PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psychiatric Hospital, Totalitarianism, Deinstitutionalisation
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Developmental to mean that it occurs and is diagnosed during a developmental period (aka while you"re living with your parents such as infancy and up). Neuro denotes that there is a presumed neurological basis (not for sure though, but presumed). Asd and id often go together, adhd and specific learning disorder). Something to keep in mind: assessing and diagnosing children requires a lot of experience (in fact, psychopathology in children is its own area of expertise). Another reason is because we need to compare what the kids are presenting to what is developmentally normal. See dsm (slides 10-12) notes: adhd can be diagnosed in adults as long as it started/happened in childhood. If it only started/happened in adulthood then it"s other specified attention disorder . For it to be properly diagnosed it must actually be interfering with functioning (see criteria d). Ex: my kids performance in school doesn"t match his iq (due to the adhd).
