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Schizophrenia

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  • a neurodevelopmental disorder of the brain- expressed in abnormal mental functions and disturbed behaviour
  • characterized by severe psychotic symptoms, bizarre delusions, hallucinations, thought disturbances, grossly disorganized behaviour or catatonic behaviour, extremely inappropriate or flat affect, and significant deterioration or impairment in functioning
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Child onset schizophrenia (COS)

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  • rarer and possibly more severe (but not distinct) form of schizophrenia
  • occurs during childhood
  • gradual, rather than sudden onset
  • likely to persist into adolescence and adulthood
  • has profound negative impact on developing social and academic competence
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Positive symptoms

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  • things that are there/ added
  • delusions (beliefs)
  • hallucinations (most common auditory- occurs in 80%)
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Negative symptoms

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  • loss of function
  • slowed thinking, speech, movement; emotional apathy; lack of drive; indifference to social contact; self- neglect
  • can be very persistent and difficult to treat
  • difficult to recognize
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DSM-5 diagnostic criteria schizophrenia

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A) severe disturbance in sensory functioning and/ or behaviour (2+) (at least one delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech)
B) social/ occupational dysfunction
C) duration 6+months with at least one month of symptoms that meet criteria D) Schizoaffective and mood disorder exclusion
E) substance/ medical condition exclusion
F) relationship to autism spectrum disorder or communication disorder- schizophrenia only diagnosed if delusions and hallucinations present for one month

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Other times psychotic symptoms can occur

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  • depression
  • bipolar disorder
  • substance abuse
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Precursors childhood onset schizophrenia

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  • gradual onset
  • almost 95% have history of behavioural, social, and psychiatric disturbances before onset of psychosis
  • developmental precursors
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Comorbidities childhood onset schizophrenia

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  • 70% meet criteria for another diagnosis
  • most commonly mild disorder or ODD/ CD
  • number links between COS and ASD
  • one study found that COS preceded ASD in 30-50% cases (both deficits in TOM, accelerated brian development near onset of disorder, similar abnormalities in rural connectivity)
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Prevalence COS

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  • extremely rare (1/10,000)
  • dramatic increase adolescence, model onset around 22 years of age
  • COS earlier onset in boys by 2-4 years (gender differences disappear in adolescence)
  • most psychotic diagnosis onset I. Late adolescents/ early adulthood (peak 15-25 males, 20-29 females)
  • prodromal period thought to precede psychotic diagnosis by 1-6 years
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Potential problems in assessment COS?

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  • screening measures developed for adolescents and young adults
  • children responses to these measures need to be Interpeted with caution
  • children’s questionarire endorsement of hallucinations
  • delusions and persecutory ideas also found common in childhood
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Neurodevelopmental model causes of COS

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  • genetic vulnerability and early neurodevelopmental insults result in impaired connections between many brian regions
  • defective neural circuitry increases a child’s vulnerability to stress
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Biological factors for causes of COS

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  • strong genetic contribution (several potential susceptibility genes)
  • best represented by continuum of risk with many GxE interactions
  • CNS dysfunction and improvements with medication suggest it is a disorder of the brain (enlarged ventricles, grey matter shrinkage, and other structural differences)
  • widespread developmental disruption of neural connectivity
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Environmental factors causes of COS

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  • familial disorder and no genetic factors may place a role trough interaction with a genetic susceptibility
  • do not alone cause schizophrenia
  • high communication deviance
  • stress, distress and personal trashed experienced by families and children with schizophrenia
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Treatment of COS

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  • chronic disorder with poor long- term prognosis
  • antipsychotic medications (block dopamine transmission but serious side effects) combined with psychotherapy and social and educational support programs
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Mood disorders

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  • run spectrum grime severe depression to extreme mania and involve extreme, persistent, or poorly regulated mood states
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DSM-5 divides mood disorder into Eros general categories:

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  • depressive disorders and

- bipolar disorders

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Depressive disorders

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  • excessive unhappiness (dysphoria) and loss of interest in activities (anhedonia), irritability
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Bipolar disorder

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  • mood swings from deep sadness to high elation (euphoria) and expansive mood (mania)
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Major Depressive Disorder DSM-5 criteria

