PSY341H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Pediatric Schizophrenia
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Autism spectrum disorder & schizophrenia are characterized by pervasive problems in social, emotional, and cognitive functioning that have a basis in neurobiological abnormality: these disorders in youth are now considered distinct from each other. Historically, these disorders were associated with adult psychoses that is, severely disruptive disturbances implying abnormal perceptions of reality. Psychotic disturbances were noted in early 20th century classifications of mental disorders based on. Bleuler applied the term schizophrenias to these disorders, which involve disturbances in reality, such as hearing voices and seeing images that do not exist. Ideas about psychoses & other severe disturbances developed gradually over many years. Some investigators described groups of children with early onset of schizophrenia, and others pointed to syndromes that appeared similar, but not identical, to schizophrenia: various diagnostic terms were applied, such as disintegrative psychoses & childhood psychoses. Around 1930 and several yrs afterward, childhood schizophrenia served as a general label for many severe early occurring disturbances.
