Conditions Encountered
The families seeking help from New Dawn Family Support Service are faced with a very wide range of conditions affecting a child, a young person or an adult in the household.
Our aim is to help family members to manage the emotional difficulties surrounding the family. We try to be informed about the condition but we are not experts. Parents and carers are the real experts in how the condition presents and how it is described.
The table below lists some of the descriptions used in conversations with New Dawn counsellors. You might recognise a description that applies in your family experience.
Condition Described |
18p Minus Syndrome |
ADHD |
Anxiety |
Asperger Syndrome |
Attachment Difficulties |
Autism |
Batten’s Disease |
Behavioural Difficulties |
Bereavement |
Blindness |
Bullying |
Cardiac Abnormalities |
Cerebral Palsy |
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease |
Constipation |
CVA |
Cystic Fibrosis |
Deafness |
Depression |
Diabetes |
Down Syndrome |
Duchene MD |
Dyslexia |
Dyspraxia |
Encopresis |
Enuresis |
Epilepsy |
Fanconi Anaemia |
Global Developmental Delay |
Grief |
Hunter’s Syndrome |
Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury |
Incontinence |
Kleinfelter’s Syndrome |
Krabbe’s Disease |
Learning Difficulties |
Leukaemia |
Loss and Separation |
Menkes Syndrome |
Medullablastoma |
Microcephalus |
Multiple Sclerosis |
Neuromigrational Disorder |
Opositional Defiant Disorder |
Pheochromocytoma |
Sanfilippo Syndrome |
Stroke |
Suicidal Tendencies |
Talipese |
T-cell non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma |
Tourette Syndrome |
Ulcerative Colitis |
Wiedemann Rautenstrauch Syndrome |
XXYY Syndrome |
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