Developmental and childhood disorders
Chapter 9
Developmental and childhood disorders
3 topics
- 23Intellectual disability: severity levels, epidemiology, etiology, clinical features, course, and principles of treatment and careSignificant limits in intellectual functioning and in everyday adaptive skills that begin during development. How ICD-10 grades it by IQ and ICD-11 by adaptive behaviour, its genetic and acquired causes and how they are found, the physical and mental illness that comes with it, and the principles of care, from health checks and reasonable adjustments to capacity, consent and avoiding overmedication.
- 24Pervasive developmental disorders: childhood autism, Asperger syndrome, and Rett syndrome. Epidemiology, etiology, clinical features, course, and treatmentICD-10's pervasive developmental disorders, childhood autism, Asperger syndrome and Rett syndrome, and how ICD-11 and DSM-5 have folded autism and Asperger syndrome into one autism spectrum disorder and moved Rett syndrome out as a genetic neurological disorder. The features, the red flags and the assessment, what causes autism and what does not, and the support, education and few drugs that help.
- 25Hyperkinetic disorders in childhood: epidemiology, etiology, clinical features, course, and treatmentICD-10's hyperkinetic disorders, the narrower forerunner of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in DSM-5 and ICD-11, with its core of inattention, overactivity and impulsivity from early childhood in more than one setting. How it arises, how it is assessed, how parent training, school support and medication are used by age, how the drugs are monitored, and how often it persists into adult life.