Exam 16: Childhood and Adolescent Psychological Problems

In childhood disorders prevalence rates suggest that boys are more likely to have a disorder than girls,but that the prevalent disorder in boys is conduct disorders and in girls anxiety disorders.What percentage of 3-year-olds exhibit more mild difficulties (Richman,Stevenson & Graham,1982)?

In ADHD hyperactivity may manifest itself in which of the following ways?

DSM-5 estimates that around what percentage of school age children worldwide are diagnosed with ADHD?

Adult AHDH has a number of impairing consequences,including:

Adolescent height phobia has been shown to be a risk factor for what adult disorder?

Clinicians have tended to organise childhood psychological problems into two broad domains based on the general behavioural characteristics of the child.One domain covers externalising disorders which are based on outward-directed behaviour problems such as which of the following?

According to Liu & Raine (2006),recent studies also suggest that externalising behaviours are associated with prenatal malnutrition,especially deficits in:

Children with ADHD are known to have certain cerebral deficits and specifically have difficulty:

According to Lahey,Loeber,Burke & Applegate (2005),studies suggest that childhood conduct disorder (but not childhood ADHD)predicts antisocial personality disorder in adulthood,but only in:

In ADHD the most common form of stimulant medication is known as:

In childhood disorders there are different types of problems such as Symptom-Based Disorders.One such disorder is known as enuresis.Which if the following is the correct definition of enuresis?

According to King,Muris,Ollendick & Gullone (2005),which type of behaviour techniques have been successfully adapted to treat anxiety-based problems in children?

Executive functioning is that range of skills that require:

A related category of disruptive behaviour disorders in DSM-5 is known as Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD).ODD is a diagnosis usually reserved for those children who do not meet the full criteria for conduct disorder,but who have:

According to Lichtenstein & Annas (2000),the prevalence for specific phobias in 8-9 year-olds is estimated to be around what percentage for girls?

Dodge (1991,1993)has proposed a social-information processing model of antisocial and aggressive behaviour in which a history of which of the following is involved?

A diagnosis of conduct disorder may be appropriate when which of the following characteristic are present?

According to Schonfeld,Mattson & Riley (2005)delinquent behaviour and poor moral judgement in conduct disorder has been found to be higher in children prenatally exposed to:

Another area of the brain that regularly exhibits abnormalities in association with ADHD symptoms is the:

The view that childhood problems result from inappropriate family structure and organisation is integrated in which of the following?