01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Developmental Psychopathology, Conduct Disorder
11 Jan 2020
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Developmental psychopathology is essential to disorder of childhood because children change rapidly during the first 20 years of life. Few children or adolescents identify themselves as having an externalizing disorder. When externalizing disorder is frequent, intense and pervasive, it is called externalizing syndrome. Before 12-more likely to persist into adulthood. An early indicator of life long problems. Attention deficits (problem with sustained attention as measured with the continuous performance task) Characterized by hyperactivity, attention deficit, and impulsivity. Hyperactivity is a separate symptom from inattention-inattention is distraction-not behavioral issues. Dsm-v categorizes this disorder under neurodevelopmental disorders with intellectual disabilities and autism and specific learning disorders. Defined by a pattern of negative, hostile, and defiant behavior. The symptoms must last for at least six months, and, as with other diagnoses, they must cause clinically significant impairment in life functioning. Minor transgressions refusing to obey adults, arguments.
