Clinical And Counselling - Working With Children

Question 1

Changes in DSM 5

Answer 1

Elimination of the chapter ‘diagnoses usually first made in infancy, childhood or adolescence’

No longer differentiated according to age but instead according to aetiology

Organisation of chapters and disorder influenced by a developmental perspective

Some changes to diagnostic labels and criteria

Question 2

prevalence of childhood disorders

Answer 2

Estimated 10-20% of children and adolescents

Co morbidity is common

Question 3

Is childhood becoming over medicalised

Answer 3

Vast increase in childhood diagnoses and medical prescriptions

DSM 5 pathologies normal behaviour

Vested interests in a medical model of mental health

Can current health provision cope with the level of demand

Question 4

Special considerations of children in clinical and counselling psychology

Answer 4

1. Requires knowledge of typical development, but also an understanding of variation in development
2. Children do not self refer. How have they arrived at treatment

Question 5

Types of disorders

Answer 5

Those that tend to be diagnosed during childhood such as learning disorders, or occur throughout the life span such as depression

May be resolved during childhood

broadly divided in to internalising and externalising behaviours