Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology pp 371–383Cite as

Taxonomy of Major Disorders in Childhood

  • Chapter

Abstract

Pervasive developmental disorders, or major disorders in childhood, used to be classified as childhood psychoses. The term psychosis has no precise meaning but was used to describe severe conditions in which the child had a severely impaired sense of reality with little insight into his or her own behavior. That behavior is frequently different from normal behavior.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Asperger, H. (1944). Die autistischen Psychopathen im Kindesalter. Archiv für Psychiatrie Nervenkrankheiten, 117, 76–136.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • August, G., Stewart, M., & Tsai, L. (1981). The incidence of cognitive disabilities in the siblings of autistic children. British Journal of Psychiatry, 138, 416–422.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bartak, L., Rutter, M., & Cox, A. (1975). A comparative study of infantile autism and specific developmental receptive language disorder. I: The children. British Journal of Psychiatry, 126, 127–145.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bettelheim, B. (1967). The empty fortress: Infantile autism and the birth of the self.New York: Free Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bishop, D. (1979). Comprehension in developmental language disorders. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 21, 225–238.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bishop, D., & Rosenbloom, L. (1987). Classification of childhood disorders. In W. Yule & M. Rutter (Eds.), Language development and disorders (pp. 16–41). London and Oxford: McKeith Press/Blackwell.

    Google Scholar 

  • Blomquist, H., Bohman, M., Edvinsson, S., Gillberg, C., Gustavson, K-H., Holmgren, G., & Wahlstrom, J. (1985). Frequency of the fragile-X syndrome in infantile autism. A Swedish Multi-Center study. Clinical Genetics, 27, 113–117.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Boatman, M., & Szurek, S. (1960). A clinical study of childhood schizophrenia. New York: Basic Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Brask, B. (1967). The need for hospital beds for psychotic children: An analysis based on a prevalence investigation in the county of Arthus. Ugeskrift for Laeger, 129, 1539–1570.

    Google Scholar 

  • Brown, W. T., Jenkins, E. C., Friedman, E., Brooks, J., Wisniewski, K., Raguthu, S., & French, J. (1982) Autism is associated with the fragile-X syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 12, 303–308.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Campbell, M. (1978). Pharmacotherapy. In M. Rutter & E. Schopler (Eds.), Autism: Reappraisal of concepts and treatment (pp. 337–356). New York: Plenum Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cantwell, D., Rutter, M., & Baker, L. (1978). Family factors. In M. Rutter & E. Schopler (Eds.), Autism: Reappraisal of concepts and treatment (pp. 269–296). New York: Plenum Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cantwell, D., Baker, L., Rutter, M., & Mawhood, L. (1989). Infantile autism and developmental receptive dysphasia: A comparative follow-up into middle childhood. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 19, 19–32.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Chick, J., Waterhouse, L., & Wolff, S. (1979). Psychological construing in schizoid children grown up. British Journal of Psychiatry, 135, 435–440.

    Google Scholar 

  • Clark, P., & Rutter, M. (1977). Compliance and resistance in autistic children. Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, 7, 33–48.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Cohen, D., Paul, R., & Volkmar, F. (1986). Issues in the classification of pervasive and other developmental disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 25, 213–220.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Creak, E. M. (Chairman). (1961). Schizophrenic syndrome in childhood: Progress report of a working party (April, 1961). Cerebral Palsy Bulletin, 3, 501–504.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cromer, R. (1981). Reconceptualizing language acquisition and cognitive development. In R. Schiefelbusch & D. Bricker (Eds.), Early language acquisition and invervention (pp. 51–138). Baltimore: University Park Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deykin, E., & MacMahon, B. (1979). The incidence of seizures among children with autistic symptoms. American Journal of Psychiatry, 136, 1310–1312.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Eisenson, J. (1968). Developmental aphasia (dyslogia). A postulation of a unitary concept of the disorder. Cortex, 4, 184–191.

    Google Scholar 

  • Folstein, S., & Rutter, M. (1977). Infantile autism: A genetic study of 21 twin pairs. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 13, 297–321.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Frith, U. (1971). Spontaneous patterns produced by autistic, normal and subnormal children. In M. Rutter (Ed.), Infantile autism: Concepts, characteristics and treatment (pp. 120–135). London: Churchill Livingstone.

    Google Scholar 

  • Frith, U. (1972). Cognitive mechanisms in autism: Experiments with colour and tone sequence production. Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, 2, 160–173.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Gillberg, C., & Schaumann, H. (1982). Social Class and autism: Total population aspects. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 12, 223–228.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Graham, N. C. (1970). The language of educationally subnormal children. Final report, School of Education, University of Birmingham, England.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hegberg, B., Aicurdi, J., Dias, K., & Ramos, O. (1983). A progressive syndrome of autism, dementia, ataxia, and loss of purposeful hand use in girls: Rett’s syndrome: Report of 35 cases. Annals of Neurology, 14, 471–479.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Heller, T. (1930). Dementia infantilis. Reprinted (1969) in J. Howells (Ed.), Modern perspectives in international child psychiatry (pp. 610–616). Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hermelin, B. (1976). Coding and the sense modalities. In L. Wing (Ed.), Early childhood autism (2nd ed., pp. 135–168). Oxford: Pergamon.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hermelin, B., & Frith, U. (1971). Psychological studies of childhood autism. Can autistic children make sense of what they see and hear? Journal of Special Education, 5, 1107–1117.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Howlin, P. (1987, April). Asperger’s syndrome. Paper presented at the First International Symposium in Specific Speech and Language Disorders in Children, Reading, England.

