WEEK 3 IP

Question 1

WE ARE BORN WITH THESE

Answer 1

NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

Question 2

THESE DEVELOP LATER IN LIFE AS WE GET OLDER OR TRAUMA TO THE BRAIN

Answer 2

NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDERS

Question 3

refers to variation in the human brain regarding sociability, learning, attention, mood, and other mental functions in a non-pathological sense.

Answer 3

neurodiversity

Question 4

It includes deficits in intellectual functions and adaptive functioning that limit daily life activities, with onset during the developmental period.

Answer 4

Intellectual Developmental Disorder.

Question 5

characterized by persistent deficits in social communication and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior and interests across multiple contexts.

Answer 5

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?

Question 6

Specifiers for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Answer 6

Specifiers indicate current severity of impairment and whether there is accompanying intellectual or language impairment.

Question 7

pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning, present before age 12 and in multiple settings.

Answer 7

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Question 8

What are the subtypes of ADHD?

Answer 8

The subtypes include Combined Presentation, Predominantly Inattentive Presentation, and Predominantly Hyperactive/Impulsive Presentation.

Question 9

What are “specifiers” in the context of mental health diagnoses?

Answer 9

They provide additional information about the diagnosis

Question 10

Mutually exclusive, jointly exhaustive subgroupings within a diagnosis

Answer 10

subtypes

Question 11

What is the primary purpose of the DSM’s “Specify whether” in the diagnostic criteria?

Answer 11

To detail the variations within a diagnosis