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Identify the disorder below and bullet point the symptoms that made you come to the diagnosis. There is only one answer. John is a 26-year-old man who received special education for most of his schooling. He is currently employed as a night janitor at a brewery. John has worked there for about eight years, having begun on a part-time basis while he was still in high school. He is married and has one child. John began receiving special education while he was in the second grade. During that school year, he was referred for psychological evaluation because he was experiencing severe difficulties in all academic areas. John was administered the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R) on which he attained a full-scale IQ score of 68. The report of that evaluation described him as socially immature, but otherwise well-adjusted emotionally. He was subsequently placed in the program for students with educable mental retardation (EMR). Throughout the remainder of elementary school, John spent about half the school day in the special education classroom and the remainder of the day in the regular classroom. While in high school, John enrolled in some regular classes, but continued to receive tutoring and some course work in the special education program. During his last two years, he was in a work-study program and spent half of the day at his job. His intellectual and academic skills have been reevaluated several times with his IQ scores being slightly higher on each subsequent assessment. When he was last evaluated at age 17, John attained a full-scale IQ score of 73. At that time, John’s reading and spelling scores were at the 4th-grade level, and his math skills were like those of a 5th-grader. The report of that assessment described him as an average appearing and likeable young man. John is the youngest of four children. Neither of his parents finished high school, and his father worked as an unskilled laborer before he retired.  Two of John’s siblings were also enrolled in special education programs.

Identify the disorder below and bullet point the symptoms that made you come to the diagnosis. There is only one answer. Richie was a 15-year-old boy referred for evaluation after multiple run-ins with the police for drug possession, fighting, and shoplifting. Richie was the oldest of three boys and looked up to a gang-involved cousin who was in prison for drug trafficking. The patient was enrolled in multisystemic therapy (MST) for both treatment and further evaluation. Richie’s MST therapist met with his family 3 to 4 times per week over the first three months of treatment. The therapist encouraged the family to increase their level of supervision over their boys, prevent Richie from smoking marijuana at home, and limit his access to problematic peers. Over the course of treatment, Richie’s parents established regular communication with teachers and helped him get involved with a local boxing team after school. Richie’s therapist reduced the frequency of visits over the final two months of treatment. At the conclusion of treatment, Richie was meeting curfew consistently, completing school assignments, and no longer testing positive for marijuana. Richie’s younger siblings also began doing their schoolwork more consistently and behaving better on the playground.

Individuals with autism tend to have a ____ corpus callosum and fewer ____ cells, which relate to behavioral inhibition.

Youths who may be aggressive toward other people or animals, often displaying cruel behaviors such as using a weapon or torturing someone, assaulting and stealing from someone, or engaging in rape; destroying property, such as setting fires and vandalizing; lying to others to get something or to avoid punishment or stealing; and violating laws or rules for their age group, such as failing to attend school, adhering to curfew, or running away from home would be most likely to be diagnosed with

Which among the following does the text (and lecture) suggest managers consider when discerning whether to assign individuals or a team to complete a task? Check all that apply for each multiple answers question in this test.

Impaired ability to use or comprehend spoken language, as when a person has difficulty speaking or cannot understand what is being said to him, is called

Faith integration: Which of the below do Rick Warren suggest are God’s purposes in our problems, stress, and strain?

Jimmy has poor school achievement in reading. He is failing his reading class, but this failure is not explained by intellectual disability. Jimmy may have a

Blake has a hard time with any kind of fine motor coordination. Even though he is seven years old, he can barely button a shirt, he cannot tie his own shoes, and he struggles to grasp a pencil appropriately. Blake has which learning disorder?

Which of the following are “effects” that employees and managers are wisely mindful of regarding remote work, off hours use of email, and smartphones?