The document discusses changes in diagnoses of common childhood disorders in the DSM-5. It notes that the DSM-IV grouped several disorders together, but the DSM-5 eliminates this approach. Specific changes include intellectual disability replacing mental retardation, social communication disorder being added to autism spectrum disorder, autism spectrum disorder encompassing four previously separate diagnoses, modifications to ADHD criteria and subtypes, and alterations to conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and other diagnoses.

1. Disorders commonly diagnosed in Childhood

2.  Information updated May 17, 2013, from
http://www.psych.org/practice/dsm/dsm5
 DSM-IV classified disorders commonly
diagnosed in childhood together
◦ Mental Retardation
◦ Learning Disorders
◦ Autism and related disorders
◦ ADHD
◦ Conduct Disorder
◦ Oppositional Defiant Disorder
 DSM-5 eliminates this approach to grouping!

3.  Intellectual Disability/Intellectual
Developmental Disorder
◦ Formerly Mental Retardation
 Communication Disorders
◦ New: social communication disorder (like autism,
without the repetitive/restricted behaviors)

4.  Autism Spectrum Disorder
◦ Places four formerly separate diagnoses on a single
continuum
◦ No more: Autistic Disorder, Asperger’s, Childhood
Disintegrative Disorder, Pervasive Developmental
Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
◦ Two major criteria for diagnosis:
 Deficits in social communication and social interaction
 Restricted repetitive behaviors, interests, and activities

5.  Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
◦ Same symptom criteria
◦ Subtypes eliminated
 Instead, list “presentation specifiers”, pretty much the
same as old subtypes
◦ Lower cutoff of symptoms for adults (5 instead of 6)
◦ Some evidence of symptoms before age 12

6.  Conduct Disorder
◦ Specifier for “limited prosocial emotions”
 Oppositional Defiant Disorder
◦ Grouped symptoms into angry/irritable
mood, argumentative/defiant
behavior, vindictiveness
◦ Severity rating, across settings
 Intermittent Explosive Disorder
◦ Minimum age 6
 Pyromania, Kleptomania
 Antisocial Personality Disorder (dual listing)