Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
A neurodevelopmental condition marked by persistent and substantial difficulties in learning and using foundational academic skills—such as reading, writing, or mathematics—that begin during school-age years and are well below expected levels for a person's age.
What is Specific Learning Disorder?
This diagnosis involves emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor occurring within 3 months of the event, which do not persist for more than 6 months after the stressor or its consequences have ended.
What is adjustment disorder?
These fixed, false beliefs about oneself or the world persist despite clear, contrary evidence and are a hallmark of schizophrenia.
What is a delusion?
This chronic form of depression requires an adult to experience a depressed mood for most of the day, more days than not, for at least two years
What is persistent depressive disorder?
This disorder is characterized by an intense fear of being in situations where escape might be difficult or help wouldn't be available if things go wrong
What is agoraphobia?
This childhood behavioral disorder is defined by a recurrent pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness lasting at least six months.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
This is the stress glucocorticoid that prepares the body for fight-or-flight
What is cortisol?
This condition includes symptoms of schizophrenia but lasts for a duration of only 1 to 6 months.
What is schizophreniform disorder?
This is a distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and abnormally and persistently increased goal-directed activity or energy, lasting at least 1 week (or any duration if hospitalization is necessary).
What is a manic episode?
This is a mental health condition characterized by an irresistible, repetitive urge to pull out one's own hair from the scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, or other parts of the body
What is trichotillomania?
Common in individuals on the autism spectrum, this term describes the automatic or meaningful repetition of words or phrases spoken by another person.
What is echolalia?
This external event, situation, or demand—such as a looming deadline or a traffic jam—triggers your body's physical and emotional reaction.
What is a stressor?
This type of psychiatric stupor leaves a patient completely motionless, uncommunicative, and sometimes frozen like a statue.
What is catatonic?
To meet the diagnostic criteria for MDD, a patient must exhibit at least five symptoms for two weeks, and at least one of them must be either of these two core symptoms.
What is depressed mood or anhedonia.
These are unwanted, intrusive, and distressing thoughts, urges, or mental images that repeat in the mind and trigger intense anxiety
What are obsessions?
Examples for this type of symptom category in ADHD include: Being easily distracted; Difficulty organizing tasks and activities; and forgetfulness in daily activities.
What is inattention?
This short-term stress disorder lasts from 3 days to 1 month after a trauma
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, and disorganized behavior can be categorized as this type of symptom in schizophrenia that represent an excess or distortion of normal functions.
What are positive symptoms?
Often reserved for severe, treatment-resistant depression this type of therapy can dramatically reduce active suicidal thoughts within just a few treatments.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
In this disorder, one key feature is that the individual performs repetitive behaviors such as mirror checking, excessive grooming, skin picking, or reassurance seeking or mental acts in response to concerns with their appearance.
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
In order to meet DSM-5-TR criteria for an Intellectual Developmental Disorder (Intellectual Disability), an individual needs to demonstrate these 2 types of deficits in these areas with onset during the developmental period.
What are intellectual and adaptive functioning?
Some examples for this symptom category for PTSD include: hypervigilance; sleep disturbance; irritability; and problems with concentration.
What is marked alterations in arousal and reactivity?
The antipsychotic group most associated with extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) and movement side effects.
What are first-generation antipsychotics?
Both of these chronic mood disorders require symptoms to be present for at least two years in adults (or one year in children and adolescents).
What are persistent depressive disorder and cyclothymic disorder?
Though no longer considered a first-line treatment for GAD due to dependency risks, this fast-acting class of drugs includes Xanax, Valium, and Ativan.
What are benzodiazepines?