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Vrije Universiteit Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology Lecture 4
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- History / epidemiology- Symptoms / assessment
- Treatment
- Etiology / Theories
- VU Research
Pioneers
Leo Kanner (1943)
- Autism
Hans Asperger (1944)
- Asperger’s Syndrome
- Always having a normal intelligence (not by autism)
Term ‘autism’ used by by Bleuler (1911) to describe schizophrenic patients
Autism Spectrum Disorder DSM-5
, Spectrum = it goes from a low level of symptoms to a high level of symptoms (a lot of
variety)
a. Deficits in social communication and social interaction, including:
- Social emotional reciprocity
- Nonverbal communication
- Relationships
b. Restricted, repetitive behavior and interests (>2):
- Stereotypic or repetitive behavior
- Insistence on sameness
- High restricted, fixated interest
- Hyper- or hypo responsiveness
New in DSM-5
→ Became a spectrum
● Sensory problems
- Hyper- or hypo sensitivity
● Severity levels
- Level 1-requiring support
- Level 2-requiring substantial support
- Level 3-requiring very substantial support
● PDDNOS(was a mild form of autism)/Asperger → both part of autism
spectrum disorder
● Symptoms must be present in early development but my not fully manifest until later/
masked
Autism
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder (term that was used in the older literature)
- Pervasive =affecting all your levels of functioning
- Prevalence 1-1,5%, there was an increase → much more known, criteria
widely a bit
- High Diversity
- Spectrum = individual differences
- Around 80% male (Female Camouflaging?)
- Around 70% normal intelligence
- Around 30% regression (loss of skills)
Females with Autism (FwA)
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