PSYC 3710 Chapter Notes -Dsm-5, Stuttering, Etiology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3710
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

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At school) despite speaking in other situations: the disturbance interferes with educational or occupational achievement or with social communication, the duration of the disturbance is at least 1 month (not limited to the first month of school, the failure to speak is not due to a lack of knowledge of, or comfort with, the spoken language required in the social situation, the disturbance is not better accounted for by a communication disorder (ex. The child doesn"t exhibit problems at school: characteristics of depression in children and adolescents, depressed mood/sadness, loss of interest in activities, failure to make expected weight gains, sleep problems, psychomotor slowing or agitation, fatigue, excessive guilt. Complaining of stomach aches, etc. without any physical foundation: characteristics of anxiety in children and adolescents, negative and unrealistic thoughts, misinterpretation of symptoms and events, panic attacks, obsessive/compulsive behavior, hypersensitivity to physical cues.