01:830:340 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Prefrontal Cortex, Eating Disorder
19 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Externalizing disorders: most commonly diagnosed in childhood disorders; characterized by failure to control behavior according to the expectation of others. Symptoms include rule violations, anger and aggression, disobeying parents or teachers, annoying peers, impulsively and defects in attention. Kids who have these problems before adolescent are more likely to have them in adult life. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (diagnosed in early elementary school, executive function issues): distractibility, frequent shifts from one uncomplicated activity to another, careless mistakes, poor organization, general spiciness. *prefrontal cortical-striatal network controls executive functions in the brain. Oppositional defiant disorder (psychosocial interventions): a pattern of hostile, negativistic and deviant behavior. *children who have this will experience half of them with antisocial behavior in adulthood. Conduct disorder (relational aggression in girls): defined by a pattern of behavior that is illegal and antisocial; juvenile delinquency is a legal classification. Causes of externalizing and internalizing disorders (biological, social, psychology)
