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V UNDERSTANDING MENTAL HEALTH * health column from the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Childhood Depression "I am the biggest trouble­ maker in my family," said a worried-looking 10-year-old girl. "I cry a lot and feel weird a lot." Between spells of crying, a 12-year-old boy said, "I think I am the stupidist kid in class ... I never really try to kill myself, but sometimes 1 think to drown myself." A dejected 8-year-old girl declared: "I feel ugly and like a dumbbell . . . Sometimes I would like to kill my friends or my own stomach" or arm . . . Friends make fun of me all the time." These children were talking to child psychiatrists at the Nationals Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). They were children or grandchildren of recently admitted patients who had been referred by their doctor to the NIMH In­ tramural Research Program for observation and treatment of a depressive psychosis. More than half were con­ sidered "overtly depressed" at the time of the interview. Though the incidence of this disorder used to increase steadily with age, as a recent report points out. "the grow­ ing rate of depression in the young has brought about a peak period in youth that out­ strips middle age and is ex­ ceeded only by the elderly." It also was found that many children diagnosed as hyperactive may actually be depressed. Indications of depression in children--particularly when something has gone wrong at home, playground, or school--are quite common. Usually, though, these indica­ tions do not last long. The problem is judged to be de­ pressive illness if it continues for at least several months "and is associated with severe impairment of the child's scholastic and social adjust­ ment and with disturbances" in eating and sleeping. "In more serious cases the child's thinking is affected by feelings, of despair and hopelessness, general retardation, and, in the severe form, by suicidal thoughts," the NIMH report states. The pediatrician or family physician is in the best posi­ tion to detect early indications of childhood depression. Each knows the family's history and the parent-child relation­ ship "and can observe the child directly for any sign of depressive mood and behav­ ior." Also in a strategic posi­ tion is the school or child guidance clinic. The doctor's role may be particularly valuable in sus­ pected cases of masked de­ pression, "in which the child is usually regarded by the family (and often by the school) as delinquent or lazy." r Four West campus students received awards for the quality of entries in the National Scholastics Art competition conducted throughout the county. From left are Brian Freund, Debbie Wrecke, Anna Marie Kluth, Elaine Poulus and Art instructor Holly Walker. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLOBD was submitted locally for judging. Art instructor Holly Walker took one dozen pieces of her students' work to join the over 1,800 other local entrees from schools as far away as DeKalb to as near as Barrington. Work done by four West campus students received awards for their quality: Elaine Poulus, junior, pencil drawing, honorable mention; Bryan Freund, senior, mixed media, honorable mention; Debbie Wrecke, senior, pencil drawing, gold-key , Ann Kluth, junior, pencil drawing, gold- key Hallmark award, which is the highest honor to be bestowed locally. Debbie and Ann's drawings were displayed along with other winners for three weeks last March in a Meadowdale store. These national honors are the climax of a program which started with regional exhibitions across the country earlier this year. Submitted to the 57 regional sponsors was an estimated total of 150,000 en­ tries from schools in those areas. About 8,000 "blue- ribbon" finalists were selected by regional judges and for­ warded to New York for national judging. A group of 24 distinguished artists and art educators served on the judging panels in March. The work winning gold medals and Hallmark Honor Prizes will be displayed at Scholastic Magazines' fifty- PAGE 19 - PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY, JUNE 1,1S79 Tho Burn-Unit Team Providing Care To Burn Patients Thousands of Americans are seriously injured by fires each year and require intensive medical care. At Eugene Tal- madge Memorial Hospital in Augusta, Ga., for example, specially trained nurses work in the burn unit on a one-to- one basis monitoring respira­ tors and other lifesaving de­ vices. It isn't economical for Tal- madge to maintain a full quota of burn-unit nurses throughout the year because the ward's population ebbs and flows with the unit sometimes empty. Be­ cause of this, the hospital de­ pends on an outside source of nurses to supplement its own staff of six. Pat Offenburger, LPN, is one of these nurses. She's a mem­ ber of Homemakers Upjohn's burn-unit team. While Home- makers Upjohn is the country's largest provider of home health care, it also supplies nurses and aides to hospitals both on a planned and emergency basis. This service helps institutions lower costs and increase effici­ ency by streamlining perma­ nent staff size. "I went to Homemakers Up­ john looking for part-time work as a private-duty nurse in a hospital," says Ms. Offen­ burger. "I didn't reali/p that second annual National High School Art exhibition, to be held June 5-27 in the Union Carbide Exhibtion hall, 270 Park avenue, New York City such challenging hospital work was available through a tem­ porary agency." That was over a year ago. Since then. Ms. Offenburger has cared for 12 severely in­ jured patients. "My first patient had burns over 95 percent of his body," she said. "I was apprehensive when I received the assign­ ment, but once I went on duty. I didn't have time to be ner­ vous because his condition re­ quired all of my attention." Routine treatment for burn patients includes replacing body fluids and applying medi­ cated cream to the burns. /"When we don't bandage a patient." explained Ms. Offen­ burger, "we put a cage--called a cradle-- over the bum to pre­ vent covers from touching it. Lights surrounding the cradle keep the patient warm." The hospital Ls also con­ cerned about patients' mental attitudes. Some threaten sui­ cide. All receive counseling from psychologists and psychiatrists --even after discharge. "I do my part," Ms. Offen­ burger said. "I explain the healing process to my patients, tell them about such procedures as skin grafts and plastic re­ construction. I try to reassure them that they will recover and I talk about former pa­ tients of mine who have fully recuperated." Ms. Offenburger graduated from Seminole College in San- ford, Fla. She's been a nurse for four-and-a-half years, working most recently as a member of a hospital's inten­ sive-car? unit nursing critically ill patients. There is a special team effort between staff and Homemakers' nurses in the Talmadge burn unit. According to Ms. Offen­ burger. this relationship, based on total cooperation, results in a unit that is run efficiently. "My burn-unit experience has been very rewarding:," said Ms. Offenburger. "Havimg to work in such demanding situations has helped me professionally. I am a better^trurse--and per­ son-- because' of it." Gas, Too One New York service station displayed this sign of frustration: "We collect state, federal and local taxes. We also sell gasoline as a sideline." FORMAL WEAR RENTALS for ALL OCCASIONS feeld SStauflt ....tk ittM (jUffltt. 1214 N. Grren St., McHcnry Art Work Wins Honor Anna Marie Kluth, 16, a west campus student, is among those who won national recognition through the Scholastic Art Awards program conducted by Scholastic Magazines,Inc. to encourage creative expression among secondary-school students. She was one of 57 students who won the Hallmark Honor prize of $100 each for the best painting or drawing from each sponsored region. Anna Marie's entry was a drawing. The awards include 408 gold medals (mounted on walnut plaques) as well as 559 honorable mention certificates for outstanding work in pain­ ting, drawing, printmaking, design, sculpture and crafts. There was 85 tuition scholar­ ships granted by art schools and colleges. This year was the first year that McHenry high school entered. By the beginning of last February, student work Anna Marie Kluth, center, accepts check for $100 as winner of the Hallmark Honor prize for the best drawing from this region submitted in a national competition. 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