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The diagnostic criteria of this disability occur and appear during the development period. There are deficits in intellectual functioning such as reasoning, thinking, problem-solving, judgment, and learning from experience. Also, there are deficits in adaptive functioning such as communication, social participation, and independent living. (formerly known as mental retardation)

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What are the Diagnostic Criteria and Symptoms of Intellectual Disabilities?

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The difference between these two disorders is that one is characterized by difficulties in reasoning, problem-solving, comprehending complex ideas, and other cognitive skills; its diagnosis is based on an intelligence quotient. The other is defined primarily by social difficulties, communication issues, and repetitive behaviors.

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What is the difference between Intellectual Disability and Autism?

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The diagnostic criteria of this disorder include persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts. An individual has difficulty developing and maintaining relationships, recognizing or initiating conversation or social cues, or recognizing nonverbal communicative behaviors. A student has fixed, restrictive, repetitive behaviors, such as repetitive movements or speech, fixated interests or strict adherence to routines, and hyper or hypo sensitivity to triggers in their environment.

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What are the Diagnostic Criteria and Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder?

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The diagnostic criteria of this disorder include students who have trouble understanding and producing language. Have deficits specific to language, language skills which are measurably lower than expected for a student’s age group. Have problems with short-term memory, auditory processing, and processing multiple sensory info at once. These students might have a “lisp”, slushy sound distortions, or have omission, substitution, or addition errors in their speech patterns. Have difficulties with figurative language and humor. Have trouble holding a conversation and switching between formal and informal language.

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What are the Symptoms and Diagnostic Criteria for Communication Disorders?

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This disorder occurs when a child’s perception of language is accurate, but they struggle with producing speech. They know exactly what they want to say, but it’s difficult for them to say it

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What is Stuttering?

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The diagnostic criteria of this disorder include students who struggle with language; impaired listening, thinking, speaking, reading, writing, spelling, or math. This disorder includes brain injury, brain dysfunction, dyslexia, developmental aphasia. It is also a disorder related to one of the psychological processes involved in understanding or in using specific language.

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What are the Symptoms and Diagnostic Criteria for Specific Learning Disorders?

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This neurodevelopmental disorder is diagnosed and characterized by a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity/impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development. There are three types: Impulsive/hyperactive, Inattentive, or Combined. Symptoms include the inability to pay attention, difficulty sitting still, difficulty controlling impulses.

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What are the Diagnostic Criteria and Symptoms for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder?

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This is not an episodic disorder, this disorder more closely represents a personality or antisocial disorder
The symptoms of this disorder are that the individual is not afraid of consequences, punishments, or threats.
They display physical aggression, engage in theft, property damage, and rule violation. Have deficits in executive functions; planning, task switching, or working memory and display aggression to people and or animals.

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What are the symptoms of Conduct Disorder?

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Repetitive and persistent behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated, as manifested by the presence of at least 3 of the 15 criteria in the past 12 months, or 1 of the criteria in the past 6 months.

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What are the diagnostic criteria of Conduct Disorder?

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The diagnostic criteria of this disorder entail a problematic pattern of alcohol or other drug use that interferes with their daily functioning or causes significant psychological distress. Signs and symptoms of this disorder are organized into four clusters: (1) impaired control, (2) social impairment, (3) risky use, and (4) pharmacological criteria.

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What are the Substance Abuse Disorders Diagnostic Criteria?

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This term refers to alcohol, other drugs, and prescription medications that can be misused and lead to distress or disability. Adolescents most frequently use alcohol, nicotine, and marijuana.

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What does the term Substance mean?

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Children with this disorder display developmentally inappropriate and excessive fear concerning separation from those to whom the individual is attached.

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What is Separation Anxiety Disorder?

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  1. Separation Anxiety disorder
  2. Selective Mutism
  3. Specific Phobia
  4. Social Anxiety Disorder
  5. Panic Disorder
  6. Agoraphobia
  7. Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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What are the seven anxiety disorders identified by the DSM-5?

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  1. A disorder in which children consistently fail to speak in social situations where speaking is expected.
  2. It cannot be explained by a communication disorder
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What is Selective Mutism?

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An object or situation provokes this disorder immediately. The object or situation is avoided because it can cause the individual significant distress or impairment

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What is a Specific Phobia?

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This disorder is characterized by a marked and persistent fear of social or performance situations in which scrutiny or embarrassment might occur. Situations are avoided and fear of these situations persists for six or more months.

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What are the characteristics of Social Anxiety Disorder?

