Aspergers is defined by the world Health Organisation as a Psychological disorder. What are your views on this?
Aspergers is defined by the world Health Organisation as a Psychological disorder. What are your views on this?
Psychological disorders embrace anything from insomnia and anxiety to schizophrenia. The Society of Clinical Psychology includes in their list ADHD, but not autism.
The problem with autism/aspergers is where do you place it. It normally sits in a gap between mental health and learning disability, a category of its own.
I think it is used in some contexts as psychological, but the problem is nobody knows.
Psychological disorders embrace anything from insomnia and anxiety to schizophrenia. The Society of Clinical Psychology includes in their list ADHD, but not autism.
The problem with autism/aspergers is where do you place it. It normally sits in a gap between mental health and learning disability, a category of its own.
I think it is used in some contexts as psychological, but the problem is nobody knows.