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Direct linkKrstic, Tatjana; Batic, Sanja; Mihic, Ljiljana; Milankov, Vesela – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2016
The resolution of diagnosis of one's child involves coming to terms with the child's medical condition and accepting it both emotionally and cognitively. This study examined the relation between maternal resolution of the child's diagnosis of cerebral palsy (CP) and their educational levels. We also aimed at understanding maternal resolution…
Descriptors: Mothers, Emotional Response, Parent Attitudes, Clinical Diagnosis
Schmidt, Norman B.; Norr, Aaron M.; Korte, Kristina J. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2014
With the upcoming release of the fifth edition of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM-V) there has been a necessary critique of the DSM-IV including questions regarding how to best improve the next iteration of the DSM classification system. The aim of this article is to provide commentary on the probable…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Guides, Mental Disorders, Clinical Diagnosis
Sanches-Ferreira, Manuela; Simeonsson, Rune J.; Silveira-Maia, Mónica; Alves, Sílvia – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2015
This paper reports the results of a national two-year project, commissioned by the Portuguese Ministry of Education, to investigate the implementation of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) under Decree-Law 3/2008. The Decree-Law also introduced the principle that the documentation of students' functioning…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Legislation, Laws, Eligibility
Wong, Stephen E. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2014
This article examines problems in the clinical utility of the diagnosis of schizophrenia including reliance on questionable data, arbitrary criteria and categorization, inadequate precision for assessment and treatment evaluation, and omission of information on causal current and historical environmental factors. Some alternatives to the…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Clinical Diagnosis, Mental Disorders
Richards, Jai T. – Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2013
The inclusion of the diagnosis of gender identity disorder (GID) within the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" ("DSM") is a contentious issue. A summary of the arguments for retention, removal, or reform of the diagnosis in the "DSM-5" is presented. A qualitative study with 7 individuals from…
Descriptors: Identification, Mental Disorders, Sexual Identity, Foreign Countries
Perez-Robles, Ruth; Doval, Eduardo; Jane, Ma Claustre; da Silva, Pedro Caldeira; Papoila, Ana Luisa; Virella, Daniel – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2013
To contribute to the validation of the sensory and behavioral criteria for Regulation Disorders of Sensory Processing (RDSP) (DC:0-3R, 2005), this study examined a sample of toddlers in a clinical setting to analyze: (1) the severity of sensory modulation deficits and the behavioral symptoms of RDSP; (2) the associations between sensory and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Perceptual Impairments, Child Behavior, Severity (of Disability)
Timpano, Kiara R.; Broman-Fulks, Joshua J.; Glaesmer, Heide; Exner, Cornelia; Rief, Winfried; Olatunji, Bunmi O.; Keough, Meghan E.; Riccardi, Christina J.; Brahler, Elmar; Wilhelm, Sabine; Schmidt, Norman B. – Psychological Assessment, 2013
Despite controversy regarding the classification and diagnostic status of hoarding disorder, there remains a paucity of research on the nosology of hoarding that is likely to inform the classification debate. The present investigation examined the latent structure of hoarding in three, large independent samples. Data for three well-validated…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Classification, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Undergraduate Students
Rudolph, Johanna M.; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2016
Delayed appearance of early language milestones can be one of the first signs of a developmental disorder. In this study, we investigated how well late acquisition of language milestones predicted an outcome of specific language impairment (SLI). The sample included 150 children (76 SLI), aged 4 to 7 years old. Milestone information was collected…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Accuracy, Developmental Delays
Reszka, Stephanie S.; Boyd, Brian A.; McBee, Matthew; Hume, Kara A.; Odom, Samuel L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
The autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnostic classifications, according to the DSM-5, include a severity rating. Several screening and/or diagnostic measures, such as the autism diagnostic and observation schedule (ADOS), Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) and social responsiveness scale (SRS) (teacher and parent versions), include an…
Descriptors: Autism, Clinical Diagnosis, Severity (of Disability), Behavior Rating Scales
Plastina, Anna Franca – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
The need to teach medical students plain language for their future engagement in pain communication can no longer be underestimated. Pain education has traditionally neglected the teaching of pain language, yet patients' descriptive accounts have been acknowledged as the standard in medical care. English for Medical Purposes (EMP) can make its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Pathology
Koidou, Irene; Kollias, Nikolaos; Sdravou, Katerina; Grouios, George – Educational Gerontology, 2013
Dysphagia is the clinical expression of disruption of the synchronized activity surrounding the normal swallowing mechanism. It results from a large number of causes including neurologic, myopathic, metabolic, inflammatory/autoimmune, infectious, structural, iatrogenic, and psychiatric diseases. It can have a significant impact on social and…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Literature Reviews, Incidence, Classification
Brock, Stephen E.; Hart, Shelley R. – Communique, 2013
The much anticipated fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's (APA, 2013) "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM-5) was released this past May at APA's annual convention in San Francisco and with it came a storm of controversy. In this article, the authors examine changes made to specific diagnostic…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Mental Disorders, Classification, Criticism
Garland, Eric L.; Howard, Matthew O. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2014
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and International Classification of Diseases classify mental health disorders on the basis of their putatively distinct symptom profiles. Although these nosologies are highly influential, they also have been derided as mere "field guides" because they focus solely on the…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Classification, Social Work, Caseworkers
Aljunied, Mariam; Frederickson, Norah – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2014
Despite embracing a bio-psycho-social perspective, the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) assessment framework has had limited application to date with children who have special educational needs (SEN). This study examines its utility for educational psychologists' work with…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Special Needs Students
Download full textvon Davier, Matthias – Educational Testing Service, 2011
This report shows that the deterministic-input noisy-AND (DINA) model is a special case of more general compensatory diagnostic models by means of a reparameterization of the skill space and the design (Q-) matrix of item by skills associations. This reparameterization produces a compensatory model that is equivalent to the (conjunctive) DINA…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Classification, Models, Matrices
