PSYCH317 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Pediatric Schizophrenia, Neurodevelopmental Disorder, Intellectual Disability
1 Mar 2016
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Auism or asd, complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by abnormaliies in social communicaion and unusual behaviors and interests. Persistent deicits in social interacion and communicaion skills and by restricted, and repeiive paterns of interests and behaviors. Auism and childhood onset schizophrenia use to be thought of as the same thing. Preservaion of sameness an anxious and obsessive insistence on the maintenance of sameness in daily rouines and aciviies, which no one but the child may disrupt. Some children with asd display extreme fear or avoidance of noisy or moving objects. Oten develop unusual atachments or reacions to odd objects. May spend hours engaging in stereotyped or repeiive motor aciviies or focus on muscle details of their world rather than their enire environment. The core features of asd are represented by two symptom domains. Restricted, repeiive paterns of behavior, interests or aciviies. To receive diagnosis child must display symptoms in both domains.
