Ch 2 Flashcards
What Theory does to science
Communicate
Inform
Assemble
Interacting risk factors and processes that result to all child and family disturbances
Family
Individual
Community
Culture
Study of causes of childhood disorders
Etiology
We also have to look at DP and IE not just child’s current symptoms
Dev’t Pathway
Interacting Events
Sequence & timing of particular beh, and it’s relationship w other behs
DP
Dynamic interaction of child and env
Transaction
Transactional view regards both children and beh
Active contributors
Continuous abnormal devt
Gradual and quantitative
Discontinuous abnormal devt
Abrupt and qualitative
AF in one or more AoD indicate a child’s psych disorder
Adaptational failure
Areas of Dev’t
Abnormal beh operates D and I ways over time, that’s why it’s hard to disentangle
Dynamic and Interactive ways
Fundamental aspects of biological and beh systems
Change and reorganization
Environmental and learning enhances
Sensitive Periods
Developmental Psychopathology Perspective
Organize around milestones and sequences in development