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A. 5 or more present during same 2 week period: depressed mood, diminished interest/ pleasure, weight & appetitie, insomnia/ hypersomnia, psychomotor agitation/ retardation, fatigue/ loss of energy, feelings or worthlessness/ excessive guilt, diminished ability to think/ concentrate or indecisiveness, recurrent thoughts of death/ suicidal ideation
B. Distress/ impairment
C. Not due to substance or another medical condition
D. Not better explained by another psychiatric disorder
E. Has never been a manic or hypermanic episode

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Depression and development

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  • experience/ expression of depression changes with age
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Children under 7 (as young as 3-5) depression

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  • less easily identified
  • anaclitic depression (spitz)- infants raised in clean but emotionally cold institutional environment displayed reactions resembling depression, sometimes resulting in death (similar symptoms can occur in infants raised in severely disturbed families)
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Preschoolers depression

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  • somber/ tearful
  • lack enthusiasm
  • excessive clinging/ whiny behaviour around others
  • separation/ abandonment fears
  • irritability, physical complaints
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School-aged children depression

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  • increased irritability, disruptive behaviours, tantrums, combativeness
  • physical complaints (et loss, headaches, sleep)
  • suicide threats begin
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Preteens depression

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  • self- blame and low self- esteem
  • persistent sadness
  • social inhibition
  • sleep/ eating disturbances
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Compared to younger children adolescents (depression):

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  • more likely to report hopelessness
  • predictors of depression may differ: negative life events (younger) vs pessimistic attributions style (older)
  • more reporting low self esteem
  • more neurovegetative symptoms
  • more suicidal ideation, attempts
  • diurnal variation
  • social withdrawal
  • girls (negative body image, weight- appetite disturbance, worthlessness/ guilt)
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Depression as a symptom

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  • feeling sad or miserable

- occurs without existence if serious problem and is common at all ages

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Depression as a syndrome

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  • a group of symptoms that occur together more often than by chance
  • sadness, reduced interest, cognitive and motivational changes, somatic, psychomotor changes
  • mixed symptoms of anxiety and depression that tend to cluster on A single dimension of negative affect
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Depression as a disorder

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  • MDD
  • persistent depressive disorder (P-DD) or dysthymia
  • disruptive mood disregulation disorder (DMDD)
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Major Depressive disorder (MDD)

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  • minimum duration of two weeks; associated with depressed mood, loss of interest, other symptoms, and significant impairment in functioning
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Persistent Depressive disorder (P-DD) or dysthymia

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  • depressed mood, generally less severe but longer lasting symptoms ( a year or more), and significant impairment in functioning
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Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD)

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  • frequent and severe temper outbursts that are extreme over- reactions to situation
  • chronic, persistently irritable or angry mood present.l between severe temper outbursts
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Prevalence MDD

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  • rate preschool and school age increased two- three fold by adolescence
  • modest increase from preschool to elementary school
  • sharp increase in adolescence
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Comorbidity depression

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  • ~90% have one or more other disorders
  • most common anxiety disorders (especially GAD), specific phobia, separation anxiety disorder
  • others dysthymia, conduct problems, ADHD, eating disorders and substance use disorders
  • personality disorders
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Onset course and outcome depression

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  • gradual or sudden (usually history of milder episodes that do not meet diagnostic criteria)
  • age onset 13-15 years
  • average episode 8 months, most recover (linger if parent has depression)
  • high chance recurrence
  • 1/3 bipolar switch (develop bipolar disorder after being diagnosed with depression)
  • overall outcome not optimistic (continue high risk for later episodes of mood and other disorders $ children often continue to experience adjustment and health problems and chronic stress)
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Gender depression

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  • before adolescence approx equal
  • after puberty females 2-3x that if males
  • symptoms generally similar, but some differences
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Persistent Depressive Disorder (P-DD)

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  • characterized. T symptoms of depressed mood that occur in most days, and persist for at least one year, with 2 or more of: eating, sleeping, energy, low self esteem, poor concentration difficulty making decisions, and feelings of hopelessness
  • less severe symptoms but more chronic than MDD
  • prevalence rates lower than MDD
  • most comirbid disorder is MDD
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P-DD onset, course, and outcomes

