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Emotional experience or expression of agitation or destructiveness directed at a particular object or individual. Common physical feelings include accelerated heartbeat, muscle tension, quicker breathing, and feeling hot.
Anger
Detailed description of amount of involvement in specific community activities within the child’s day.
Community Involvement
Peer and/or sibling relationships that are characterized by fighting, bullying, defiance, revenge, taunting, incessant teasing and other inappropriate behaviors.
Peer/Sibling Conflict
Reluctance or refusal to attend school without adult permission for the absence. May be associated with school phobia or fear manifested by frequent somatic complaints associated with attending school or in anticipation of school attendance, or willful avoidance of school in the interest of pursuing other activities.
School-Refusal/ Truancy
A general uneasiness that can be characterized by irrational fears, panic, tension, physical symptoms (e.g., stomach aches, difficulty breathing, accelerated heartbeat, muscle tension, sweatiness, dizziness), and/or excessive anxiety, worry, or fear.
Anxiety
Addressing issues related to student social, emotional, or behavioral response to a disaster, such as wildfires.
Disaster Response
Challenges related to self-care and grooming.
Personal Hygiene
Acts of harm, violence, or aggression directed at oneself.
Self-Injurious Behavior
The skills or effectiveness of clearly communicating one’s wishes. For example, the effectiveness with which a child refuses unreasonable requests from others, expresses his/her/their rights in a non-aggressive manner, and/or negotiates to get what he/she/they wants in relationships with others.
Refers to the repeated pattern of voluntarily or involuntarily passing urine into inappropriate places (e.g., bed, clothes) during the day or at night. Encopresis refers to a repeated pattern of voluntarily or involuntarily passing feces into inappropriate places (e.g., bed, clothes) during the day or at night.
Enuresis/Encopresis
Issues related to healthy communication, problem-solving, shared pleasurable activities, physical and emotional support, etc. in the context of interactions among multiple persons in a family relation, broadly defined.
Positive Family Functioning
Issues related to recurrent thoughts, gestures, or attempts to end one’s life.
Suicidality
Issues related to finding or stabilizing an appropriate living situation for a youth and/or establishing a safe and secure environment for the youth’s development (formerly housing/living situation and safe environment).
Attending to Basic Needs
Behavior characterized by little or no forethought, reflection, or consideration of the consequences of an action that impairs functioning. This can include behaviors that put a youth at risk, including emotional dysregulation. Behaviors that are purely physical or motoric (e.g., shaking legs) should be coded as hyperactivity. Impulsivity related to self-injurious behavior and mania should be coded under those behaviors respectively.
Impulsivity
Social interaction and communication with peers that are pro-social and appropriate. This differs from peer involvement in that it focuses on interactional behavior, styles, and intentions, whereas peer involvement targets actual engagement in activities with peers regardless of interactional processes
Positive Peer Interaction
Issues related to targeting interest, motivation, or active participation in therapeutic activities. This includes targeting improved rapport.
Treatment Engagement
Behaviors aimed at escaping or preventing exposure to a particular situation or stimulus.
Avoidance
An inflated self-perception that can be manifested by a loud, overly friendly social style that oversteps social boundaries, high energy and restlessness, and a reduced need for sleep.
Mania
Running away from home or current residential placement for a day or more.
Runaway/Elopement
Any written response to an open-ended question that could not be categorized into another treatment target sub-category and did not necessitate the addition of a new category.
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