PSY 30312 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Sluggish Cognitive Tempo, Mental Disorder, Dsm-5
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Children are inattentive to details, easily distracted, careless, not listening, unfocused, disorganized, unable to sustain effort, and forgetful. Find it hard to remember things, have a learning disability, and display low academic achievement. Anxious and apprehensive and socially withdrawn may display mood disorders. Children who display both clinically significant symptoms of inattention and subclinical, but still substantial, levels of hyperactivity-impulsivity. Children whose inattentive symptoms are linked to problems with arousal and sluggish cognitive tempo (sct) Includes a cluster of symptoms such as daydreaming, trouble staying awake, mentally foggy, slow processing of information, stares a lot, spacey, loss of train of thought, forgets what was going to say, and appears lethargic: 3. Children with this form are more likely to display problems in inhibiting behavior and in behavioral persistence. More likely to be defiant, rejected by peers, and suspended from school.
