PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Methylphenidate, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Asperger Syndrome
16 Sep 2014
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100 questions- 50 questions from chapters 13, 15 and 17 (chapter 2 pages 40-58) and lectures on personality disorders, child disorders and interventions: 50 questions from other lectures (not first three) and others (besides chapters 1, 3, 5, 7: focuses on stress, addictions, schizophrenia, mmpi (anything that was focused on heavily) Cognitive misattributions view neutral peer behaviour as aggressive. Intermittent explosive disorder: treatment of externalizing, early intervention is key, parent education, involvement of family and society contexts, conduct disorders are particularly difficult to treat. Neurodevelopmental disorders: motor disorders-tics and tourette"s disorder, tics: involuntary, repetitive movements or vocalizations. Examples of motor tics: blinking, facial grimacing, head jerking, foot tapping, nostril flaring. Social deficits, impairments in expressiveness, restrictive and repetitive interests similar as those with autism. More prevalent than autism: asd- not otherwise specified (nos) had been too frequently diagnosed but now eliminated. Dsm-5 now combines previous three categories- reading disorder, mathematical disorder, disorder of written expression.
