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71child psychiatry — 1. the branch of psychiatry specializing in the treatment of children. 2. psychiatric techniques used in therapy for children. * * * Branch of medicine concerned with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders of childhood. It arose as a… …
72imipramine — /i mip reuh meen /, n. Pharm. a tricyclic antidepressant, C19H24N2, used for the symptomatic relief of depression. [1955 60; contr. and rearrangement of iminodibenzyl and aminopropyl, components of the chemical name] * * * ▪ drug synthetic… …
73pyromania — pyromaniac /puy reuh may nee ak /, n. pyromaniacal /puy roh meuh nuy euh keuhl/, adj. /puy reuh may nee euh, mayn yeuh/, n. a compulsion to set things on fire. [1835 45; PYRO + MANIA] * * * ▪ psychological disorder impulse control disorder… …
74behaviour therapy — or behaviour modification Application of experimentally derived principles of learning to the treatment of psychological disorders and the control of behaviour. The concept, which has its roots in the work of Edward L. Thorndike, was popularized… …
75sibling rivalry — ▪ psychology intense competition among siblings for recognition and the attention of their parents. Sibling rivalry normally begins when a baby is introduced to a family and the older sibling fears the baby will replace him or her. The… …
76Drugs acting on cholinergic and adrenergic receptors — ▪ Table Drugs acting on cholinergic and adrenergic receptors type of drug mechanism of action common use(s) Cholinergic atropine cholinergic antagonist during anesthesia, to dry up secretions, prevent cardiac slowing, and dilate bronchi; during… …
77Enuresis — Involuntary urination, which may be caused by a variety of factors. These include disorders of the kidneys, bladder, or ureter; and poor control of the muscles that control release of urine. Enuresis is also occasionally associated with… …
78Fells Acres Day Care Center preschool trial — Fells Acres Day Care Center was located in Malden, Massachusetts, in the United States and was part of the day care sex abuse hysteria of the 1980s.[1][2][3] Violet Amirault (1923–1997) opened the facility in 1966.[4] Contents …
79Day-care sex-abuse hysteria — was a panic that occurred primarily in the 1980s and early 1990s featuring claims against daycare providers of satanic ritual abuse and several forms of child abuse.[1][2] A prominent case in Kern County, California, first brought the issue of… …
80Faith Chapel Church ritual abuse case — The Faith Chapel Church ritual abuse case was a case of a developmentally disabled individual charged with child sexual abuse in 1991 as part of the satanic ritual abuse moral panic. After a seven month long trial the accused was found not guilty …
