Anxiety Disorders
Characterized by a developmentally inappropriate and excessive anxiety concerning being away from home or away from the person(s) to whom the individual is attached.
Separation Anxiety Disorder
Involves either recurrent thoughts, urges , or images that are experienced as intrusive and cause distress or anxiety and/or repetitive behaviors (e.g., checking, hand-washing) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting) the person feels driven to do in order to cope with an obsession or to comply with rigid rules.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
The hallmark of this disorder is a consistent pattern of inhibited, emotionally withdrawn behavior toward the caregiver, as manifest by the child rarely seeking or responding to comfort when distressed.
Reactive Attachment Disorder
Characterized by one or more somatic symptoms that are distressing or result in significant disruption of daily life (excessive thoughts, feelings, or behaviors related to the somatic symptoms). While the somatic symptom may not be present continuously, the worries are persistent
Somatic Symptom Disorder
Persistent eating of nonnutritive, nonfood substances for a period of at least one month. This can include paint, plaster, insects, leaves, or soil.
Pica
Involves a consistent failure to speak in specific social situations when speaking is expected, in spite of speaking in other situations.
Selective Mutism
The person is preoccupied with one or more perceived defects in appearance (e.g., related to the skin, hair, nose). The perceived flaws are either not observable or slight.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
An individual with this disorder has been exposed to a traumatic event (actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence). The individual experiences intrusive symptoms, avoidance of stimuli associated with trauma, negative cognitions and mood, and increased arousal for more than one month.
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Involves one or more symptoms or deficits affecting voluntary motor or sensory function. The symptoms, which are not intentionally produced, are incompatible with recognized neurological or medical conditions.
Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder)
Characterized by a restriction of food intake, leading to a significantly low body weight. There is intense fear of gaining weight or behavior that interferes with weight gain.
Anorexia Nervosa
Involves a marked fear or anxiety caused by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or situation. Exposure to the stimulus provokes an immediate anxiety response (which may include a panic attack) and the phobic situation is either avoided or endured with intense distress.
Specific Phobia
Involves persistent difficulty throwing out or giving up possessions, regardless of actual value. The difficulty is due to a perceived need to save items and distress associated with discarding items, which results in a cluttered living space.
Hoarding Disorder
Involves the presence of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable psychosocial stressor. The person experiences marked distress in excess of what would be expected or there is significant impairment in functioning.
Adjustment Disorder
Characterized by intentional feigning of physical or psychological symptoms, or by creation of injury or disease. The individual presents self (or other) as ill, impaired, or injured, and there is an absence of external incentives for the behavior.
Factitious Disorder
Characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by inappropriate compensatory behavior to prevent weight gain (e.g., laxatives, vomiting, enemas, fasting, or excessive exercise).
Bulimia Nervosa
Involves fear of one or more social situations in which the person is exposed to potential scrutiny by others.
Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
Involves recurrent pulling out of one’s own hairs (most typically from the scalp, eyebrows, and eyelids), resulting in noticeable hair loss, with repeated attempts to decrease or stop hair pulling.
Trichotillomania
An individual with this disorder has been exposed to a traumatic event (actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence). The individual experiences intrusive symptoms, avoidance of stimuli associated with trauma, negative cognitions and mood, and increased arousal. Symptoms have been present for less than a month.
Acute Stress Disorder
The most severe and dramatic presentation of factitious disorder. The symptoms are predominantly physical and the syndrome can include extensive travel and seeking of multiple invasive procedures and operations, sometimes with serious risk to life. Impersonation and fabrication often accompany the syndrome.
Munchausen Syndrome
Characterized by a failure to eat adequately with one or more of the following: significant weight loss or failure to achieve expected weight gains, significant nutritional deficiency, dependence on a feeding tube or oral nutritional supplements, or marked interference with psychosocial functioning.
Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
Involves intense fear or anxiety about two or more situations: using public transportation, being in open spaces, being in enclosed spaces, standing in line or being in a crowd, or being outside the home.
Agoraphobia
Recurrent picking at one’s own skin (most typically the face, arms, and hands) resulting in skin lesions, with repeated attempts to decrease or stop picking.
Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder
The hallmark of this disorder is behavior in which a child actively approaches and interacts with adult strangers (e.g., overly familiar behavior with strangers that violate cultural social boundaries).
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
Involves a preoccupation with having or developing a serious illness. Somatic symptoms are mild or not present, and there is significant anxiety about health.
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Repeated regurgitation of food for at least one month. The regurgitated food may be re-chewed, re-swallowed, or spit out.
Rumination Disorder