Mental Health Flashcards
What are 5 main adolescent problems?
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Substance use
- Delinquency
- Eating disorders
What are internalizing problems?
Which gender is it more common in?
What are 3 examples.
4pts
- Directed inward, toward the self
- Over-controlled impulses
- More common among girls
- Anxiety, depression, disordered eating
What are externalizing problems?
Which gender is it more common in?
What are 4 examples.
4pts
- Directed outward, toward others
- Under-controlled impulses
- More common among boys
- Aggression, delinquency, antisocial behavior, adolescent-limited problems
Adolescents whose antisocial behavior first appears in childhood and tends to continue into adulthood.
Life-course-persistent offenders/problems
Adolescents who become involved in antisocial activities during adolescence and typically do not continue them into adulthood.
Adolescence- limited offenders/problems
Boys whose BLANK is low show more externalizing problems
cortisol
In the CBCL what are the two Broadband Syndromes:
Internalizing & externalizing
What are 3 types of diagnostic interviews- gold standard?
- Structured
- Semi Structured
- Unstructured
What does delinquency look like?
4pts
- Acting out
- Status offences
- Criminal acts
- Conduct problems (running away, break and enter, fighting, truancy)
Taking a drug to experience the effects of the drug.
Taking a drug as a means to reach some socially acceptable goal, such as relieving pain or falling asleep.
The idea that the use of relatively mild illicit drugs, such as marijuana, makes it more likely that a person will go on to use more dangerous hard drugs.
- Recreational substance use
- Instrumental substance use
- Gateway hypothesis
