PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Developmental Coordination Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disorder
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Last disorder in each is nos not otherwise specified, which is change on dsm. Intectual ability can tell right from childhood and autism can be diagnosed right from childhood- mental retardation and childhood schizophrenia now called autism. Some children lose touch with reality, as autism is recognized as-a psychiotic condition. These people don"t live in the same world or not responding int eh same way to stimuli compared with other infants. That term was abondoned because hallmarks for schizophrenia is halluciantions, dillusions so now abondoned and replaced with autsim. Intellectual disability only reffered to people with a deficit in intellect. Dsm iv- two cateogries dsm v-not more categories of child disorders instead eliminated. Iv had a section on child disorders, meant that it first saw symptoms in childhood. Adults can show adhd but is different then childrens. Categories have been reorganized into sections with similar sections in dsm v, autism is in psychiotic disorders.
