10.1. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Developmental Psychology Flashcards
What is Developmental Psychopathology?
The Science underpinning the Psychiatry:
- The Processes which go wrong during development
- How Genes / Biology / Life Experience interact
- How Adverse / Fortuitous Circumstances infulence each other
What are the Factors which effect Developmental Psychopathology?
- Genetic
- Intrauterine
- Psychosocial - Early / Late Experiental
What are the Genetic Factors which effect Developmental Psychopathology?
- Most Unidentified
- Polygenic Inheritance
- Polymorphisms: DAT / 5-HTTP / FRAX / MAO Gene
- Immune Locus
Note - Heritability = Genetic Variance / Variance (e.g. PKU)
What are the Intrauterine / Perinatal Factors which effect Developmental Psychopathology?
- Substance Misuse -
Alcohol / Marijuana - Toxins - Lead / Mercury / PCB’s
- Drugs - Psychotropics / Antiepileptics
- Epigenetics - Folate Controlled Methylation
- Environment - Endocrine / Immune / Maternal Stress
- Premature Birth / Perinatal Complications / Twinning
What are Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood linked to?
Physical Disorder (Brain Damage):
1. No Physical Disorder - 7% with Psychiatric Disorder
2. Physical Disorder - 12% with Psychiatric Disorder
3. Idiopathic Epilepsy - 29% with Psychiatric Disorder
4. Cerebral Palsy and Allied Disorders - 44% with Psychiatric Disorder
Note - Head Injury, impacts on Behaviour, impacts on Life Events …
What Early Experiences (Psychosocial) can effect Developmental Psychopathology?
- Carer-Child Relationship (Attachment)
- Parenting Skills
- Parental Mental Disorder (e.g. Post-Natal Depression)
- Marital Harmony
- Nutrition
- Discipline
What Later Experiences (Psychosocial) can effect Developmental Psychopathology?
- Schooling
- Peer Relationship
- Family Functioning
- Discipline
- Abuse - Physical / Sexual / Emotional
- Life Events - Losses
- Race - At School (Not Home)
What are the Processes which effect Developmental Psychopathology?
- Executive Function
- Cognition
- Attachment
What are the 2 Resilience Concepts?
- Turning Points - Changing Life Trajectory as a Result of Events
- Steeling - Like the Bending or Stretching of Hot Steel to make it Stronger when Cold
What are the Developmental Stages of Social and Emotional Cognition?
- Joint-Attention - Learning to Judge what someone else is thinking
- Theory of other Minds - Represent others thoughts as different from our own
- Reward-Based Learning
- Controlling Emotional Responses - Emotional Regulation
Do Adverse Experiences have an Effect on Development of Threat and Reward Response Mechanisms?
Yes
What is Involved in Theory of other Minds?
- Joint-Attention
- Understanding False Belief
- Social Reprocity and Understanding
What does the Experience of Adversity have on the Reward Model of Addiction?
- Early Adversity - Reduced Dopamine Function
- Decreased Reward Sensitivity
- Increased Behaviour to elicit Reward / Increased Reward required for Satiety
- Increased Tolerance
- Increased Behaviour
6 return to Step 2
When, in every day situations, can the Application of the Reward Deficiency Model be used?
- Obesity - Food and Sugar “Addiction”
- Drug and Alcohol
- Gambling
- Porn / Sex
What is the most common Hyperkinetic Disorder?
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)