Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts. Restrictive, repetitive patterns of behaviors, interest, or activities.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder
What is one key feature that defines Psychotic Disorders that are fixed beliefs that are not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence; content may vary in themes of persecutory, referential, somatic, religious, grandiose.
What is Delusions.
What is the differentiation between manic and hypo-manic.
What is severity of impairment.
What is the diagnosis of an individual experiencing the symptoms of severe recurrent temper outbursts manifested verbally and/or behaviorally that are grossly out of proportion in intensity or duration to the situation or provocation; occurring 3 or more times per week w/ mood between temper outburst persistently irritable or angry.
What is Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder.
What is the diagnosis of an individual experiencing the symptoms of developmentally inappropriate and excessive fear or disquietude concerning distance from those to whom the individual is connected?
What is Separation Anxiety Disorder.
A persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with function or development.
What is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
What is one key feature that defines Psychotic Disorders that are perception-like experiences that occur without an external stimulus; they are vivid and clear, with the full force and impact of normal perceptions, and not under voluntary control.
What are Hallucinations.
What symptoms category must be met in Bipolar I versus Bipolar II?
What is Manic Episode.
What is the diagnosis of an individual experiencing the symptoms of markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or most activities most of the day, nearly everyday; significant weight loss when not dieting (5% body weight in a month); insomnia or hypersomnia; feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt.
What is Major Depressive Disorder.
What is the diagnosis of an individual experiencing the symptoms of difficulty to control the worry, restlessness, being easily fatigued, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbances?
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
What is a screening tool for ADHD that was created in 2002 by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ)? It also the name of a private University in Nashville, Tennessee.
What is the Vanderbilt Assessment Scales.
What is one key feature that defines Psychotic Disorders that are typically inferred from the individual's communication; the individual may switch from one topic to another; answers to questions may be obliquely related or completely unrelated.
What are disorganized thinking (speech).
What is the diagnosis of an individual experiencing the symptoms of hypomania and depression, though not full criteria meet for diagnosis of hypomania or depression for a period of 2 years or greater.
What is Cyclothymic Disorder.
What is the diagnosis of an individual experience symptoms of Major Depression for a period of 2 years or greater?
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder.
What is the diagnosis of an individual experiencing the symptoms of marked fear or disquietude in the following situations of using public transportation, being in open spaces, being in enclosed places, standing in line or in a crowd, or being outside of the home alone.
What is Agoraphobia.
What is one of the most widely used and empirically validated autism assessments tools?
What is the CARS-2-ST.
What is the diagnosis w/ the presenting information of an individual struggling w/ fixed beliefs that are not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence; w/ theme presented that individual is being conspired against, cheated, spied on, followed, poisoned or drugged, maliciously maligned, harasses, or obstructed in the pursuit of long-term goals.
What is Delusional Disorder, Persecutory type.
What is the specifier that identifies the symptoms of feeling keyed up or tense, feeling unusually restless, difficulty concentrating because of worry, fear that something awful may happen, and/or may lose control of self that is present concurrently w/ Bipolar symptoms.
What is with Anxious Distress.
What is the specifier that identifies the symptoms that occur at a particular time of the year that is present concurrently w/ Major Depressive symptoms.
What is Seasonal Pattern.
What is the diagnosis of an individual experiencing the symptoms of an abrupt surge of intense fear or intense discomfort that reaches a peak within minutes, w/ somatic symptoms of accelerated heart rate, sweating, trembling, shaking, sensations of shortness of breath, feelings of choking, chest pain or discomfort, nausea, feeling dizzy, chills or heat sensations.
What is Panic Disorder.
What is a differential diagnosis for ADHD that would be observational or reported information of individuals resisting school work tasks that require self-application because they resist conforming to others' demands. Observational behaviors of negativity, hostility, and defiance.
What is Oppositional Defiance Disorder.
What is the diagnosis w/ the presenting information of an individual struggling w/ hallucinations, delusions, and depressed mood concurrently for a period greater than a month.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder.
What is the specifier that identifies the presence of at least four mood episodes in the previous 12 months that meet the criteria for manic, hypomanic, or major depressive episode?
What is Rapid Cycling.
What is the specifier that identifies the symptoms that occur during pregnancy or 4 weeks following pregnancy that is present concurrently w/ Major Depressive symptoms.
What is Peripartum Onset.
What is the diagnosis of an individual experiencing the symptoms of marked fear or disquietude about one or more social situations in which the individual is exposed to possible scrutiny by others; the individual fears that he or she will act in a way or show symptoms that will be negatively evaluated.
What is Social Anxiety.