Razan Taofek
EAP1
Children’s problems
Reading Reaction Journal # 2
Your child _Bipolar Mood Disorder

Reference:
Your Child_Bipolar Mood Disorder(n-d.)American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.Retrieved on (Jan.30).From
http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/publication_store/your_child_bipolar_mood_disorder

Vocabulary:
Bipolar: systems or situations are dominated by tow strong and opposing opinions or elements.
Extreme: very great in degree or intensity.
Manic: if you describe someone as manic you mean that they do thing extremely quickly or energetically, often because they are very excited o anxious about something.
Hyperactive: is unable to relax and is always moving about or doing things.
Resembles: if one thing or person resembles another, they are similar to each other.
Irrational: unreasonable.
Destructive: something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage harm or injury.

Summary:
This article focuses on bipolar mood disorder, which is an uncommon disorder in children. When children are suffering from this disorder there are many different symptoms that they can experience like hyperactivity, aggressive in verbal communication, and delusions of grandeur along with many other things. There was also a small paragraph on the causes and consequences of the disorder. It then went on to explain the different methods of treatment. There were many options of therapy methods like individual psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral, group, and family for children to explore. A different way for them to get treatment that was mentioned in the article was medicine. But there were tests and things that had to be run on them to get the medicine. The last way was taking the child to the hospital, and that is only if they may be a risk to themselves or the people around them.

Reaction:

The article has a little section on the cause of bipolarity in children. This may be because this disorder is a gene disorder, and runs through the family. Also it may be because of the parenting style the child has. By the article having many ways of treatment it may give methods that can go along with different religious customs and habits. Some people may not like the idea of giving their children medicine, so they may choose from the many types of therapy. Something that stood out was the amount of medicine a child with bipolar disorder may have to take, because of the different things that come with it such as depression. There was good information in the article, and it may come into use for parents who need information on this disorder.