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  • common age onset 11-12 years
  • childhood indent leads to prolonged duration
  • may be precursor to MDD for some children
  • most recover but high risk for developing other disorders especially MDD, anxiety disorders, and conduct disorders
  • increased risk for bipolar disorder and substance use disorder
  • receive less social support than those with MDD
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Associated characteristics of Depressive disorders

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  • intellectual and academic functioning
  • social and peer problems: can lead to socially helpless behaviour or aggressive behaviour which both lead to neglect
  • family problems (less supportive/ more conflicted, feel socially isolated and prefer to be alone)
  • negative self esteem
  • congnitice biases and disturbances
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Suicide

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  • second leading cause death in adolescents and young adults in Us
  • most youths with depression report suicidal ideation
  • females with depression have more suicidal ideation and attempt more than males, but girls usually less successful than boys
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Depressogenic/ distorted cognitions

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  • negative perceptions, attributions, thoughts, and beliefs associated with Depressive symptoms
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Hopelessness theory

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  • make internal, stable, global attributions to explain causes of negative events
  • depression prone individuals have a negative attributions style- blame self for negative events in life and leads to helplessness and avoidance of these events in the future which leads to helplessness and depression
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Beck’s cognitive model

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  • depressed individuals make negative interpretations about life events because they use biased and negative beliefs as interpretative filters for understanding these events
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Becks cognitive problems in 3 areas

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  • information processing biases (negative automatic thoughts, biased attention)
  • negative cognitive schema
  • negative cognitive triad: negative outlook regarding oneself, the world, and the future
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Causes depression

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  • multiple pathways likely
  • genetic risk influences neurobiological process and is reflected in early temperament characterized by: over sensitivity ti negative stimuli, high negative emotionality, and disposition to feeling negative affect
  • early dispositions shaped by negative experiences in family
  • abnormalities brain regions
  • stressful life events
  • emotion regulation
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Why is it important to treat depression in children and adolescents?

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  • impaired functioning/ quality of life
  • adverse impact on cognitive, social development
  • increased suicidality/ ideation
  • risk factor for other psychological problems
  • poor psychological outcome
  • predicts adult psychopathology
  • more virulent/ longer duration than adults
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Increased diagnosis of pediatric BP possibilities

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  1. Was precious under- diagnosed now accurately diagnosed
    Or
  2. Now being over diagnosed
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Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder

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Depressive disorder characterized by chronic severe persistent irritability with 2 main features

  1. Temper outbursts
  2. Irritable of angry mood (prior to age 10)
    - cannot come exist with ODD or bipolar disorder
    - can cooccur with MDD, ADHD, CD, or substance abuse
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Bipolar disorder

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  • a period of unusually and persistently elevated, expansive or irritable mood, alternating with or accompanied. G one or more major Depressive episodes
  • symptoms: restlessness, agitation, sleeplessness, pressured speech, flight if idead, racing thoughts, sexual disinhibition, surges of energy, expansive grandiose beliefs
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Youth with BP

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  • may display atypical symptoms: changes in mood, psychomotor agitation, mental excitation, volatile and erratic, irritability, belligerence, and mixed manic- Depressive features
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Four subtypes of bipolar disorder

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  • bipolar I disorder
  • bipolar 2 disorder
  • cyclothymic disorder
  • other specified type
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Manic episode

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period of 1 week or more with ongoing, pervasive, unusually elevated/ irritable mood, persistently increased goal directed activity or energy

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DSM- 5 criteria manic episode

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A. Distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, lasting st least 1 week
B. 3 or more: inflated self esteem grandiosity, decreased. Red for sleep, more talkative, flight of ideas, distractibikity, increase goal directed or psychomotor agitation, excessive involvement in pleasurable activities high potential for painful consequences

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Issues diagnosing BP

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  • difficulty young people- just tantrum?
  • very similar to ADHD (differentiated by grandiosity, elated mood, flight of ideas, decreased need for sleep, hypersxuality, increased goal directed activity)
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Why is it important to recognize pediatric bipolar disorder?

