Chapter 16

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Developmental psychopathology

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Studies the origins and course of individual maladaptation in the context of nomal growth proccess.

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Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

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Is characterized by difficulties that interfere with effective task oriented behavior in children. Particularly impulsivity, excessiveness, or exagerated motor activity such as aimless or haphazard running or fidgetting and difficulties in sustaining attention.

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Juvenille deliquency

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Is the legal term used to refer to violations of the law committed by minors

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Oppositional Defiant Disorder

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Chilhood disorder that appears by age 6 and is characterized by persistent acts of aggressive antisocial behavior that may or may not be against the law.

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Conduct Disorder

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Childhood and adolecent disorder that can appera by age 9 and are marked by persistent acts of aggressive or antisocial behavior that may or may not be against the law.

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Separation Anxiety Disorder

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Most common anxiety disorder in childhood it is characterized by unrealistic fears, oversensitivity, self-concoiusness, nightmares and chronic anxiety.

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Selective Mutisim

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A condition that involves the persistent failure to speak in specific social settings, EX School or in social groups, that is considered to interfere with education or development.

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Enuresis

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Refers to the habitual involuntary discharge of urine after the expected age of continence (age 5)

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Encopresis

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Describes a symptom disorder of children who have not learned appropriate toleting for bowl movements after age 4

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Sleepwalking Disorder

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Disorder of childhood that involves repeated episodes of leaving the bed and walking around without being concious of the expirience or remembering it later.

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Tic

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Is a persistent, intermittent muscle twicth or spasm usually limitted to a localized muscle group.

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Tourrett's Syndrome

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Is an extreme tic disorder involving multiple motor and vocal patterns. Typically involves uncontrolable head movements with accompaning sounds such as yelps, grunts, sniffs or words. Some, possibly most, tics are precedded by an urge or sensation that seems to be relieved by the excecution of the tic.

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Pervasive Developmental Disprder (PDD)

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Severly disabling conditions marked by deficits in language, perceptual, and motor development, defective reality testing, and inability to function in social situations.

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Asberger's Disorder

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Severe and sustained childhood imparement in social relatioships with particular behaviors, but without the language delay seen in autism.

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Autism

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Pervasive developmental disorder begining in infancy and involving a widerange of problematic behaviors, including deficits in laguage perception and motor development, deffective reality testing and social withdrawl.

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Learning Disbilities

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Refers to reatardation, disordered or delayed development, may be manifested in language, speech, math or motor skills, and it is not due to any relably demostrated physical or neurological distress.

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Dyslexia

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The individual manifest problems in word recognition and reading comprehension

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Mental Retardation

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Signicantly subavarage general intelectual functioning that is accompanied by significant limitations in adaptive functioning and it is obvious during the developmental period

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Down Syndrome

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Form of moderate to severe retardation associatted with chromosomal abnormality and typically accompanied by characteristics of physical features

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Phenylketonuria(PKU)

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Type of mental retardation resulting from a baby's lack of a liver enzyme needed to breakdown phenylalanine, an amino acid found in many foods.

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Mianstreeming

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Placement of mentally retarded children in regular school classroom for all or part of the day.