PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Stimulant, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Randomized Controlled Trial
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Clinical descriptions: childhood disorders are often organized into two domains: externalizing disorders and internalizing disorders. Externalizing disorders are characterized by such behaviors as aggressiveness, noncompliance, overactivity, and impulsiveness; they include attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder. Conduct disorder is sometimes a precursor to antisocial personality disorder in adulthood, though many children carrying the diagnosis do not progress to that extreme. Most professionals, however, focus more on the strengths of individuals with mental retardation than on their assignment to a particular level of severity. The major symptoms are a failure to relate to other people, communication problems, consisting of either a failure to learn any language or speech irregularities, such as echolalia and pronoun reversal, and theory of mind problems. Etiology: there is strong evidence for genetic and neurobiological factors in the etiology of. Low birth weight and maternal smoking are also risk factors.
