WEEK 8
Week 8 Assignment
Create a study guide for your assigned disorder. Your study guide should be in the form of
an outline with references. You should incorporate visual elements such as concept maps,
charts, diagrams, images, color coding, mnemonics, and flashcards. Be creative! It should
not be in the format of an APA paper. Your guide should be informed by the DSM-5-TR and
supported by at least three other scholarly resources.
Areas of importance you should address, but are not limited to, are:
Definition:
Autism is a developmental disorder that leaves an individual with difficulty with social
interactions in the community, resulting in isolation.
It is referred to as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and encompasses previously defined
different yet similar conditions like Asperger syndrome.
The disorder is along a spectrum of communication and interaction deficits and restrictive
or repetitive behavior.
Described as a neurodevelopment disorder involving language, communication, and
social behaviors deficits.
ASD includes three disorders that used to be diagnosed separately, namely, autistic
disorder, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), and
Asperger syndrome.
Signs and symptoms according to the DSM-5-TR
, Before 2013, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for mental disorders, the fourth
edition of the DSM 4, Described autism as one of several pervasive developmental
disorders, including Asperger's syndrome.
The affected individual does not respond to names at 12 months and avoids eye contact.
He does not share interests with others and prefers to play alone.
Only interacts to achieve the desired goal and has flat or inappropriate facial expressions
Does not understand personal space boundaries and avoids or resists physical contact
He is not comforted by others during distress and has trouble understanding other
people's feelings or talking about his feelings.
Differential diagnoses:
. The problematics of differential diagnosis remain critical for clinical approaches to
autism.
Formalizations of the diagnostic procedures must remain open-minded and accompanied
by a creative clinical approach, especially in the case of complex situations that are not
soluble utilizing conventional diagnostic tools.
The Functional Analysis Screening Tool (FAST) is a 16-item questionnaire about
antecedent and consequent events that might be correlated with the occurrence of
problem behavior. Items are organized into four functional categories based on
contingencies that maintain problem behavior.
One possibility may lie in the deepening of the phenomenological approach to autism as
an attempt to model the subjective phenomena of autistic subjects and thus operationalize
elements that serve the diagnostic process.
, a psychodynamic epistemology could help clinicians to go beyond the consideration of
observable behaviors and scores, introducing a psychoanalytic point of view that
interfaces objective behaviors with the individual's emotional intrapsychic functioning.
The Functional Analysis Screening Tool (FAST) is a 16-item questionnaire about antecedent and
consequent events that might be correlated with the occurrence of problem behavior. Items are
organized into four functional categories based on contingencies that maintain problem behavior.
Incidence
National Outcome Measure 17.3: Percent of children, ages 3 through 17, are diagnosed
with an autism spectrum disorder
Children, ages 3 through 17, reported by their parents to have been diagnosed by a health
care provider with ASD and to currently have the condition
In 2017, this measure did not change from the 2016 NSCH.
Due to previous changes in the administration and sampling for the NSCH, survey results
before 2016 are not directly comparable and should not be used to conduct trend
analyses.
Survey: 2016-2017 National Survey of Children's Health
Starting Point: Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant Measures
State/Region: Nationwide
Topic: National Outcome Measures
Question: NOM 17.3: Autism/ASD, age 3-17 years
Week 8 Assignment
Create a study guide for your assigned disorder. Your study guide should be in the form of
an outline with references. You should incorporate visual elements such as concept maps,
charts, diagrams, images, color coding, mnemonics, and flashcards. Be creative! It should
not be in the format of an APA paper. Your guide should be informed by the DSM-5-TR and
supported by at least three other scholarly resources.
Areas of importance you should address, but are not limited to, are:
Definition:
Autism is a developmental disorder that leaves an individual with difficulty with social
interactions in the community, resulting in isolation.
It is referred to as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and encompasses previously defined
different yet similar conditions like Asperger syndrome.
The disorder is along a spectrum of communication and interaction deficits and restrictive
or repetitive behavior.
Described as a neurodevelopment disorder involving language, communication, and
social behaviors deficits.
ASD includes three disorders that used to be diagnosed separately, namely, autistic
disorder, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), and
Asperger syndrome.
Signs and symptoms according to the DSM-5-TR
, Before 2013, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for mental disorders, the fourth
edition of the DSM 4, Described autism as one of several pervasive developmental
disorders, including Asperger's syndrome.
The affected individual does not respond to names at 12 months and avoids eye contact.
He does not share interests with others and prefers to play alone.
Only interacts to achieve the desired goal and has flat or inappropriate facial expressions
Does not understand personal space boundaries and avoids or resists physical contact
He is not comforted by others during distress and has trouble understanding other
people's feelings or talking about his feelings.
Differential diagnoses:
. The problematics of differential diagnosis remain critical for clinical approaches to
autism.
Formalizations of the diagnostic procedures must remain open-minded and accompanied
by a creative clinical approach, especially in the case of complex situations that are not
soluble utilizing conventional diagnostic tools.
The Functional Analysis Screening Tool (FAST) is a 16-item questionnaire about
antecedent and consequent events that might be correlated with the occurrence of
problem behavior. Items are organized into four functional categories based on
contingencies that maintain problem behavior.
One possibility may lie in the deepening of the phenomenological approach to autism as
an attempt to model the subjective phenomena of autistic subjects and thus operationalize
elements that serve the diagnostic process.
, a psychodynamic epistemology could help clinicians to go beyond the consideration of
observable behaviors and scores, introducing a psychoanalytic point of view that
interfaces objective behaviors with the individual's emotional intrapsychic functioning.
The Functional Analysis Screening Tool (FAST) is a 16-item questionnaire about antecedent and
consequent events that might be correlated with the occurrence of problem behavior. Items are
organized into four functional categories based on contingencies that maintain problem behavior.
Incidence
National Outcome Measure 17.3: Percent of children, ages 3 through 17, are diagnosed
with an autism spectrum disorder
Children, ages 3 through 17, reported by their parents to have been diagnosed by a health
care provider with ASD and to currently have the condition
In 2017, this measure did not change from the 2016 NSCH.
Due to previous changes in the administration and sampling for the NSCH, survey results
before 2016 are not directly comparable and should not be used to conduct trend
analyses.
Survey: 2016-2017 National Survey of Children's Health
Starting Point: Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant Measures
State/Region: Nationwide
Topic: National Outcome Measures
Question: NOM 17.3: Autism/ASD, age 3-17 years
