Objective: Since siblings of children with ADHD have more behavioral, mood, and anxiety disorders and suffer from semi-clinical disorders, present research aim is to specification and evaluate mood and behavioral-emotional disorders in siblings of children with ADHD. Method: In this descriptive research, 28 children with ADHD who refer to work-therapy mental centers, children and adolescent neurologists, and child psychiatrists were examined. Data collection tools was Achenbach’s children behavioral and emotional disorders check list (1991). Result: Research findings show that effects depending on gender, birth order, and number of children is different; acceptance of the patient's older brothers were suitable but the intellectual problems, introverted behavior, and mood disorders were high; in younger brothers social problems, attention problems, abnormal behavior, aggression, defiance, and pertinacity were high. Their younger sisters were common in isolation-depression behavior, somatization, physical, and communicate problems and in the older sisters of the patients anxiety-depression, extroverted behavior, mood disorders, and anxiety problems were high. Conclusion: Research findings show that troubled behaviors of siblings are somewhat related to families.
کلید واژگان :Mood Disorders, Depression, Anxiety, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
ارزش ریالی : 600000 ریال
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