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Child/AdolscentD's
Child and Aolscent Disorders
Question | Answer |
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Developmental Psychopathology looks at | behaviour, learning, envrionment/family systems, child (biological), cognitive, brain and emotional |
Key ideas of developmental psychopathology | developmental pathways (continuity vs. discontinutity), levels of analysis and influence (envrionment, person and envrionment-person interactions), normative developmental tasks and risk (vulnerability) vs. protective (resilience) factors |
Intellectual disability | significant subaverage intellectual functioning, concurrent delays in adaptive skills, onset prior to age 18 |
Borderline Intellectual functions | Other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention, IQ: 71-84, lower than average intellectual functioning, difficult to detect |
Sepecific learning difficulties | variety of disorders: reading, maths, written expression. Significantly lower performance than expected, interferes with achivement and daily activities |
Autism Spectrum disorders | Range of pervasive developmental disorders that share similar features. Delays (prior to age 3) in social interaction, social communication and symbolic imagination. Restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behaviour, interests and activities |
Asperger's | Impaired social relationships and resricteed or unusual behaviours or activities, IQ scores within the normal range, no language delay, cognitive impairment, adaptive functioning deficit. |
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) | Either 6 or more symptoms of inattention that are maladaptive and inconsistent with development level or 6 or more symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity that are maladaptive and inconsistent with development level. Impairment before age 7, in 2+ settings |
Mental Retardation | Significantly subaverage functioning and concurrent deficits in adaptive functioning |