• Anxiety: panic attacks, phobias: unrealistic fearfulness, nervousness in response to the anticipation of an event that you perceive to be dangerous.
  
  
• Adjustment Disorders: time-limited emergence of symptoms in reaction to a real life stressor.
  
  
• Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: impulsivity, inattention, distractibility.
  
  
• Communication Disorders: problems in acquiring reading, writing, speech, stuttering.
  
  
• Conduct Disorders: aggressive, oppositional, defiant behavior.
  
  
• Eating Disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, body image.
  
  
• Elimination Disorders: bedwetting, soiling, constipation.
  
  
• Feeding Disorders of Childhood: eating nonfood items, chewing and spitting up.
  
  
• Learning Disorders: reading, writing, arithmetic
  
  
• Mental Retardation: The full range, from mild to profound intellectual and social deficits.
  
  
• Mood Disorders: problems in the intensity and frequency of mood changes - depression, and the bipolar spectrum disorders.
  
  
• Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders: loss of reality testing, delusions, hallucinations
  
  
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: persistent ideas, repetitive rituals that are unproductive
  
  
• Pervasive Developmental Disorder: autism, Asperger's Syndrome
  
  
• Personality Disorders: problematic personality modes with inflexible and self-defeating ways of thinking, mood, relationships and impulse control. Overly dramatic, avoidant or eccentric styles.
  
  
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: intense symptoms in response to an extreme real stressor.
  
  
• Tourette's Syndrome and other tic Disorders: inappropriate/unusual stereotyped movements or sounds