Josie, a six-year-old girl, is extremely shy and clingy. She…
Josie, a six-year-old girl, is extremely shy and clingy. She lives with her grandmother who is also raising her older siblings and her two female cousins, two and four. Josie’s mother has been imprisoned for selling drugs since Josie was two. Her home situation was very chaotic before her mother’s arrest and her subsequent placement with her maternal grandmother. The child is anxious and has difficulty focusing at school according to therapist observation. She is characterized by grandmother as negative and engages in temper tantrums when thwarted or corrected. According to the grandmother the child is quiet at home but will ask for things when she needs them. Her teacher, Ms. Dotson states, “Josie just will not speak at school even when I know she wants something. She apparently talks to her siblings and to her grandmother, but I cannot get a peep out of her at school. Her written work is really quite good, so I don’t think she has a cognitive delay. She is also pretty shy at school. I don’t have the problems with her that her grandmother seems to have. She is compliant and does not have tantrums, but she just doesn’t talk from the time she gets here till she gets on the bus to go home.” You diagnose Josie with what disorder?