficulties in self-control and planning ability.

The inability to stay alert and control impulses means that children with ADHD have a lower school yield and develop their cognitive abilities more difficultly. Frequently these children show little ability to use the norms of social coexistence, especially in those abilities that consist in capturing those non-verbal social indices that modulate interpersonal relationships.

This results in significant interference in the quality of the relationships between these children and the world around them. The problematic relationship with others, the difficulties of school, the constant reproaches on the part of the authorities, the sense of inadequacy to counter this with their own abilities cause these children to develop a sense of demoralization and anxiety, which further accentuates their difficulties.

Lo Studio offers, through a team of specialists of the Evolutionary Age (Child Neuropsychiatrist, Psychologists specialized in psychopathology of learning, pedagogist, Speech therapists), a multidisciplinary evaluation that includes:

DIAGNOSIS

When it is suspected that a hyperactive child in Milan may be suffering from attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity, it is necessary:

Collect information from multiple sources (parents, teachers, educators), using semi-structured interviews and/or standardised questionnaires on different aspects of the child’s behaviour and social functioning (e.g. Conner’s Teacher, Rating Scale- Revised and Conner’s Parent Rating Scale);
Conduct an interview (psychological examination) with the child to check for other associated disorders; Standardized child self-assessment scales (anxiety, depression, etc.) can be useful (e.g. Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children, MASC, 1997; Children Depression Inventory, CDI, Self-Administration Psychiatric Scales for Children and Adolescents SAFA, Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia, Present and Life-time version K-SADS-PL).
Evaluate cognitive abilities and learning abilities; objectively assess attentive, task planning and self-control skills. Sometimes it can be useful to evaluate the possible presence of language disorders. It is always appropriate to measure the cognitive level of the subject with standardized tools (Raven Progressive Matrices or, better, WIPPSI, WISC-IV or WAIS-IV) and evaluate the writing, reading and comprehension skills of the text (differential diagnosis with specific learning disorders that can simulate, but also be associated with a attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity).
Carry out the medical and neurological examination, assessing the presence of any associated pathologies and the effects of any other therapies in place.

THE TREATMENT

From the age of 6, psychostimulant drug therapy is effective.

The most effective non-pharmacological therapeutic strategies consist of:

– psychoeducational interventions of parent training
– counselling and training of teachers

– structuring of laboratories aimed at rehabilitation.

THE PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES:

– increase personal autonomy and self-esteem;
– decrease disruptive and inappropriate behaviour;
– improving school learning skills (quantity of knowledge, accuracy and completeness of learned notions, efficiency of study methods);
– improving interpersonal relationships with parents, siblings, teachers and peers;
– improve the social acceptability of the disorder and the quality of life of affected children/adolescents.