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  • earlier age I sent associated with:
  • more difficult/ complicated course of illness
  • prolonged rules and recurrent episodes
  • overall more severe course with earlier onset
  • younger you are when bipolar beings, longer until you receive treatment
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Prevalence

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  • youth bipolar II and cyclothymic disorder are more likely than bipolar I
  • rapid cycling more common
  • extremely rare in young children, but increases after puberty
  • affects males and females equally but boys may show more manic mood and girls more depressed mood
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Comorbidity BP

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  • anxiety, GAD, ADHD, oppositional and conduct
  • substance use
  • suicidal thoughts and ideations
  • co-occurring medical problems (cardiovascular & metabolic, epilepsy, and migraine headaches)
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Onset course and outcome bipolar disorder

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60% prior to age 19
Peak 15-18 years
Risk factors mania: major Depressive episode & family gistory
- 4-6m untreated
- early onset and course is chronic and resistant to treatment, with poor lung- term prognosis

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Causes BP

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  • adults genetic and environmental
  • multiple genes
  • modify fluctuations related to abnornalitu s in areas of brain related to emotion regulation
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BP treatment

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  • no cure
  • close monitoring of symptoms
  • education
  • medication, usually lithium
  • psychotherapeutic interventions
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Anxiety

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  • a mood state characterized by strong negative emotion and bodily symptoms of tension in anticipation of future danger or misfortune
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Three interrelated anxiety response systems

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Physical system: danger- SNS- fight it flight

Cognitive system: fight or flight–> search for threat

Behavioural system: fight or flight–> urges: aggression and desire to escape threatening situation

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Anxiety

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Future- oriented mood state, which may occur in absence or realistic danger; characterized by feelings of apprehension and lack of control over upcoming events

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Fear

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Present- oriented emotional reaction to current danger, characterized by strong escape tendencies and surge in sympathetic nervous system

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Panic

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Group of physical symptoms of fight/ flight response that unexpectedly occur in the absence of obvious danger or threat

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Children with anxiety do not necessarily worry more

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They worry more intensely than other children

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Seven categories of anxiety disorders

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  • separation anxiety disorder (SAD)
  • specific phobia
  • social anxiety disorder
  • selective mutism
  • panic disorder (PD)
  • agoraphobia
  • generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
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Separation anxiety disorder

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age inappropriate, excessive, and disabling anxiety about being apart from parents or away from home

  • worry of loss, separation event; refusal to go away from home; excessive fear of being alone; excessive fear to sleep away from attachment figure; repeated nightmares about separation; repeated complaints of physical symptoms
  • one of most common anxieties in children
  • earliest reported age of onset 7-8 years
  • progresses from mild to severe
  • associated with major stress
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School reluctance/ refusal in SAD

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  • refusal to attend classes or difficulty remaining in school for an entire day
  • equally common in boys and girls
  • ages 5-11
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Specific phobia

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Age inappropriate persistent, irrational, or exaggerated fear that leads to avoidance of the feared object or event and causes impairment in normal routine

  • 6 months
  • extreme and disabling fear of objects or sutuations that in reality pose little or. I danger it threat
  • avoids
  • tends to have more than one
  • not that diff from specific phobia in adults but more anticipatory anxiety, don’t recognize that worry is extreme and unreasonable
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Social anxiety disorder (social phobia)

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a marked, persistent fear of social or performance requirements that expose the child to scrutiny & possible embarrassment

  • twice as common I. Girls
  • average age onset early to mid adolescents
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Selective mutism

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  • failure to talk in specific situations, even though they may speak loudly and frequently at home or other settings
  • average age onset 3-4 years
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Panic attack

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  • sudden, overwhelming period of intense fear or discomfort accompanied by four out more physical and cognitive symptoms characteristic of fight or flight response
  • rare in young children, common in adolescents
  • related to pubertal development, not age
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Panic disorder

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  • recurrent unexpected panic attacks followed by at least one month of persistent concern about having another attack, constant worry about the consequence, or a significant change in. Rehabilitation related to the attacks
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Agoraphobia

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in severe cases, high anticipatory anxiety and situation avoidance may lead to agoraphobia:

  • marked fear/ anxiety in certain places or situations
  • fears related to having a panic attack in situations where escape would be difficult or help is unavailable
  • distinct disorder conceptualizer independently from panic attacks and PD
  • does not usually develop until age 18 or older
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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

