Lecture 1 Intro to Child Pathology

Question 1

What are some challenges of the DSM?

Answer 1

• High rates of comorbidity of child disorders
• Symptom severity and number of symptoms required as criteria for diagnoses at different developmental levels.

-Appropriateness of criteria for developmental populations.

Question 2

What are the five key Themes related to Developmental Psychology

Answer 2

1) Normal development typically proceeds along an orderly and predictable path.

2) Maladaptive behaviors represent deviations from the normal path

3) Maladaptive behavior is represented by a continuum of severity.

4) Individual, interpersonal, contextual, and cultural factors influence deviations in development.

5) Clinical psychologists can draw on a multiplicity of theoretical perspectives to assist in understanding maladaptive behaviors.

Question 3

What is the K-3 Paradigm?

Answer 3

1) knowledge of development

2) Knowledge of contexts

3) Knowledge of theories

Question 4

What is the Developmental Psychopathology perspective

Answer 4

The study of the origins and course of individual patterns of behavioral maladaptation, whatever the age of onset, whatever the cause, whatever the transformations in behavioral manifestation, and however complex the course of the developmental pattern may be.

Question 5

What are the three components of case formulation

Answer 5

1) Descriptive information

2) Diagnosis

3) Inferential information

Question 6

What is Inferential Information

Answer 6

1) Inferred problems in global psychological, social, or occupational functioning

2) Inferred symptoms or problems

3) Predisposing experiences, events, traumas, stressors inferred as explanatory

Question 7

What are common Etiological Considerations and Risks

Answer 7

• Genetic influences

-Temperament

-hypo or hyperactive infant

-Insecure child-parent
attachments

• Difficult child behavior

-Social/ cognitive deficits

• Deficits in social learning and emotion regulation.

Question 8

Is there gender differences

Answer 8

• Sources of difference poorly understood
• Females sometimes purposefully excluded from research
• Research is often done on boys
• Resilience differs between boys and girls (Boys are more resilient when there is a strong male figure present; Girls are more resilient with support from mom and a house that combines risk-taking and independent practices)

Question 9

What are the important basic facts of epidemiology

Answer 9

• Greater differences found than with ethnicity alone
• Culture structures how people and institutions react to a child’s problems

Question 10

What is the central tenet for Developmental Psychopathology

Answer 10

To understand maladaptive behavior adequately, it must be viewed in relation to what may be considered normative for a given developmental period.