8. Child Psych Flashcards
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IQ for mild ID
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55-70
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IQ for moderate ID
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40-55
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IQ for severe ID
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25-40
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IQ for profound ID
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<25
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What are the features of a patient with mild ID?
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educable with special assistance (can read, write and do simple math); can hold a job and live independently
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What are the features of a patient with moderate ID?
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Can talk, recognize name, perform basic hygeine,do laundry, and handle small change; need to live in supervised group or with family
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What are features of severe or profound ID?
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unable to complete self help; likely to require institutionalization
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In what 4 areas do patients with ID have limitations?
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- Communication
- Self-care
- Life skills
- Health and safety skills
9
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Mild ID is more common in what group?
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low SES (more common to have exposures to lead, malnutrition, poor prenatal care, etc)
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True or false: the cause of moderate/profound/severe ID is often unidentifiable
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FALSE: mild ID often does not have an identifiable cause
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What is the most common cause of ID overall?
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FAS
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What is the most common chromosomal cause of ID?
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Down Syndrome
13
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What is the most common heritable form of mental retardation?
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Fragile X Syndrome
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What prenatal factors can lead to ID?
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substance use and abuse; maternal malnutirion and illness; exposure to mutagens
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What perinatal and early postnatal factors lead to ID?
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traumatic delivery, brian injury, infecitons, head injury, exposure to toxins, malnutrition
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What are common comorbidities of ID?
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ADHD Disruptive behavior disorders mood disorders anxiety disorders seizures
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True or false: the prognosis of patients with ID can be improved by changes in environment
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TRUE
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Definition: inability to achieve in a particular academic area at the level predicted by an individual’s cognitive abilities
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Learning Disorders
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How do you properly diagnose someone with a learning disorder?
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require standardized IQ and achievement testing
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What areas can a specific learning disorder fall under?
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reading
written expression
math
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What gender more commonly gets a learning disorder?
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males 2-4X > females
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What are the comorbidities of learning disorders?
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ADHD
Mood Disorders
Truancy, school refusal and substance abuse (possibly associated with frustration due to school difficulty and failure)
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How do you “treat” a learning disorder?
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special education
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Definition: impairment in comprehension and/or use of a spoken, written or other verbal symbol
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Language disorder
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How do receptive and expressive language disorders differ?
receptive (taking info in); expressive (getting info out)
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Definition: poor articulation or pronunciation
speech sound disorder
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Example: wight for right, toat for coat
substitution
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Example: crat for cat; brlu for blue
distortions
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Example: oke for joke; inging for singing
omissions
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Example: aluminininum for aluminum
additions
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What is the proper term for stuttering?
child onset fluency disorder
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What may be seen in children with child onset fluency disorder?
occasional secondary characteristics or tics like stamping foot to get word out
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Definition: qualitative impairment in social interaction and social communicaiton due to restricted, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities
autism spectrum disorder
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When do symptoms of ASD usually develop?
usually in early development (parents notice problems with social interactions in first few months of life--no developing pattern of smiling or responding to cuddling)
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What symptom commonly leads parents to seek medical attention?
failure to develop spoken language
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What gender more commonly has ASD?
males 3-4X more likely
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True or false: the majority of ASD patients have some mental retardation
true (70%)
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True or false: the majority of ASD patients have seizures
false (25% have comorbid seizure disorder)
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What are some signs that may suggest ASD in children?
- Rigid commitment to maintaining special routines
- Lining up toys
- Odd way of playing with a toy (focus on tiny part and not use toy the way it is meant to be used)
- Hand flapping
- Unresponsive to emotions of others
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Definition: seen only in females and characterized by 6 months of normal development followed by regression
Rett's disorder
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Definition: 2 years normal development followed by regression
Childhood disintegrative disorder
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Definition: mild or high functioning autistic disorder (impairment in social interactions with NO clinically significant delay in language or cognitive developments)
Asperger's Disorder
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When and how do you screen for ASD?
18 months (screen with IQ and speech development by age 2)
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What is Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder?
-Marked deficits in social communication with NO additional criteria for ASD
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True or false: you can use pharmacotherapy to treat autism
FALSE: you CANNOT TREAT AUTISM, but you can help with symptoms like seizures, sleep problems, aggression, etc
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When should you begin intense behavioral therapy with autistic children?
as early as possible (from home)--leads to best outcome
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What are risk factors for disruptive behavior disorders?
inconsistent discipline, poor supervision, high family conflict, parental criminality/ alcoholism/ drug abuse/psychopathology, low family warmth or supportiveness, low parental acceptance, low IQ
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How do you treat disruptive behavior disorder?
- Behavioral management training for parents and child
| - Multisystemic therapy
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Definition: significant difficulty focusing and maintaining attention + significant hyperativity and impulsivity
ADHD
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What are the diagnostic restrictions on ADHD?
symtpoms present before age 12
| impairment occurring in at least two areas
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What gender more commonly has ADHD?
males 3X more common
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Does ADHD have a genetic component?
yes! it runs in families (genes related to DA have been implicated--girls have stronger family history than boys and it is associated with familial mood disorder, learning disorder, substance use and antisocial personality disorder)
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What are non-environmental risk factors for ADHD?
- Maternal smoking, ETOH and drug abuse
- Complications during delivery
- Exposure to toxins or viral infections
- Maternal malnutrition
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True or false: ADHD is associated with increased incidence of academic failure, relationship problems, legal problems, substance abuse, injuries, MVAs, and job problems
TRUE
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Examples: difficulty in planning, starting or stopping activities, managing behavior, persisting on tasks, etc.
executive functioning deficits
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Examples: frequent mistakes/failure to pay close attention, difficulty sustaining attention, fails to finish work or follow directions, unorganized, misplaces items, easily distracted
Inattention
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Examples: figiting or squirming, leaves seat, difficulty being quiet in leisure activities, talks excessively, shouts out answers out of turn (and can't wait turn), interrupts, runs instead of walks
hyperactivity/impulsivity
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What are some comorbidities of ADHD?
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (60%)
- Anxiety disorder
- Depressive disorder
- Learning disability
- Conduct disorder
- Substance use disroder
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True or false: 50% of ADHD have good outcome and complete school
TRUE
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What is the prognosis for ADHD?
33% have it for life
33% have some symptoms for life
33% have full remission by adolescence and adulthood
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How do you treat ADHD?
- Behavioral modification with child and parents
- Classroom accommodations
- Medications (stimulants)
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Definition: a pattern of negativeistic, hostile and defiant behavior lasting at least 6 months, during which 4 (or more) characteristic factors are present
Oppositional defiant disorder
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What are some characteristic factors of oppositional defiant disorder?
- Often loses temper
- Often argues with adults
- Often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult's requests or rules
- Often deliberately annoys people
- Often blames others for their mistakes or behavior
- Often is touchy or easily annoyed by others
- Often is angry and resentful
- Often is spiteful or vindictive
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When is ODD usually diagnosed?
before age 8 (almost always before adolescence)
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What gender has ODD more commonly?
males 3X > females
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What is required for diagnosis of ODD?
-Demonstration of a clear pattern of negativistic and defiant behavior over a significant period of time (to a much greater degree than most children their age)
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ODD is commonly comorbid with what condition?
ADHD
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Definition: repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated
Conduct disorder
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What gender more commonly gets conduct disorder?
males (with gender ratio widening as offenses get more serious)
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When does child onset conduct disorder begin?
prior to age 10
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What is the time line for conduct disorder?
3 or more criteria in the past 12 months with at least one criteria present in the past 6 months
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What are the major characteristics of conduct disorder?
- Aggression to people or animals
- Destruction of property
- Serious violation of the rules
- Deceitfulness or theft
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What are the comorbidities of conduct disorder?
learning disorders
ADHD
mood disorder
substance abuse
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Amost half of children with conduct disorder develop what in adult hood?
antisocial personality disorder (with number of CD symptoms and early age of onset increasing likelihood)
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Defintion: persistent eating of non-nutritive substances for a period of at least 1 month
pica
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Definition: repeated regurgitation and re-chewing of food for a period of at least 1 month following a period of normal functioning
rumination disorder
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How old do you have to be to be diagnosed with enuresis?
at least 5 yo
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What is the most effective treatment for enuresis?
enuresis alarms (behavioral treatments)
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What medications can be used to treat enuresis?
DDAVP or desmopressin
| imipramine
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When do you start giving medicine to treat enuresis?
wait until age 6-7 (especially in boys)
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How old do you have to be to be diagnosed with encopresis?
at least 4 yo
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What is required for diagnosis of Tourette's Disorder?
- both multiple and 1 or more vocal tic during the illness (not necessarily concurrent)
- BEFORE 18 yo
- Occurs many times a day nearly every day or intermittently throughout a period of >1 year and during that period there was never a tic-free period of more than 3 consecutive months
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True or false: up to 20% of children experience simple tics
TRUE
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When do motor tics typically develop?
3-8 yo (and vocal tics several years after)
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When do symtpoms peak in Tourette's disorder?
in adolescence
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Definition: does not meet criteria for Tourette's because either motor or vocal tics are present (not both)
chronic motor or vocal tic disorder
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What do you call it when a child has not had symptoms long enough to classify as having Tourette's disorder?
transient tic disorder
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How do you treat tic disorders?
- Alpha adrenergic agonists (clonidine, guanfacine)
| - Neuroleptics (haloperidol, pimozine)
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What is the prognosis for Tourette's disroder?
20% have remission in 20s
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How does separation anxiety differ from separation anxiety disorder?
Separation anxiety is a normal developmental feature (at 9 mo). Separation anxiety disorder is a level of anxiety out of proportion for a child's developmental level
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How long must symptoms last to diagnose separation anxiety disorder?
at least 4 weeks
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When does separation anxiety disorder more commonly develop?
onset as early as preschool; adolescent onset uncommon (may develop after stressful life event
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How many symptoms are required for diagnosis of separation anxiety disorder?
3 or more symtpoms associated with dreams, obsessions, and physical symptoms that center around being separated from or harm befalling major attachment figures
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Defintion: consistent failure to speak in specific social situations (when there is an expectation for speaking) despite speaking in other situations
selective mutism (will often speak at home and nowhere else)
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What causes selective mutism?
often a combination of anxiety and defiance
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Defintion: childhood trauma/stressor related disorder characterized by disturbed and developmentally inappropriate social relatedness
Reactive attachment disorder of infancy or early childhood
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What are the age restrictions on diagnosis of Reactive attachment disorder of infancy or early childhood?
before age 5, symtpoms must occur
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What is the risk factor for Reactive attachment disorder of infancy or early childhood?
grossly pathologic care
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What are features of an inhibited child with Reactive attachment disorder of infancy or early childhood?
child fails to initiate and respond to social interactions in a developmentally appropriate way
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What are features of a disinhibited child with Reactive attachment disorder of infancy or early childhood?
child exhibits indiscriminate sociability or a lack of selectivity in the choice of attachment figures
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Definition: motor behavior that is repetitive, seemingly driven and non-functional that interferes with normal activities or results in self-inflicted bodily injury that requires medical treatment
stereotypic movement disorder
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What are the comorbidities associated with stereotypic movement disorder?
intellectual disability
