Category: Epilepsy
COPING WITH EPILEPSY: COUNSELING THE YOUNGER CHILD
“Whether counseling a younger child is different from counseling a teenager depends on the age of the child, the child’s level of understanding, and the child’s problems. Let me tell you about Jenny, who was nine years old when I first met her. She was a bright youngster, one of four children. Her mother was [...]
COPING WITH EPILEPSY: COUNSELING THE YOUNGER CHILD – JEB’S CASE HISTORY
“There’s another child I want to tell you about. Remember Jeb ? He was only six. He had the mildest of seizures, just a few absence seizures, and he was adorable. But what an anxious family. Mom, a former nurse, read everything available and learned of allergic reactions to medication the doctors had never seen [...]
THE DEFINITION OF EPILEPSY
Although we hope that such gases will never be used, we have deliberately introduced the topic at this point to explain the difference between the diagnosis of ‘an epileptic seizure, and the diagnosis of ‘epilepsy’. It would clearly be ridiculous to label as ‘epileptics’ those soldiers who had convulsed on exposure to the nerve gas. [...]
