PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Role, Thought Disorder, Echolalia
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Systems have been created to categorize behavioural problems and provide guidelines for identification and treatment. Rarely are there biomarkers for a disorder, must diagnose based on behavioral traits. Dsm uses a categorical approach, based on type of behavioral expression and not the degree. Ex. failure to acquire language by age 6, teenager seeing and hearing things that. Ex. child who cannot settle, yelling and running about, cannot stay on one task . Ex. a child who is exceptionally sullen and withdrawn depression. Ex. a child with little language use, nonsense words, echolalic asd. Apa defines disorder as significant if it is: distressing and impairing, or if there is an increased risk of death, pain, disability, or loss of freedom. Behaviors that are not just atypical, but harmful. Behaviors that are developmentally inappropriate physical skills, language, cognition, emotion, social behavior. Judgments about behavior rely on developmental norms. Norms that usually describe the rate of growth, sequence of growth, forms of.
