After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Identify the symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), describe how it affects a child’s social and intellectual functioning, and discuss how it affects children as they enter adolescence and adulthood.
2. Discuss the genetic and neurological contributors to ADHD, and the other psychopathological conditions associated with ADHD.
3. Describe the drug therapies and psychosocial therapies for ADHD.
4. Discuss the similarities and differences between conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and ADHD.
5. Discuss the symptoms and course of conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder.
6. Describe the biological and psychosocial contributors to conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder.
7. Describe the drug therapies and psychotherapies used to treat conduct and oppositional defiant disorder.
8. Identify the symptoms of separation anxiety disorder and how separation anxiety is related to panic disorder.
9. Discuss the genetic factors and parenting practices that may lead to separation anxiety disorder.
10. Discuss ways to treat separation anxiety disorder.
11. Identify the diagnostic criteria for enuresis and encopresis, the genetic, psychodynamic, and behavioral theories of enuresis, and the most effective treatment for enuresis.
12. Identify the types of developmental disorders that affect only specific skills.
13. Discuss what is required for a diagnosis of mental retardation, the difference between organic and cultural-familial mental retardation, and how the symptoms of the disorder vary in severity from mild to moderate to severe to profound.
14. Discuss and distinguish among the numerous diseases, maternal behaviors, and aspects of pregnancy and birth that can lead to mental retardation.
15. Discuss the social factors that may contribute to mental retardation.
16. Discuss some of the effective interventions for mental retardation.
17. Describe the deficits exhibited by autistic children.
18. Discuss the genetic and biological causes of autism.
19. Discuss the drugs used to treat the symptoms of autism, and the behavioral methods used to treat autistic children.