Term | Definition |
Anxiety Disorder | Symptoms are: excessive fear, worry, or uneasiness. |
Separation Anxiety Disorder | Intense fear being away from, home, family, or other things/people the child is attached to. |
Generalized Anxiety Disorder | A lot of worry about nothing in particular or no cause. |
Phobia | Unrealistic fear of things/situations. |
Obsessive-compulsive Disorder | Obsession that involves repetitive, persistent, and intrusive impulses, images, or thoughts. (fear of being sick or dying, example Monk)
Or repetitive behavior (excessive hand washing) |
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PDST) | Flashbacks and other symptoms caused by a traumatic event/time. For example, war vets think they may be under fire when they hear a car backfire. |
Mood Disorder | Extreme moods. May be extremely depressed to extremely excited/hyper. |
Bipolar Disorder | A mood disorder that consists of extreme mood swings, where they will quickly go from depressed to mania, in an instant. |
Oppositional Defiant Disorder | Patterns of negative, hostile, disobedient, and defiant behaviors. |
Conduct Disorder | Patterns of anti-social behavior that interfere with others.
Four categories:
1.Aggressive conduct-may physically harm others
2.Property destruction
3.Theft/deceitfulness
4.Serious rule violations, ex. running away |
Schizophrenia | Highly unusual delusions, hallucinations of one voice in your head talking to you, about characteristics, behavior, feelings, or multiple voices.
Catatonic behavior
Loss of realtity |
Catatonic Behavior | Lack of movement, activity, or expression. |
Externalizing Behavior | Constantly acting out, aggressiveness, and/or non-compliant behavior. |
Bullying | A form of externalizing behavior, where someone may verbally abuse or physically abuse someone. |
Internalizing Behavior | Consists of withdrawal, anxiety, depression, obsessions and/or compulsive behavior. |
Temperament | Behaviors that are biologically based. It involves environmental factors. |
Environmental Considerations | School Factors
Family Factors |
Wrap-around | Service that addresses all the needs to specific child with a specific problem. It is family-driven, collaborative, individualized, culturally competent, and community and strengths based. |