Dev. L1 Flashcards
Is it violating a norm, determined by society,
That is considered abnormal.
Can also think of it as how statistically rare, eh. Iq
Charlie from Numbers, or SHeldon abnormal.
Sheldon dsm
Think of personal discomfort and
Maladaptive behaviour
Irk’s Sister abnormal food not touching on plate.
Probably not abnormal,
No distress, not a child.
Drinking beer, abnormal. No
Though frequenxy, intensity. Ocd.
Annoying other adults,
How old though,
Hitting someone who hit you first
Age, culture,
Lying
Frequenxy and purpose.
Worrying about future
Level of distress,
All could be fine or indicative of a problem.
Depends on context!
No single Behaviour is a problem per se
Ways to approach abnormality?
Norm violation
Stats, rarity, deviation from an ideal though? Unrealistic expectations
Personal discomfot
Maladaptive behaviour (intereference with functioning, stop doing what want to do)
Note with children think about discomfot for child and
For ppl around them.
Define abnormal behaviour
Pattern of symptoms associated with distress
Maladaptive, social issues,
Think of typical behaviour benchmark.
Typical beavhiour as a benchmark
Disability and risk
Lack of development,
Benchmarks, see slide.
Attachment, 2-5 self control sustained rela, 6-11 role taking, games, 12-20, friendships and romantic rela.
The scope of problem.
Braod prevalence.
1 in 8 has sig. Has mental health problem.
1 in meet criteria for dsm diagnosis.
Yet
Inadequate services.
Less than 10% get treated and those that do, do not get most effective treatment.
Patterns for developing a problem.
Gender:
Timing difference, boys more likely ADHD,
Adolescence, spike depression,anx. Ano.
Form,
Men,, higher externalizimg,
Females, internalizing problem.
Ses
1 in 6 children live in poverty.
Linked to higher rat of ADHD and other disorders, significant risk factor,
Culture,
Meaning of behaviours ex. Fire setting,
Expression of symptoms and underlying disfunction.
Gaijin kayufusho, do not want to offend others.
Changes interpretation ad outward behaviour, an less of a dsm disorder.
Ethnicity and race
Better accounted for by ses
Models of etiology
Diathesis: underlying tendency toward a disorder.
Not necessarily biological or genetic, could be emotion, or others see slide for ex.
Stress
Negative external events to a personl
Have to look at the model! To determine which is which.
Vulnerability? Stressor? —> ?
Maltreat, Sex abuse. PTSD
Diatheses stress model adopted.
Applied to many disorders.
Nature vs nurture,
Not one or the other though but both!
So d s model is great cuz it is dynamic and interaction based,
Foundation for complex theories,
Multiple interacting Diathesis and stressors.
Caspi ex.
All leads to multfinality
Vs equifinalirty multiple ways to get to same end point! Vs other which is same pathways getting to different end point.
Historical synopsis from textbook of child Paychopathology
Basically thinking of possession model from PSYC 337 kids were thought of as, imbeciles, lunatics and morally insane, an improvement from being treated like objects but not that great.
Disease models and a move towards pseudoscience improved treatment of these purposes, notable figures include Locke.
However Institutionaliztion ensued and made matters worse. Top two theories to address abnormal behaviour to develop were psychoanalytic focusing on the phenomenological cognitive aspect of where the child was in the the develop mental process and the behaviour therapy, focusing on the Behaviour
