PSYC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Overdiagnosis, Comorbidity, Developmental Disorder
19 May 2018
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PSYCH 210 – Adult Abnormal Psychology
Lecture 21
ADHD:
- six or more manifestations of poor attention control for 6 months or more
- present in multiple settings
- not just in classroom and not at home
- Impairment in social, academic or occupational setting
6 or more of either column:
Attention deficit:
- Doesn't pay attention
- Can’t sustain attention
- Doesn't listen
- Doesn't follow through
- Can’t organize
- Avoids mental effect
- Loses things
- Easily distracted
- Forgetful in daily activities
Hyperactivity:
- Fidgety
- Can’t sit in one place
- Inappropriately active
- Can’t handle quiet activities
- High energy
- Excessively talkative
- Frequently interrupts
- Can't wait his/ her turn ‘
- Intrudes/ talks over
Create impairment
Not better explained by other disorders
- Important because there are adult disorders like depression are not specified for children - need
to see whether bad things happening are just making the kid feel miserable as opposed to ADHD
Need to compare w same age group - can’t compare 9-year-old with an adult
Needs to be more trait like than state like
Over-diagnosis of ADHD becasue not rigorous effort to make sure that things that occur in one
context also appear in other contexts
Subtype:
- Inattentive
- Hyperactive-impulsive
- Combined subtype - most common
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Document Summary
Six or more manifestations of poor attention control for 6 months or more. Not just in classroom and not at home. Impairment in social, academic or occupational setting. Important because there are adult disorders like depression are not specified for children - need to see whether bad things happening are just making the kid feel miserable as opposed to adhd. Need to compare w same age group - can"t compare 9-year-old with an adult. Needs to be more trait like than state like. Over-diagnosis of adhd becasue not rigorous effort to make sure that things that occur in one context also appear in other contexts. Lack of self-control can lead to anxiety. Or depression symptoms can look similar to adhd symptoms. Psycho-stimulants - inhibit or reverse the effect of the dopamine transport. Stimulants block dat, or with drugs like amphetamine, it reverses that (spits out dopamine) and increase release that way. Drugs like ritalin have less of a dramatic effect.
