Chapter 1 Introduction

Question 1

Developmental psychopathology

Answer 1

Intense, frequent, and persistent maladaptive patterns of emotion, cognition, and behavior considered within the context of normal development, resulting in the current and potential impairment of infants, children, and adolescents.

Question 2

Statistical deviance

Answer 2

Compared to the distribution in a particular sample, statistical deviance refers to the relative infrequency of certain emotions, cognitions, and/or behaviors.

Question 3

Sociocultural norms

Answer 3

The beliefs and expectations of certain groups about what kinds of emotions, cognitions, and/or behaviors are undesirable or unacceptable.

Question 4

Developmental epidemiology

Answer 4

Frequencies and patterns of distributions of disorders in infants, children, and adolescents.

Question 5

Prevalence

Answer 5

All current cases of a type (or types) of disorder.

Question 6

Incidence

Answer 6

New cases of a type (or types) of disorder in a given time period.

Question 7

Barriers to care

Answer 7

Factors that impede access to mental health services.

Question 8

Stigmatization

Answer 8

Negative attitudes (such as blaming or overconcern with dangerousness), emotions (such as shame, fear, or pity), and behaviors (such as ridicule or isolation) related to psychopathology and mental illness.

Question 9

structural barriers

Answer 9

Lack of provider availability, inconveniently located services, transportation difficulties, inability to pay, inadequate insurance coverage.

Question 10

individual barriers

Answer 10

Denial of problems or lack of trust in the system.

Question 11

sociocultural barriers

Answer 11

The stigma of psychopathology or mental illness.

Question 12

dimensions of stigma

Answer 12

stereotypes, devaluation, discrimination

Question 13

two targets of stigma

Answer 13

individual and family

Question 14

two contexts of stigma

Answer 14

general public and self-individual