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This disorder sees recurrent abrupt surges of fear or intense discomfort that reaches a peak within ten minutes, during which four or more of the following symptoms occur:

  1. Physical symptoms such as sweating, trembling, shaking, chest pain.
  2. An attack followed by the worry of another attack or changes in behavior because of the attack
  3. A significant change in daily routine.
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What are the diagnostic criteria for Panic Disorder?

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This disorder is characterized by recurrent fear about places or situations from which escape or help is impossible without considerable embarrassment. There must be marked fear about two of the following:

  1. Using public transportation
  2. Being in enclosed spaces
  3. Standing in line or being in a crowd
  4. Being outside of the home alone.
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What is Agoraphobia?

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The symptoms of this disorder include excessive WORRY occurring more days than not for at least 6 months, about many events and activities, such as work or school performance. There must be at least 3 of the following symptoms:

  1. Restlessness/feeling on edge
  2. Difficulty concentrating
  3. Easily fatigued
  4. Irritability
  5. Muscle tensions
  6. Sleep disturbance
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What are the symptoms and Diagnostic Criteria of Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

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This disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by the presence of recurrent, unwanted repeated thoughts, urges, or behaviors that are extremely time-consuming, cause marked distress, or significantly impair daily functioning. Examples include excessive cleaning, fear of germs or contamination, having things in perfect order, or arranging things in a particular way. The person also can’t control these thoughts or behaviors and does not feel pleasure from performing these behaviors.

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What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

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Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced at some time during a disturbance which are intrusive and unwanted and cause marked anxiety or stress.

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What are Obsessions?

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Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rules must be applied rigidly.

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What are Compulsions?

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Students with this disorder have difficulty concentrating, miss information, and have problems with memory. They avoid certain classes, or people, limit peer activities and frequently re-check their work, or spend significant time on an assignment to get it “Just Right”. They excessively doubt themselves and worry about others cheating from them.

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What are examples of OCD in schools?

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This disorder involves sudden, rapid, non-rhythmic movements and behaviors that are involuntary. They are unwanted urges that can be physical, motoric, or vocal.

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What is Tic Disorder?

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With this disorder, you have multiple motor and vocal involuntary movements and behaviors that last more than one year.

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What is Tourette’s Disorder?

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This disorder involves individually pulling out or chewing their hair, resulting in hair loss, and causes distress or impairment

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What is Trichotillomania?

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An individual with this disorder recurrently picks their skin until lesions develop. They are unable to stop even after repeated attempts.

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What is Excoriation Disorder?

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This disorder is shown by infants and children who display inhibited, emotionally withdrawn behavior towards caregivers, a failure to respond to comfort, and episodes of irritability/negative effect.

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What is Reactive Attachment Disorder?

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A DSM-5 disorder shown by infants or young children who repeatedly approach and interact with unfamiliar adults in a manner that is developmentally unexpected. Children do not check in with caregivers in new settings, and they are “indiscriminately friendly” with strangers.

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What is Disinhibited Social Engagement disorder?

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Physical abuse, Sexual Abuse, Psychological Abuse, and Neglect

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What are the four types of Child Maltreatment?

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Non-accidental injury to a child inflicted by a parent, caregiver, or other individuals who have responsibility for the child.

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What is Physical Abuse?

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Any act involving a child that is intended to provide sexual gratification to a parent, caregiver, or other individuals who have responsibility for a child; includes sexual contact and non-contact exploitation.

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What is Sexual Abuse?

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Nonaccidental verbal or symbolic acts by a child’s parent or caregiver that result, or have reasonable potential to result, in significant psychological harm to the child.

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What is Psychological Abuse?

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Spurning, Terrorizing, Isolating, Exploiting, Delaying Emotional Responsiveness.

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What are the five types of behavior displayed during child maltreatment?

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An act or omission by a child’s parent or other caregivers that deprives the child of basic age-appropriate needs and thereby results, or has reasonable potential to result, in physical or psychological harm

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What is Neglect?

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Physical, Medical, Educational

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What are the three types of Neglect?

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A DSM-5 disorder that occurs following exposure to death, serious injury, or sexual violence.”
It is characterized by:
1) Intrusive symptoms
2) Avoidance of stimuli associated with the event
3) Negative alterations in thoughts or mood
4) Alterations in arousal and reactivity that cause distress or impairment and last at least one month

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What are the Diagnostic Criteria and symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

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A discrete period of dysphoria (a state of unease or generalized dissatisfaction with life) that lasts for at least two weeks. The individual has to have experienced at least 5 out of the 9 symptoms.

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What are the Diagnostic Criteria of Major Depressive Disorder?

