Describe the two main differences between Acute Stress Disorder and PTSD. The two main differences between Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are diagnostic criteria and symptoms and duration and onset of symptoms. Regarding diagnostic criteria and symptoms, the DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) states that PTSD requires meeting a certain number of symptoms within established clusters, whereas ASD is diagnosed based on the expression of symptoms in total. Furthermore, PTSD includes non-fear based symptoms such as risky behavior, negative thoughts, and decreased interest in activities, which are not included in the criteria for ASD (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2007).
At first, when parents become aware that their child is Autistic, there is a sense of grieving felt because of the unexpected change. A parent’s natural expectation to raise a so-called “normal” child is immediately transformed. Following up with the diagnosis, there are medical tests, and therapy sessions, and at-home adjustments that become prevalent in the parents’ every day lives. Parents’ commonly feel defeated during their child’s adolescent period, as it requires years of ongoing commitment to care for their Autistic child.
Question 2 2.1 Describe ways in which having a child with a complex disability or condition can impact on different aspects of families lives. To live with disable child can have deep impact on overall family members. It turns out to be an exclusive shared experience for the families and this may impact on the overall family functioning. While considering the positive impact, this widens the horizons, raising more awareness among family members considering their
Conditions did start to get better for a disabled child but was still not the best since there was no law stating that it was required to give the mentally retarded a good education or even life. The American Association on Mental Deficiency also saw an importance of not just throwing anyone with a disability into a mental hospital, if a person had symptoms like Down Syndrome, which the name was not created yet, they had no need to go into an institution. AAMD wanted education for the mentally retarded and believed that any of these people deserved rights. AAMD was a huge spark that started law 94-142 but was not the only one. (Anderson, 68)
Recently there was a shooting in the U.S., the person who committed the crime lost both parents and, at an early age, was diagnosed with autism. Although it is not an excuse, it cannot be overlooked. At a young age it is best to find help for children with
These residents with ASD usually prepare their own meals, go to work, and conduct other daily activities on their own. (Turkington & Anan, 2007) The statistic only go to show that the need for more extensive research on the growing population of adults with ASD that are entering into the community are not doing so independently, and the need for extended home-based services are still vital and important as the individual ages. The difficultly is that the services that were once in abundance are now sparse to the adult and
This petition is for an autistic sixth grader. Let me pause. An autistic sixth grader!!!!!! The story goes as follows, an autistic sixth grader was spotted by a school resource officer kicking a trash can in frustration. And so filed him under a disorderly conduct charge in juvenile court.
In these assessments, the independent variables were the existence, or non-existence, of an ASD, while the dependent variables were the measurements of social competence, self-perception, the quality of life, and problem behaviors. In these studies, the females that participated were between the ages of 14-19, both with and without ASD. They collected data from 6 different groups of girls over a 4-year time frame. The girls in these studies lived either in a large Midwestern city, or in the suburbs surrounding the city. Each group of girls had certain standards they had to
A child with ASD does not understand the concept of sharing or taking turns. They can become very upset or even violent if another child takes a toy from them. Children with ASD rarely show excitement. Children with ASD get upset easily when taken in a public setting such as a grocery store or restaurant. They do not like having any attention directed toward them.
The word Autism, is a big topic of discussion. It is a developing story, that many are learning by time and people are now using new ways to diagnose it. With new criteria for diagnosis coming out, and with the most recent being the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), psychiatrists and psychologists are now using this manual to evaluate individuals. With much controversy occurring, because of the arrival of the new DSM-5, many are inputting their opinion, on how this may affect the way people may receive help and services they were once either, excluded or included from. These people being excluded or included from the services are mainly described demographically more male than female, and within
