DSM 5 Study Guide Pocket Guide – Flashcards

Did you have any behavioral or learning problems during your early childhood? When you started school, did you have trouble relating socially or keeping up academically with your classmates because of behavioral or learning problems?

Do you have trouble concentrating or struggle with being impulsive or hyperactive? Do you have difficulty communicating with other people or in social interactions? Are there specific bothersome behaviors that you do frequently and find hard to control? Do you struggle to learn, more than your classmates do?

Requires intellectual deficits, beginning during the developmental period, that impair adaptive function as manifested by: deficits in intellectual functions (reasoning, problem solving, planning, abstract thinking, judgement, academic learning, and experiential learning)

Impaired adaptive functioning, normalized for developmental and sociocultural standards, which restricts participation and performance in one or more aspects of daily life activities. Limitations result in ongoing support at school, work, on daily life.

Unspecified intellectual disability Language disorder Speech Sound disorder Childhood onset fluency disorder Social communication disorder Unspecified communication disorder

Person's subjective report of an abnormality

Objective findings of an abnormality

Disturbance in physical or psychological functioning

Syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individuals cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning.