YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Challenge of Categorizing Psychological Disorders
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could say that he reinvented it. DSM existed, but it was Spitzer who implemented important changes. For example, it is noted that ...
example, an individual with ADHD may not necessarily suffer from hyperactivity and thus they are generally deemed to have simply A...
1997). "Since 1980, alleged child abuse and neglect reports have more than doubled in this country [Child Welfare League of Ameri...
and others that underscore the connection between violence and urban life. "Data gathered by the Center for Disease Control (1995...
in the educational setting. The introduction outlines the problem, existing research and the underlying purpose of the study, to ...
to help herself. For example, being afraid to touch things without the aid of a barrier (tissue, etc.) for fear of contracting ge...
The designation "shell shock" was replaced by "combat fatigue" in the Second World...
difficulty grasping mathematical concepts (Fidler, Hodapp and Dyken, 2002). While not every child with WS fits this profile, a lar...
the occurrence and nonoccurrence of problem behaviors (2001). With the use of such an approach, the function of behavior is repres...
reasons, of course, often based on stereotypes of race, gender, age or income that lead them to believe a particular candidate wil...
As already noted, Kendall makes a strong case for getting to know the individual child before "pigeon-holing" him or her into a pa...
time and more than 90% would pass away before their first birthday without treatment (1996). Clearly, if nothing is done, chances ...
genetic cause is loss of yet unidentified genes normally contributed by the father" (Internet source). Information at the PWSAs we...
addiction, including salience, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, conflict and relapse" (Griffiths, 2001, p. 333). Intern...
to measure conduct disorder (Kazdin, 1995, 45) " Kazdins "Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence"...
the fact that snoring, in and of itself, is not indicative of sleep apnea; rather, it is but one telltale symptom (Hunt, 2002)....
is a distinct difference between relatively simple shyness and the disorder. According to a report from the Ascribe Higher Educati...
This paper of five pages provides a critical overview of the material that addresses ADD. There are eight bibliographic sources c...
to a lack of social skills, or rather, the lack of the ability to use the social skills are prevalent in all environments. Child...
actually felt the building shake, for example, are at the most risk for the disorder (2001). At the same time, one psychologist cl...
conjunction between visual input and the organisation of complex behavioural patterns. Studies which have compared the higher cogn...
p. 7) of children and adolescents. Scientists had long suspected that a major component of the problem is a malfunction in the br...
habits are partially responsible for keeping him at arms length from the rest of the world. Considered for decades to be a diseas...