Mutism - Therapy
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Silent suffering: understanding and treating children with selective mutism.

30 Jan 2009 Children with selective mutism (SM) restrict speech in some social environments, often resulting in substantial academic and social impairment. Although SM is considered rare, one or more children with SM can be found in most elementary schools. ... Read more...

Recent findings in social phobia among children and adolescents.

30 Dec 2008 Childhood social phobia (SP) is common and associated with varying forms of impairment. The cause of social anxiety disorder is often complex, involving both genetic and environmental factors. Shyness in young children may be a possible precursor to ... Read more...

Selective mutism: a review and integration of the last 15 years.

28 Sep 2008 Selective mutism (SM) is a rare childhood disorder characterized by a lack of speech in one or more settings in which speaking is socially expected. A comprehensive and uniform theory about the etiology, assessment, and treatment of SM does not ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mutism - Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Silent suffering: understanding and treating children with selective mutism. 30 Jan 2009
• Recent findings in social phobia among children and adolescents. 30 Dec 2008
• ["Selective mutism--when children are speechless"] 29 Nov 2008
• Selective mutism: a review and integration of the last 15 years. 28 Sep 2008
• Easing the burden of social anxiety disorder. 30 Aug 2008
• Selective mutism and the anxiety spectrum--a long-term case report. 30 May 2008
• [Progressive anarthria: an individual entity] 5 May 2008
• Selective mutism: a consensus based care pathway of good practice. 30 Apr 2008
• A controlled single-case treatment of severe long-term selective mutism in a child with mental retardation. 18 Apr 2008
• Parental responses to positive and negative emotions in anxious and nonanxious children. 30 Mar 2008
• 'More than 100 years of silence', elective mutism: a review of the literature. 18 Mar 2008
• Speech and language functions that require a functioning Broca's area. 3 Mar 2008
• The idiot's dreams: rêverie in child psychotherapy. 28 Feb 2008
• Examination of a social problem-solving intervention to treat selective mutism. 28 Feb 2008
• Treatment of selective mutism: focus on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. 30 Jan 2008
• Group therapy for selective mutism - a parents' and children's treatment group. 23 Jan 2008
• [Treatment of selective mutism] 30 Oct 2007
• [When children do not want to speak] 31 Jul 2007
• Don't look back in anger: learning from my mistakes with Mark and his family. 29 Jun 2007
• Practitioner review: Psychosocial interventions for children with selective mutism: a critical evaluation of the literature from 1990-2005. 30 Oct 2006

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Technical information about 'Mutism'

Definition: The inability to generate oral-verbal expression, despite normal comprehension of speech. This may be associated with BRAIN DISEASES or MENTAL DISORDERS. Organic mutism may be associated with damage to the FRONTAL LOBE; BRAIN STEM; THALAMUS; and CEREBELLUM. Selective mutism is a psychological condition that usually affects children characterized by continuous refusal to speak in social situations by a child who is able and willing to speak to selected persons. Kussmal aphasia refers to mutism in psychosis. (From Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr 1994; 62(9):337-44)

Descriptor UI: D009155

Alternative terms: Mutism; Mutisms; Selective Mutism; Mutism, Selective; Mutism, Voluntary; Mutisms, Voluntary; Voluntary Mutism; Voluntary Mutisms; Mutism, Elective; Elective Mutism; Elective Mutisms; Mutisms, Elective; Mutism, Organic; Mutisms, Organic; Organic Mutism; Organic Mutisms; Kussmaul Aphasia; Aphasia, Kussmaul; Kussmaul's Aphasia; Aphasia, Kussmaul's; Kussmauls Aphasia; Mutism, Conversion; Conversion Mutism; Conversion Mutisms; Mutisms, Conversion;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.606.150.500.800.500; C23.888.592.604.150.500.800.500; F03.550.700;

History Note: 1969(1963)