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A pattern consisting of rigid and extreme personality traits that repeatedly impair an individual’s sense of self, emotional experience, goals, capacity for empathy, and/or capacity for intimacy.

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Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder marked by a pattern of distrust and suspiciousness of others.

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by persistent avoidance of social relationships and little expression of emotion.

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Schizoid Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by extreme discomfort in relationships, odd forms of thinking and perceiving, and behavioral eccentricities.

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder marked by a general pattern of disregard for and violation of other people’s rights.

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by repeated instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and mood and by impulsive behavior.

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionally and attention seeking. Once called hysterical personality disorder.

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Historic Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder marked by a broad pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by consistent discomfort and restraint in social situations, overwhelming feelings of inadequacy, and extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation.

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by a pattern of clinging and obedience, fear of separation, and an ongoing need to be taken care of.

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Dependent Persoanltiy Disorder

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A personality disorder marked by such an intense focus on orderliness, perfectionism, and control that the individual loses flexibility, openness, and efficiency.

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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder currently undergoing study for possible inclusion in a future revision of DSM-5. Individual would receive this diagnosis if they display significant impairment in their functioning as a result of one or more very problematic traits.

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Personality Disorder Trait Specified (PDTS)

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A childhood disorder marked by excessive anxiety, even panic, whenever the child is separated from home or parent.

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Separation Anxiety Disorder

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A childhood disorder marked by severe recurrent temper outbursts along with a persistent irritable or angry mood.

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Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder

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A childhood disorder in which children are repeatedly argumentative and defiant, angry and irritable, and, in some cases, vindictive.

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Oppositional Defiant Disorder

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A childhood disorder in which the child repeatedly violates the basic rights of others and displays aggression, characterized by symptoms such as physical cruel to people or animals, the deliberate destruction of other people’s property, and the commission of various crimes.

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Conduct Disorder

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A disorder marked by inability to focus attention, overactive and impulsive behavior, or both.

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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

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A stimulant drug, known better by the trade name Ritalin, commonly used to treat ADHD.

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Methylphenidate

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A childhood disorder marked by repeated bed-wetting or wetting of one’s clothes.

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Enuresis

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A childhood disorder characterized by repeated defecating in inappropriate place, such as one’s clothes.

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Encopresis

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A developmental disorder marked by extreme unresponsiveness to others, severe communication deficits, and highly repetitive and rigid behaviors, interests, and activities.

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Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Awareness that other people base their behaviors on their own beliefs, intentions, and other mental states, not on information they have no way of knowing.

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Theory of Mind

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An area of the brain that coordinates movement in the body and perhaps helps control a person’s ability to shift attention rapidly.

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Cerebellum

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A method for enhancing the communication skills of individuals with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual developmental disorder, re cerebral palsy by teaching them to point to pictures, symbols, letters, or words on a communication board or computer.

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Augmentative Communication System

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A disorder marked by intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior that are well below average. Previously called metal retardation.

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Intellectual Developmental Disorder

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A score derived from intelligence tests that theoretically represents a person’s overall intellectual capacity.

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Intelligence Quotient

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A level of intellectual developmental disorder at which people can benefit from education and can support themselves as adults.

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Mild IDD

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A group of problems in a child, including lower intellectual functioning, low birth weight, and irregularities in the hands and face, that result from excessive alcohol intake by the mother during pregnancy.

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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A state-supported institution for people with intellectual developmental disorder.

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State School

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The principle that institutions and community residences should expose people with intellectual developmental disorder to living conditions and opportunities similar to those found in the rest of society.

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Normalization

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An approach to education children with intellectual developmental disorder in which they are grouped together and given a separate, specially designed education.

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Special Education

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The placement of children with intellectual developmental disorder in regular school classes. Also known as inclusion

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