KINESIOL 3B03 Lecture 5: Emotional Disorders – section 4
5 Jun 2016
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Behavioural disorders / emotional disorders socially unacceptable actions / conduct. Socially maladjusted emotionally handicapped emotionally disturbed psychotic withdrawn violent. 2 10% ?? include juvenile delinquents. Middle school years decline high school except conduct disorder: increases in early high school, boys more aggressive, girls more truant / sexual promiscuity. Autism spectrum disorder (asd) = pervasive development disorder. Always occurs before 3 years of age. Autism spectrum disorder diagnostic criteria 299. 00 (f84. 0) (see lecture slides) Specify current severity: severity is based on social communication impairments and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior. Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities, as manifested by at least two of the following, currently or by history: Stereotyped or repetitive motor movements, use of objects, or speech (flipping objects, echolalia, idiosyncratic phrases). Insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines, or ritualized patterns of verbal or nonverbal behavior. Highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus (preoccupation with unusual objects, excessively circumscribed or perseverative interests).