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  • equally common in boys and girls
  • average age early adolescence
  • older children have more symptoms
  • symptoms persist over time
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OCD age of onset

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Average 9-12 years

  • two beans 6-10 “early onset” (more boys, strong family history OCD; prominent motor patterns, co-occuring tic disorders)
  • late adolescent
  • chronic
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OCD related disorders

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  • body dysmorphic disorder
  • hoarding disorder
  • Trichotillomania
  • excoriation disorder
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Habituation

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The process of tolerating anxiety

  • if you enter situation with high anxiety, and leave the anxiety goes down immediately, however you associate leaving with anxiety decreasing
  • with treatment stat with the situation and the anxiety will decrease in it’s own
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Cognitive disturbances with anxiety

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  • intelligence generally normal: disturbance in how info is perceived and processes
  • threat related attentional biases
  • cognitive errors and biases
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Physical symptoms anxiety

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  • somatic complaints (more common in all except specific phobia, more common in adolescents than younger children
  • sleep related problems
  • reduced accidents and accidental deaths in young adulthood but higher rates of non- accidental death later in life
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Social and emotional deficits anxiety

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  • low social performance and high social anxiety
  • likely viewed as anxious and socially maladjusted
  • see themselves as shy and sexually withdrawn
  • report low self esteem, loneliness, difficulty initiating and. Maintaining friendships
  • difficulties with peers/ siblings difficulty understanding emotio
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Anxiety and depression.

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  • strong relationship between anxiety and depression in children
  • anxiety generally precedes and predicts symptoms of depression
  • link negative affeftivity
  • positive affextivity negatively correlated with depression, but independent of depression
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Gender, ethnicity, culture anxiety

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  • more common girls
  • ethnicity and culture may affect expression, developmental course, and interpretation of anxiety symptoms
  • pervasive across cultures
  • behaviour lens principle
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Theories and causes of anxiety

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  • psychoanalytic
  • behavioural and learning theories: learned through classical conditioning maintained through operant conditioning (two- factor theory)
  • bowlbys theory of attachment
  • no single theory sufficient
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Temperament

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  • variations in behavioural reactions to novelty
  • behavioural inhibition: low threshold for novel and unexpected stimuli, tend to be fearful/ anxious as toddlers, shy withdrawn as young children
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Family and twin studies anxiety

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  • disposition to become anxious is inherited
  • highest genetic influence for OCD and shyness/ inhibition l
  • serotonin and dopamine e
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Neurobiological factors

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  • no single structure or neurotransmitter
  • HPA axis
  • overactive BIS
  • more pronounced right- left hemisphere brain asymmetries and an over excitable amygdala
  • primary neurotransmitter system GABA- ethic
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Trauma and stressor related disorders

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  • acute stress disorder
  • adjustment disorder
  • PTSD
  • reactive attachment disorder
  • disinhibited social engagement disorder
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Child maltreatment

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  • physical abuse
  • neglect
  • sexual abuse
  • psychological abuse
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Non- accidental trauma

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  • wide ranging effects of maltreatment on the child’s physical and emotional development
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Victimization

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  • abuse or mistreatment of someone whose ability to protect himself or herself is limited
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Expectable environment

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  • protective and nurturing caregiver(s)
  • opportunities for socialization within a culture
  • contact with peers
  • opportunities to explore and master environment
  • gradual shift of control from parent to child and the community
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Boys more likely to be abused by

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Male nonfamily members

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Girls more

Likely to be sexually abused by

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Male family members

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Disorders related to social neglect

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  • reactive attachment disorder
  • disinhibited social engagement disorder

Child has experienced a pattern of extrememes and insufficient care evidenced by at least 1 of: social neglect or deprivation, repeated changes primary caregivers, rearing in unusual settings

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Treatment trauma

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  • exposure

- CBT

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Why is spanking ineffective;

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  1. Goals to adhere to the principle of learning: the conditions that must exist for punishment to be effective
  2. Children learn by more complicated methods than just what behaviours eleicit a punishment
  3. Often illogical and confusing
  4. Spankin is fear based

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