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  1. An irritable mood
  2. Diminished interest or pleasure in most activities
  3. Significant change in appetite or weight
  4. Significant change in sleep
  5. loss of energy or fatigue
  6. Feelings of worthlessness or guilt
  7. Recurring thoughts of death and suicide or of harming one self
  8. Thoughts and Concentration Problems
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What are the symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder?

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This is defined as a diminished interest or pleasure in most activities.

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What is Anhedonia?

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These are the subtypes of what disorder?

  1. Atypical
  2. Catatonic
  3. Melancholic
  4. Postpartum
  5. Psychotic
  6. Recurrent Depression
  7. Chronic depression
  8. Seasonal Affective Depression
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What are the subtypes of Major Depression?

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An individual with this disorder has a depressed mood for most of the day, for more days often than not for at least 2 years. In children and adolescents, an irritable mood for 1 year.

Only 2 (or more)of these symptoms need to be present while depressed:
Poor appetite or overeating
Insomnia or hypersomnia
Low energy or fatigue
Low self-esteem
Poor concentration or difficulty making decisions
Feeling hopelessness

Also, has never been without the symptoms for more than two months at a time.

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What are the Diagnostic Criteria of Dysthymia?

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The difference between these two similar depressive disorders is that symptoms are usually more rapid, lasts for several months, are more severe with shorter episodes, and Anhedonia and Suicidal Ideation are key characteristics.

The other usually begins gradually, the symptoms are less severe with longer episodes and it is a long-term condition lasting two years or longer.

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What is the difference between MDD and Dysthymia?

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The deliberate self-inflicted injury or potential injury with an intent to die.

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What is Suicide?

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This occurs when individuals repeatedly and
intentionally damage the surface of their
body in a manner that is likely to induce
bleeding, bruising, or pain. These individuals
do not want to die

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What is Non-suicidal self-injury?

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These disorders are mood disorders defined by the presence of manic symptoms of elevated, expansive, or irritable moods with increased levels of energy and activity which may be followed by symptoms of depression.

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What are Bipolar Disorders?

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This disorder is a form of bipolar disorder where symptoms of mania and depression are present in an individual which last a minimum of two years and the person’s hypomanic symptoms do not meet the diagnostic criteria for either Bipolar 1 or 2 disorders or Major Depressive Disorder.

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What is Cyclothymic Disorder?

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  1. Criteria needs to be met for at least one manic episode;
    a. A distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated expansive or irritable mood that lasts at least one week and is present for most of the day.
    b. During this period, three of the seven symptoms must be present.
    c. The mood disturbance is severe enough to cause marked impairment in social or occupational functioning or incur hospitalization.
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What are the diagnostic criteria for Bipolar 1 disorder?

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These are the symptoms for what disorder?

  1. Inflated self-esteem
  2. Decreased need for sleep
  3. More talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking.
  4. Flight of Ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing
  5. Distractibility
  6. Increase in goal-directed activity
  7. Excessive involvement in activities that have a high potential for painful consequences.
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What are the symptoms of Bipolar 1 disorder?

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This condition is characterized by unusually high self-confidence, exaggerated self-esteem, and overrated self-importance.

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What does the term Grandiosity mean?

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GRAPES+D
Grandiosity
Racing thoughts or flight of ideas
Activity level increase or psychomotor agitation
Pressured speech or excessive talkativeness
Excessive involvement in potentially harmful activities
Sleep disturbance
Distractibility

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What acronym describes the symptoms of Mania?

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To be diagnosed with this disorder a person must have or have had at least one major depressive episode and at least one hypomanic episode. A hypomanic episode means to have less severe or has prolonged manic symptoms. This episode must last at least 4 days but less than 1 week and it does not cause significant impairment in social, occupational, or academic functioning or hospitalization.

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What are the diagnostic criteria for Bipolar 2 disorder?

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A psychotic disorder in which the person’s thoughts, feelings, and actions reflect
a lack of contact with reality.

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What is Schizophrenia?

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This disorder is defined by the presence of two or more of the following signs and symptoms:

  1. Hallucinations,
  2. Delusions,
  3. Disorganized speech,
  4. Grossly abnormal behavior, and
  5. Diminished emotional expression or lack of motor activity
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What symptoms define Schizophrenia?

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This defines a specific type of condition:
Perception-like experiences that occur without an external stimulus.
Auditory: Involve laughter, humming, whistling, or whispering.
Visual: Involve seeing shadows, lights, or brief and unclear images that seem to be in the shape of animals, mythical figures, monsters, or cartoon
characters.
Olfactory: (smell), gustatory (taste), and tactile or somatosensory (touch): rare in children and adolescents.

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What are hallucinations?

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This defines a specific type of condition:
Fixed beliefs that are not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. Usually reflect a misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences and maybe bizarre in nature.

