Chapter 1

Question 1

What percentage of prevalence rates are the current best estimates of children worldwide who have a clinically diagnosable disorder?

Answer 1

20-40%

Question 2

Which socioeconomic class has most children treated for mental health problems and which have been reported to display more psychopathology and other problems?

Answer 2

Middle class, Lower-SES children

Question 3

Childhood disorders have most commonly been conceptualized in what terms?

Answer 3

In terms of deviances involving breakdowns in adaptive functioning, statistical deviation, unexpected distress or disability, and/or biological impairment.

Question 4

What parameters does Garber (1984) stress the need to understand in determining whether a given behavior should be considered to be deviant?

Answer 4

intensity, frequency, duration, atypicality, number of different symptoms and configuration

Question 5

Differentiate between externalizing and internalizing dimensions?

Answer 5

“Externalizing,” or “undercontrolled” problems encompass behaviors often though of as directed at others, whereas “internalizing” or “overcontrolled” problems describe feelings or states that are commonly viewed as “inner-directed.”

Question 6

What are the two most common approaches to the diagnosis and classification of child psychopathology?

Answer 6

• Categorical classification systems that are based primarily on informed clinical systems that are based primarily on informed clinical consensus, an approach that has dominated and continues to dominate the field.
• Empirically based “dimensional” classification schemes

Question 7

Define comorbidity.

Answer 7

Comorbity generally refers to the manifestation of two or more disorders that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance alone.