PSYCH-230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Binge Eating, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder
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These symptoms need to be a problem all the time, they are at risk developing other disorders and getting worse. Risk factors- try to identify kids at risk and try to prevent it. Difficult divorce, chaos, fighting, arguing, stress in the home. Parental pathology effects child by genetic and environment. Temperament (innate disposition)easy, difficult, slow to warm up. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder- most common childhood disorder for. Inattention: trouble paying attention and focusing, easily distractible, cant pay attention to detail, following directions, listening. Impulsivity: act with out thinking, dangerous, crossing street, cant wait their mean to be disruptive but it happens. Hyperactive: much more active, fidgety, restless, tapping, making noises, around, interrupting, talk a lot. Inattentive: don"t show activity, disruptive type, so they fall through the cracks because they are just not paying attention or they are day dreaming. Impulsivity is more at risk for developing more sever disorders. Treatment- medication (monitored y a psychiatrist) therapy and interventions.
