PSYC 690J3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Human Sexual Response Cycle, Bulimia Nervosa, Psychogenic Amnesia
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Disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence. Intellectual, emotional, and physical disorders that usually begin in infancy, childhood or adolescence. The child with separation anxiety disorder has excessive anxiety about being away from home or parents. Children with conduct disorder repeatedly violate special norms and rules] Indiv with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have difficulty sustaining attention and are unable to control their activity when the situation calls for it. Indiv with mental retardation (listed axis ii) show subnormal intellectual functioning and deficits in adaptive functioning. The pervasive developmental disorders include autistic disorder, a severe condition in which the indiv has problems in acquiring communication skills and deficits in relating to other ppl. Learning disorders refer to delays in the acquisition of speech, reading, arithmetic and writing skills. A substance related disorder is diagnosed when the ingestion of some substance- alcohol, opiates, cocaine, amphetamines and so on has changed beh enough to impair social or occupational functioning.