ECPY 621

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ECPY 621 Class 4

• Disorders of Childhood

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Overview

• Review last week
• Review Case Conceptualization homework
• Follow up on Ethics
• Codes
• Childhood Dx

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Dx of Childhood

• Intellectual and Cognitive D/O
• Mental Retardation
• Mild (50/55 70)
• Moderate (35/40 50/55)
• Severe (20/25 30/25)
• Profound (gt 20/25)
• Learning D/O
• Reading
• Math
• Written Expression

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Dx of Childhood 2

• Intellectual and Cognitive D/O cont
• Motor Skills D/O
• Developmental Coordination D/O
• Tic D/O
• Tourettes D/O
• Chronic Motor or Vocal Tic D/O
• Transient Tic D/O
• Other
• Stereotypic Movement D/O

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Dx of Childhood 3

• Disruptive and Self Injurious D/O
• ADHD D/O
• Inattentive Type
• Hyperactive-Impulsive Type
• Combined Type
• Disruptive D/O
• Conduct D/O
• Oppositional Defiant D/O

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Dx of Childhood 4

• Disruptive and Self Injurious D/O cont
• Feeding and Eating D/O of infancy
• Pica
• Rumination
• Feeding D/O
• Elimination D/O
• Encopresis
• Enuresis

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Dx of Childhood 5

• Disruptive and Self Injurious D/O cont
• Other
• Separation Anxiety D/O
• Reactive Attachment D/O

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Dx of Childhood 6

• Information Exchange D/O
• Pervasive Developmental D/O
• Autistic D/O
• Retts D/O
• Childhood Disintegrative D/O
• Aspergers D/O
• Communication D/O
• Expressive Language D/O
• Mixed Receptive-Expressive Language D/O
• Phonological D/O
• Stuttering

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Dx of Childhood 7

• Other D/O of Childhood
• Selective Mutism

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Needed Information

• Times of Developmental Milestones
• Capacity to communicate
• Language Impairment
• Capacity for human relations
• Quality of interactions
• Abnormal motor movements
• Hyperactivity/inattention/impulse control
  problems
• Abnormal Behaviors
• Enuresis/encopresis

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Developmental Milestones

• http//www.pediatrics.emory.edu/NEONATOLOGY/DPC/mi
  leston.htm

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Example of page

• TWO TO FIVE MONTHS
• Remember to use your childs corrected age when
  comparing her accomplishments to a developmental
  chart!  If your baby went home from the hospital
  in generally good health and is able to feed from
  breast or bottle you may expect that sometime
  from two to five months she will begin to
• smile and coo.
• watch a persons face intently.
• follow people and objects with her eyes
• laugh out loud.
• lift her head and chest when on her stomach.
• independently hold her head steady when pulled to
  sit.
• .grasp a rattle placed in her hand.
• startle when she hears a loud sound.
• EXCEPTIONS                                        
                                                 
  CONCERNS

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Specifics

• Table 2-2 pg 54
• Conduct D/O

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Additional Readings

• Child's View of Anxiety Imp in ADHD.doc
• Chronic Obesity Linked to Psychopathology in
  Youth.htm
• Conduct Disorder A Newsmaker Interview With
  Robert L_ Findling, MD.htm
• Down's Syndrome.doc
• KISSLER Tourettes is more common than thought.doc
• Medscape Resource Center - Attention
  Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder.htm
• TYPES OF ADHD ACCORDING TO GEORGE AMEN.doc
• Who First Suggests the Diagnosis of ADHD.htm

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Readings for next week

• New Research in Schizophrenia
• Micron Particles in Spinal Fluid
• Relation between Schizophrenia and diabetes
• Schizophrenia.htm

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Discussion Group

• On website
• Use correct forum
• http//www.webpemberton.com/cgi-bin/blah/Blah.pl