PSYC 3220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Autism Spectrum, Comorbidity, Intellectual Disability
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Icd developed by who, used everywhere but usa (new zealand uses both: all mental disorders are included (ex. all genetic disorders) Difficult to target one specific disorder in child psychopathology. The data doesn"t generalize well because most kids don"t have pure disorder (just one disorder) Problem for clinicians and scientists symptoms are too overlapping that the comorbidity is false; or but the symptoms might be misleading to be comorbid. Most common comorbidities: adhd and other disruptive behaviours (adhd vs. Odd vs. cd: autism spectrum disorder and mental retardation (intellectual disability and cognitive impairments, depressive disorders and anxiety disorders. Referral bias by the time a child is referred to a clinician, they"re probably more impaired as well (probably because of parental desperation: parents and children who wait for participating into research studies, kids have comorbidity. Nosological confusion: nosology how we label, categorize and classify things (disorders) Impulsion can be categorized in many different disorders (ocd, cd)