Lesson 2 Flashcards
Is a condition that significantly deviates from what is considered normal, it can be behavioral, emotional, or cognitive disturbance
Abnormal Disorder
Areas that affect the brain development and brain function
- Psychological
- Cognitive
- Social
- Emotional
Several criteria to identify children with bahavioral and social emotional problems
- based on statistical deviancy
- based on disability or degree of impairment
- abnormality’s incorporates degree of psychological distress
People can show psychological distress through:
- depress mood
- irratibility
- anxiety
- worry
- panic
- confusion
- frustration
- anger
- any other feeling of dysphoria
One of the central features of most anxiety and mood disorders
Psychological Distress
A disorder exist when 2 criteria are met:
- The person must show a dysfunction that is a failure in some internal mechanism to work in the correct manner
- The dysfunction must cause harm or it must limit or threaten the person in some way
Some abnormal disorders that can affect childhood includes
- communication disorder
- autism spectrum disorder
- neurodevelopmental disorder
- attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- enuresis
- encopresis
- motor disorder
Any disorders that affect someones ability to comprehend, detect or apply language and speech to engage in discourse effectively with others
Communication Disorder
Types of communication disorder
- speech sound disorder
- childhood - onset fluency disorder (stuttering)
- social (pragmatic) communication disorder
- unspecified communication disorder
- articulation disorders
- phonemic disorders
Previously called phonological disorder, for those with problem with pronounciation and articulation of their native language
Speech sound disorder
Standard fluency and rhythm of speech is interrupted, often causing the repetition of whole words and syllables.
Childhood-onset fluency disorder (stuttering)
This diagnoses described difficulties in the social uses of verbal and non verbal communication in naturalistic context that affect the development of social relationship and discourse comprehension
Social (pragmatic) communication disorder
For those who have symptoms of communication disorder who do not meet all criteria, and whose symptoms cause distress or impairment
Unspecified communication disorder
Also called phonetic disorder
Articulation disorders
Also called phonological disorders
Phonemic disorders
Is a childhood disorder characterized by deficits in social interaction and communication, and repetitive patterns of behavior or interest
Autism spectrum disorder
Is one of the disorders that are first diagnosed in childhood and involve developmental problems in academic, intellectual and social functioning
Neurodevelopmental disorder
Is a childhood disorder characterized by attentiveness and/or hyperactive, impulsive behavior
Attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder
Is defined as voiding of urine into bed/clothing in children who are at least five years of age
Enuresis
Is define as either voluntary or involuntary voiding of the bowels (fecal incotinence) in appropriate places in children who are st least 4 years of age
Encopresis
Are malfunction of nervous system that cause involuntary or uncontrollable movements of actions of the body
Motor disorders
Types of motor disorders
- developmental coordination disorder
- stereotypic movement disorder
- tic disorders
Also known to affect planning of movements and coordination as a result of brain messages not being accurately transmitted to the body
Developmental coordination disorder
Is motor disorder with onset in childhood involving repetitive, nonfunctional motor behavior (hand waving, head banging) that markly interferes with normal activities or results in bodily injury
Stereotypic movement disorder
Is motor disorder that can involve motor tics, or vocal tics
Tic disorders
Some abnormal disorders that can affect adolescence includes:
- conduct disorder
- oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)
- post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- anxiety disorder
Is a mental disorder diagnosed in adolescence that presents itself through a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age - appropriate norms are violated
Conduct disorder
Is a disorder under DSM 5 under disruptive, impulse control and conduct disorders define as a “ pattern of angry/irratible mood, argumentative/defiant behavior or vendictiveness in adolescents
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Is a long term emotional upset, worry, scary memories, nightmare and acting out
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Are outsized fear or worries that are hard to control
Anxiety disorder