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What are delusions?

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These are different types of what condition?
Control: the belief that others are controlling one’s actions and thoughts
Persecution: belief that someone is trying to get them
Reference: belief that someone is trying to send them messages or signals
Grandiosity; the belief of being special or called to perform a certain task
Somatic: belief that the body is defective or distorted in some way.

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What are the different types of delusions?

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This is the diagnostic criteria for what disorder?

  1. Youths must show at least two of the five possible features of the illness and at
    least one of these symptoms must include delusions, hallucinations, or
    disorganized speech.
  2. Individuals should show signs of the illness for at least 6 months.
  3. Individuals should not be diagnosed if they experience a mood disorder at the
    same time they show psychotic symptoms, and when psychosis is caused by a
    medical illness, medication, or drug.
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What are the diagnostic criteria for Schizophrenia?

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These disorders are characterized by disturbances in food consumption that results in very low body weight, binge eating, and/or dangerous strategies to avoid weight gain. It affects adolescent’s mental health which drives them into depression,
hopelessness, and self-harm.

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How do you define Eating Disorders?

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This condition refers to the persistent eating of nonnutritive, nonfood substances over the
period of at least 1 month. Some examples of nonfoods include burnt matches, glass, coins, bolts, hair,
grass, clay, etc.

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What is Pica?

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This disorder involves the intentionally repeated regurgitation of stomach contents into the mouth. The regurgitated food may be rechewed, re-swallowed, or spit out.

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What is Rumination Disorder?

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These are the reasons individuals might engage in this disorder;

  1. To gain attention from caregivers or peers (i.e., social positive reinforcement).
  2. To avoid an undesirable task (i.e., social negative reinforcement).
  3. As a form of self-stimulation (i.e., automatic reinforcement).
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Why do individuals Ruminate?

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A feeding disorder that shows a
lack of interest in eating, AVOIDING certain foods based on their sensory characteristics
(e.g., texture, color, smell).

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What is Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder?

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These are the subtypes of this disorder:

  1. Infantile anorexia: Children who show little interest in feeding
  2. Sensory food aversion: Children who avoid feeding because of taste or texture
  3. Posttraumatic feeding: Children who refuse food because of a previous version of a specific food.
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What are the subtypes of (ARFID) Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder?

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A medical condition characterized by nutritional deficiency and weight below the fifth percentile for age and gender on standardized growth charts.

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What does it mean to have a “Failure to thrive”?

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People with weight significantly below what is expected for their age, gender, and overall physical health.

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What is Anorexia Nervosa?

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People with this mentality usually do not think that their eating is problematic. Instead, most adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa take pride in their ability to restrict their diet or avoid weight gain.

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What is Ego-syntonic?

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The essential feature of this condition is recurrent binge eating which occurs when a person
consumes an unusually large amount of food in a discrete period of time or the person feels out of control while eating.

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What is Bulimia Nervosa?

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Individuals with this mentality who have Bulimia Nervosa usually regard their eating behavior as
problematic.

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What is Ego-dystonic?

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Characterized by recurrent episodes of eating without inappropriate compensatory behaviors to avoid weight gain. During these episodes, the individual feels out of control and finds it difficult to stop eating.

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What is a Binge Eating Disorder?

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This condition is the result of the repeated voiding of urine into the bed or clothes in children age 5 or older.
Must occur at least twice a week for at least 3 consecutive months. The voiding must not be caused by medications, such as diuretics or selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Can be nocturnal, diurnal, or both.

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What Is Enuresis?

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This condition has the individual repeating passages of feces into INAPPROpriate places. Occurs at least once per month for 3 months in children age 4 years or older. Not attributable to medication and can be with or without constipation and overflow incontinence.

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What is Encopresis?

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Which type of Enuresis is seen in children who have NEVER been able to stay dry during the
night or day.

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What is Primary Enuresis?

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Which type of Enuresis is seen in children who had previously been toilet trained for at least 6 months and
then began to show enuresis.

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What is Secondary Enuresis?

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Children who engage in this behavior are
conspicuous; they infrequently urinate, engage in holding maneuvers, and must
be prompted by adults to use the toilet.

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What does the term Voiding Postponement mean?

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These disorders are a large class of DSM-5 conditions that are characterized by disruptions in a person’s sleep patterns or dissatisfaction regarding the quality, timing, or amount of sleep.

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What are Sleep-Wake Disorders?

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These are indicators and an acronym for what disorder?

Bedtime difficulties
Excessively sleepy during the day
Awaken during the night and can’t go back to sleep
Regular sleep schedule
Snore or have trouble breathing when they sleep.

