Exam 13: Abnormal Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence

The urine alarm method approach was introduced by psychologist ______.

The DSM-5 no longer uses the term _________to describe a learning disorder characterized by impaired reading ability.

Institutional placement is often based on ______.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy has generally been shown to help disruptive children change their behavior.

A genetic abnormality transmitted by a recessive gene that prevents an infant from metabolizing an amino acid found in many foods, resulting in intellectual developmental disorder and emotional disturbance, is ______.

In 2013, researchers estimated that __________ percent of children in the United States have an autism spectrum disorder.

Soiling, like enuresis, is most likely to happen during the night while a child is sleeping.

______ is a program that has helped children at risk for cultural-familial retardation to function within the normal range of ability.

According to psychoanalytic theorists, childhood anxieties are the result of ______.

Play therapy, in which a child enacts family conflicts through play activities, such as play-acting with dolls or puppets, was developed by ______.

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder occurs in about ______ percent of children and adolescents.

What is Separation Anxiety Disorder? At what age is it most typical? How is it treated?

Depression is common among children and adolescents.

Aggressive children assume that others intend them ill when they do not.

The most common type of enuresis is ______.

Discuss ways of determining what is normal and abnormal in childhood and adolescence.

Fetuses and newborn infants eliminate waste products ______.

Research on the brain functioning in dyslexic children suggested that after just _____ hours of intensive remedial instruction, multiple brain regions show an increase in neural activity to the point where they are similar to control children.

Enuresis usually resolves itself.

Autistic children are not bound by ritual and resist parents attempting to provide preservation of sameness.