Shaw and Doris Pdez educate social workers on this relatively new disorder called Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). RAD is a complex psychiatric disorder that begins in infancy or very early childhood. ... There are no laboratory tests for many psychiatric disorders. ... By the time children with RAD reach adolescence, many have accumulated comorbid disorders such as ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), and/or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Kemph, & Voeller, 2009). Other diagnoses could be learning disabilities, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and/or depressive disorders ...

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The numbers are added and the result is an index of the amount of change related stress the person has recently experienced * Pressure involves expectations or demands that one behave in a certain way * Pressure is strongly related to measures of mental health * 3 reactions to stress: 1.Emotional responses- as stress increases, mood becomes more negative * the inverted U hypothesis predicts that task performance should improve with increased emotional arousal * as a task becomes more complex the optimal level of arousal decreases 2.Physiological responses- the fight or flight response i...

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