Assignment task:
Diagnosis options Sue Ellen Svenda is a 4-year-old Caucasian female. Her mother, originally from Sweden, works as a graphic designer at a local marketing firm. Her father is from the United States and works as a Psychiatric Nurse at a local inpatient treatment facility. Sue Ellen's mother brought her to you due to problems she was experiencing in preschool. Her teachers reported that she refused to follow directions and disrupted other children. She was not interested in playing with others, preferring to be alone. When redirected, she sometimes becomes violent-kicking and hitting the teachers. During the interview, she did not make eye contact with the interviewer. Instead, she went to the light switch and repeatedly turned it off and on. Occasionally, she would screech or mimic what was being said by the adults. Sue Ellen's mother reported that she noticed from birth that she was somehow different from her older sister and that nothing seemed right. She was delivered by an emergency C-section at 37 weeks. Her Apgar scores were normal; however, her mother remembers that she wouldn't look at her. She also didn't cry when she was born. She described her as "our baby had a scarecrow quality-- thin