List special features of childhood disorders that make them different from adult disorders, and describe how young children are especially vulnerable to develop psychological problems.
Discuss general issues in the classification of childhood and adolescent disorders.
Describe the clinical features, list several of the multiple causes, and summarize approaches to treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Describe the clinical features, causal factors, and treatment of conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder.
Describe the clinical features, causal factors, and treatment of the anxiety disorders of childhood.
Describe the clinical features, causal factors, and treatment of childhood depression.
Summarize what is known about the symptom disorders of functional enuresis, functional encopresis, sleepwalking, and tics as they occur in children and adolescents.
Describe the clinical features, causal factors, and treatment of autism.
Review treatments approaches, outcomes and prevention with regard to mental retardation.
Describe the clinical features, causal factors, and treatment of learning disorders.
Explain the four levels of mental retardation and describe the functioning associated with each level.
Discuss the types of brain defects associated with mental retardation.
List and explain mental retardation stemming from biological causes, especially Down syndrome, PKU, and cranial anomalies.
List and explain six special factors that must be considered in relation to treatment for children.
Outline the findings regarding the prevalence of child abuse, list the deficits seen among abused children, discuss potential causal factors in child abuse, and summarize efforts to prevent child abuse.
Describe the need for mental health services for children, and review the difficulties with recent efforts to increase the available resources.
Discuss delinquency as a major societal problem, summarize the many causal factors involved in delinquency, and describe different ways that society deals with delinquency.