    Google Scholar 

  • Howlin, P., & Rutter, M. (1987). With Berger, M., Hemsley, P., Hersov, L., & Yule, W. Treatment of autistic children. Chichester, England: Wiley.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kahmi, A., Catts, H., Koenig, L., &Lewis, B. (1984). Hypothesis testing and nonlinguistic symbolic abilities in language-impaired children. Journal of Speech and H earing Disorders, 49, 169–176.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kanner, L. (1943). Autistic disturbances of affective contact. Nervous Child, 2, 217–250.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kanner, L. (1954). To what extent is early infantile autism determined by constitutional inadequacies? Reprinted in Kanner, L. (1973), Childhood psychosis: Initial studies and new insights (pp. 69–76). Washington, DC: Winston.

    Google Scholar 

  • Landau, W., & Kleffner, F. (1957). Syndrome of acquired aphasia with convulsive disorders in children. Neurology, 7, 523–530.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Levitas, A., Hagerman, R. J., Braden, M., Rimland, B., McBogg, P., & Matus, I. (1983). Autism and the fragile-X syndrome. Journal of Developmental Behavioural Pediatrics, 4, 151–158.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lewis, S., & Mezey, G. (1985). Clinical correlates of septum pellucidum cavities: An unusual association with psychosis. Psychological Medicine, 15, 43–54.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lord, C., Schopler, E., & Revick, D. (1982). Sex differences in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 12, 317–330.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lotter, V. (1978). Follow-up studies. In M. Rutter & E. Schopler (Eds.), Autism: A reappraisal of concepts and treatment (pp. 475–495). New York: Plenum Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Massie, H. (1978). Blind ratings of mother and infant interaction in home movies of pre-psychotic and normal infants. American Journal of Psychiatry, 135, 1371–1374.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Minton, J., Cambell, M., Green, W., Jennings, S., & Samit, C. (1982). Cognitive assessment of siblings of autistic children. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 21, 256–261.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Mishler, E., & Waxier, N. (1963). Family interaction processes and schizophrenia: A review of current theories. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 11, 269–316.

    Google Scholar 

  • O’Gorman, G. (1970). The nature of childhood autism (2nd ed.). London: Butterworths.

    Google Scholar 

  • Paul, R., Cohen, D., & Caparulo, B. (1983). A longitudinal study of patients with severe developmental disorders of language learning. Journal of American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 22, 525–534.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Poppen, R., Stack, J., Eisenson, J., Forrest, T., & Wertheim, G. (1969). Visual sequencing performance of aphasic children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 12, 233–300.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rimland, B. (1968). On the objective diagnosis of infantile autism. Acta Paedopsychiatrica, 35, 146–161.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rosenthal, J., Massie, H., & Wulff, K. (1980). A comparison of cognitive development in normal and psychotic children in the first 2 years of life from home movies. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 10, 433–444.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rutter, M. (1970). Autistic children. Infancy to adulthood. Seminars in Psychiatry, 2, 435–450.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rutter, M. (1985). Infantile autism and other pervasive developmental disorders. In M. Rutter & L. Hersov (Eds.), Child and adolescent psychiatry: Modern approaches (2nd ed., pp. 545–566). Oxford, England: Blackwell Scientific Publications.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rutter, M., Izard, C. E., & Read, P. B. (1986). Depression in young people: Developmental and clinical perspectives. New York: Guilford Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rutter, M., & Lord, C. (1987). Language impairment associated with psychiatric disturbance. In W. Yule & M. Rutter (Eds.), Language development and disorder (pp. 206–233). London and Oxford, England: McKeith Press/Blackwell.

    Google Scholar 

  • Singer, M. T., & Wynne, L. C. (1963). Differentiating characteristics of parents of childhood schizophrenics, childhood neurotics and young adult schizophrenics. American Journal of Psychiatry, 120, 234–243.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Skuse, D. (1984). Extreme deprivation in early childhood: Theoretical issues and a comparative review. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 25, 543–572.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Steinberg, D. (1985). Psychotic and other severe disorders in adolescence. In M. Rutter & L. Hersov (Eds.), Child and adolescent psychiatry: Modern approaches (2nd ed., pp. 567–583). Oxford, England: Blackwell Scientific Publications.

    Google Scholar 

  • Treffert, D. (1970). Epidemiology of infantile autism. Archives of General Psychiatry, 22, 431–433.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Tsai, L., Stewart, M., & August, G. (1981). Implication of sex differences in the familial transmission of infantile autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 11, 165–173.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Volkmar, F., & Cohen, D. (1985). The experience of infantile autism: A first-person account by Tony W. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 15, 47–54.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Volkmar, F., Hoder, E., & Cohen, D. (1985). Compliance “negativism” and the effects of treatment structure in autism: A naturalistic behavioural study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 26, 865–878.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Weeks, S. J., & Hobson, R. P. (1987). The salience of facial expression for autistic children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 28, 137–152.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Wing, L. (1981) Asperger’s syndrome: A clinical account. Psychological Medicine, 11, 115–130.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Wing, L., & Gould, J. (1979). Severe impairments of social interaction and associated abnormalities in children: Epidemiology and classification. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 9, 11–29.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Wolff, S., & Barlow, A. (1979). Schizoid personality in childhood: A comparative study of schizoid, autistic and normal children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 20, 19–46.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wolff, S., & Chick, J. (1980) Schizoid personality in childhood: A controlled follow-up study. Psychological Medicine, 10, 85–100.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, de Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF, England

    Patricia Howlin & William Yule

Authors
  1. Patricia Howlin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. William Yule
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

    Michael Lewis

  2. Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Suzanne M. Miller

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1990 Plenum Press, New York

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Howlin, P., Yule, W. (1990). Taxonomy of Major Disorders in Childhood. In: Lewis, M., Miller, S.M. (eds) Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7142-1_28

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7142-1_28

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA

  • Print ISBN: 978-1-4615-7144-5

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-4615-7142-1

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation