DSM Flashcards
Intellectual Disability
- Deficits in intellectual f(x) confirmed w/assessments
- Deficits in adaptive f(x) resulting in failure to meet societal and community standards of insurance across multiple realms
- Onset during dev period
Intellectual disability specifier
Severity: mild, mod, severe, profound
Intellectual disability assessments
Vineland adaptive behavior scale and the adaptive behavior assessment system
Communication disorder
aka childhood onset fluency disorder (stuttering)
- begins 2-7 months, worse under pressure
Autism spectrum disorder
- persistent deficits in social communication across multiple contexts
- restricted, reprice bc, interests, activities as manifested in 2
*motor movement, use of objects, speech, routine sameness, fixated interests, hypo/hyper sensory input - symptoms in early dev period
- impairment in social, job, or other areas due to symptoms
Autism assessments
- child autism rating scale
- autism behavior checklist
-autism diagnostic interview - autism diagnostic observation scale
ADHD
- pattern of inattention/hyperactivity for 6 months, onset prior to 12yo, present in 2 settings, and interferes with f(x)
- at least 6 symptoms:
*inattention: attn to detail, sustained attn in tasks, doesn’t listen when spoken to, school work incompletion, distracted by extra stimuli, forgetful in ADL
* hyper-impulsive; fidgets, leaves seat, run/climb, talks excessively, difficulty waiting, interrupts
Adhd specifiers
Predominantly inattentive: 6+ in that category and less in the other
Predominantly hyperactive/impulsive
Combined: 6 or more in both
Adhd assessments
Broad:
- bx assessment system for children
- child bx checklist
- Conner’s 3rd edition
Focused:
- adhd rating scale
- AD disorder Eval scales
- Stroop color-word association
Specific learning disability
- difficulties in academic realm even w/ interventions that last 6 mo and longer (ex: word reading, meaning of words, spelling)
- academic skills substantially lower than age
- interferes w/ academic/ occupational/ ADL
- began during school age
Specific learning disability specifiers
Impairment in reading
Impairment in written expression
Impairment in mathematics
Tic
Sudden, rapid, recurrent, non-rhythmic motor/vocal
Echokinesis, echolalia, coprolalia
Symptoms of some motor disorders
- copying bx
- copying sound
- socially inappropriate words
Tourette’s
- at least 1 vocal and multiple motor tics that can appear simultaneously or separately
- wax and wane, but must have persisted for 1 year
- onset before 18
Persistent (chronic) motor or vocal tic disorder
- single of multiple motor or vocal tics
- 1 year
- onset before 18