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What does the acronym BEAR stand for in the identification of sleep disorders?

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This method for assessing sleep requires a child to have their sleep monitored. Brain Activity, eye movements, muscle activation, and heart rhythms are assessed. This method can help physicians monitor sleep duration and quality, detect abnormalities, and identify breathing-related problems.

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What is a Polysomnogram? (PSG)

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This disorder is defined by sleep problems resulting in dissatisfaction with the quantity or quality
of sleep. Dissatisfaction can be reported by either the child or her parents.

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What is Insomnia Disorder?

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this is the diagnostic criteria for what disorder?
1. A predominant complaint of dissatisfaction with sleep quantity or quality,
associated with one (or more) of the following symptoms:
1. Difficulty initiating sleep.
2. Difficulty maintaining sleep, characterized by frequent awakening or
problems returning to sleep after awakenings.
3. Early-morning awakening with inability to return to sleep.
2. The sleep disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in
social, occupational, educational, academic, behavioral, or other important areas
of functioning.
3. The sleep difficulty occurs at least 3 nights per week.
4. The sleep difficulty is present for at least 3 months and occurs despite adequate
sleep opportunities.
5. The disorder is not better explained by and does not occur exclusively during
the course of another sleep-wake disorder.
6. The disorder is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance (e.g.,
a drug of abuse, a medication).
7. Coexisting mental disorders and medical conditions do not adequately explain
the predominant complaint of insomnia.

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What are the Diagnostic Criteria for Insomnia Disorder?

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This condition happens when infants and toddlers wake 4-6 times a night and are conditioned only to fall asleep only with the help of their parents. They may also wake parents several times during the night expecting their assistance.

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What is Night Waking?

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These two medications help medicate which disorder?

Antihistamines and Benzodiazepines

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What are the two most common medications to help people with sleep-wake disorders?

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This disorder describes the recurrent inability to fall asleep and wake at conventionally appropriate times. it is also associated with a deregulation of hormones in the body that influence fatigue and arousal such as melatonin and cortisol

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What is Circadian Rythm Sleep-Wake Disorder?

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This disorder represents conditions that occur when children have recurrent episodes of “incompletely awakening” from non-REM sleep. There are two types: sleepwalking and sleep, terrors. Children also do not have a memory of the episode the following morning

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What is Sleep Arousal Disorders?

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The difference between this sleep disorder and this symptom of Sleep Arousal Disorder is that the symptom of Sleep Arousal Disorder occurs during non-REM sleep, a child cannot recall the events that occurred, they are difficult to wake, and usually, fall asleep quickly after the event.

The other sleep disorder occurs during REM sleep and they reflect actual dreams that involve threats to survival or well-being. Children can easily wake up and can easily recall the content associated with the event.

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What is the difference between night terrors and nightmare disorders?

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This is a condition in which the child’s airway is constricted or blocked during sleep. A temporary cessation of breathing, where there is
slow or shallow breathing. This condition causes children to wake frequently during the night to increase their intake of oxygen, reducing the quality of their sleep.

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What is Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea?

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This disorder is triggered by a faulty immune system response. Students may experience symptoms after a strong stimulant is introduced to the immune system such as a strep infection. The immune system is thought to mistakenly react and cause brain inflammation in the basal ganglia region. This reaction may cause neurological, psychological, and cognitive symptoms as a result of neurological inflammation.

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What are Pediatric Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Strep? (PANDAS)

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This syndrome is triggered by a faulty immune system response. Students may experience symptoms after a strong stimulant is introduced to the immune system such as the flu or even the common cold. The immune system is thought to mistakenly react and cause brain inflammation in the basal ganglia region. This reaction may cause neurological, psychological, and cognitive symptoms as a result of neurological inflammation.

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What is Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome? (PANS)

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All of the common symptoms found in this disorder are:

  1. Anxiety, including separation anxiety
  2. Obsessions and Compulsions, OCD is an acute, rapid onset much like a lightning strike, unlike regular OCD which is much more gradual and episodic.
  3. Tics or involuntary movements
  4. Changes in handwriting and academic performance
  5. Reduced attention span and inability to focus
  6. Changes in personality and behavior
  7. Changes in eating and sleeping habits
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What are the common symptoms of PANS and PANDAS?

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The following are the symptoms of this disorder; mood and personality changes, depression, hyperactivity, health and hygiene issues, changes in relationships with friends and family, problems with police, unhealthy peer/dating relationships, disengagement from school, and poor attendance or dropping out.

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What are the symptoms of Substance Abuse Disorder?

GCEP 504 Child Adolescent Disorders (2 decks)

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