Exam 2 Definitions For Behavior Disturbances In Children

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Risk Factors

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Characteristics, events, or processes that put the individual at risk for the development of psychological problems

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Assortative Mating

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The tendency that individuals with psychological problems tend to become romantically involved with and have children with other individuals with psychological problems

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Triangulation

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When a child is put in the middle of their parent's arguments

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Emotional Neglect

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Failure to provide a child's basic emotional needs

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Emotional Abuse

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Abusive behavior that lead to psychological harm in a child. These parental behaviors include verbally assaulting or terrorizing a child, or active rejection of a child

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Physical Abuse

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The intentional harming of a child through physical force (e.g., hitting, shaking)

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Physical Neglect

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Failure to provide for a child's basic physical needs including health care, food, clothing, shelter, and supervision

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Educational Neglect

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Failure to provide for a child's educational needs, including chronic truancy and failing to enroll child in mandatory school age in school

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Cumulative Risk

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The concept that those with more risk factors present in their lives are at increased chance of experience psychological problems

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Protective Factors

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Characteristics within the child, family, or community that serve to decrease the likelihood of a child developing psychopathology in the face of adversity

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Resilience

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The process by which children overcome adverse circumstances and develop into healthy and competent young adults. This is closely tied to protective factors, but usually focuses on the individual characteristics.

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Self-efficacy

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Cognitive process in which children have come to expect success and believe that they can perform successfully in any new challenging situation.

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Authoritative Parenting Style

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Approach to parenting that is characterized by both high levels of expressions of warmth and acceptance as well as firm, age appropriate discipline. This style appears to be universally protective for children.

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Authoritarian Parenting Style

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Approach to parenting that is characterized by high levels of firm, age-appropriate discipline, but low levels of expressions of warmth and acceptance. This style appears to be protective with African American children, but not Caucasian children.

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Permissive Parenting Style

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Approach to parenting that is characterized by high levels of warmth and acceptance but low levels of firm discipline.

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Disengaged Parenting

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Approach to parenting that is characterized by low levels of both warmth/acceptance and firm discipline.

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Prevalence Rates

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The number of cases of a disorder, whether new or previously existing, that are observed during a specified time period.

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Incidence Rates

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The number of new cases of a disorder within a specified time period.

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Confidentiality

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Ethical practice never to reveal information obtained without specific consent from client (or research participant)

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Privileged Communication

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A legal right protecting clients from having their disclosures to certain professionals revealed during legal proceedings without their informed consent.

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Informed Consent

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The process by which research participants or clients are informed about what is going to take place and through which they willingly agree to participate. Adults can give consent; children needs legal guardian to give consent for them.

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Assent

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The same process by which children under the age of 18 who are research participants or clients agree to participate. Also needs parental consent.

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Reliability

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The extent to which a measure or result is repeatable or consistent (e.g., test-retest reliability, inter-rater reliability internal consistency)

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Validity

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The extent to which a measure actually assesses the dimension or construct that the research sets out to measure

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Standardization

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When a test has developed norms or standards for a population that an individual can be compared to.

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Physical Abuse

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The intentional harming of a child through physical force (e.g., hitting, shaking)

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Physical Neglect

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Failure to provide for a child's basic physical needs including health care, food, clothing, shelter, and supervision

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Educational Neglect

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Failure to provide for a child's educational needs, including chronic truancy and failing to enroll child in mandatory school age in school

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Cumulative Risk

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The concept that those with more risk factors present in their lives are at increased chance of experience psychological problems

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Protective Factors

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Characteristics within the child, family, or community that serve to decrease the likelihood of a child developing psychopathology in the face of adversity