Medications That Are Prescribed to Manage Certain Behaviours in Children

question 108

Multiple Choice

Medications that are prescribed to manage certain behaviours in children with autism spectrum disorder include

• A) typical antipsychotics, depressants, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
• B) mood stabilizers, atypical antipsychotics, and stimulants.
• C) benzodiazepines, anxiolytics, and antidepressants.
• D) stimulants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and atypical antipsychotics.

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Definitions:

Unconscious Conflicts

Internal struggles arising from unresolved, often repressed, desires or impulses that can lead to mental disturbances or disorders according to psychoanalytic theories.

Psychoanalysis

Freud’s therapeutic technique for analyzing an individual’s unconscious thoughts.

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic approach and theory of psychological disorders founded by Sigmund Freud, emphasizing unconscious processes and unresolved past conflicts.

Free Association

A psychoanalytic technique that involves encouraging individuals to say aloud whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.