Eating disorders are mental health conditions that affect eating behaviours, attitudes towards food, body image, and physical and psychological well-being. Early identification and appropriate multidisciplinary intervention can be particularly important during childhood and adolescence.
Mood disorders involve significant disturbances in emotional state and may include depressive and bipolar disorders. In children and adolescents, symptoms can sometimes present differently from those typically observed in adults and require careful clinical assessment.
Adjustment disorders involve emotional or behavioural symptoms that develop in response to an identifiable stressful event or significant life change. In children and adolescents, these may occur following experiences such as parental separation or divorce, relocation, changing schools, family difficulties, or other significant transitions.
Internalizing disorders include emotional difficulties that are primarily experienced internally. They commonly emerge during childhood or adolescence and may include symptoms of anxiety, depression, social withdrawal, excessive worry, fear, and emotional distress.
Externalizing disorders are characterized by behavioural difficulties that are expressed outwardly. These may include impulsivity, aggression, oppositional behaviour, difficulties with emotional and behavioural regulation, and problems following age-appropriate rules and expectations.
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