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John Locke |
believed in individual rights |
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Jean-Mark Itard |
took care of the wild boy, focused on care and treatment of child and training of mental defectives |
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Leta Hollingsworth |
child's problems were due to poor treatment by parents distinguished between retardation and those with psychiatric disorders |
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Benjamin Rush |
children are incapable of adult like insanity those with normal cognitive abilities but bad behaviour suffer from moral insanity |
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The revolution of mental illnesses being taken more seriously was led by |
advances in general medicine ( dorthea dix) adoption of Locke Philosophy |
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Psycho-Analytic Theory |
Freud linked mental disorders to childhood experiences mental disorders can be helped with proper environment or therapy still model for abnormal child psychology |
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Behaviourism |
Pavlov- classical conditioning Watson- little Albert ( associated rat with big bang) |
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Evolving Forms of Treatment |
1930-1950- children with mental illness institutionalized 1940- Spits pointed out how bad they were 1945-1965- institution decreased ( foster care and group homes more of a thing) 1950s, 1960s- behaviour therapy emerged as systematic approach for child and family disorders |
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IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) |
free must be assessed with culturally appropriate test given IEP ( individual education program) |
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What is abnormal behaviour |
anything below the 2nd percentile and above the 98th percentile |
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Defining Psychological Disorders |
scoring outside the norm on a questionaire does not mean disorder to diagnose we must see impairment |
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Child Behaviour Checklist |
there is no any one test that you can take to diagnose, only a checklist |
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defining psychological disorders |
patterns of behavioural, cognitive, emotional, or physical symptoms linked with one or more of distress, disability, and increased risk of further suffering or harm culture and cicumstance matter characteristic describes behaviour not cause |
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Labels Describe Behaviour Not People |
DSM-5 guidelines- primary purpose of using terms is to help describe and organize complex features of behaviour patterns |
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Competence |
the ability to successfully adapt in the environment AC psychology looks at the degree of maladaptive behaviour and the extent to which normal development milestones are met |
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Developmental tasks - infancy to preschool |
attachment to caregivers language differentiation of self from environment |
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Developmental tasks- middle childhood |
self control and compliance school adjustment ( attendance, appropriate conduct) academic achievement getting along with peers following rules |
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Developmental tasks- adolescence |
successful transition to secondary schooling academic achievement involvement in extracurricular activities forming close friendships within and across gender forming a cohesive sense of self identity |
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Multifinality vs Equifinality |
multifinality- one experience that can have multiple outcomes equifinality- multiple experiences have the same outcome |
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Risk Factor vs Protective Factor |
Risk factor- a variable that precedes a negative outcome of interest ( poverty, care giving defecits) Protective Factor- a personal or situational variables that mitigates a child developing a disorder ( enjoy shcool, in extracurriculars, good support system) |
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Resilience |
ability to fight off or recover from a misfortune a protective factor |
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Significance of mental health problems among children and youth |
1 in 8 children has a mental health problem majority of kids who need help don't get it |
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Mental Health problems are more likely in children from |
disadvantaged families abusive or neglectful families receiving inadequate child care born with very low birth weight whose parents have amental illness or substance abuse problems |
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Poverty |
1/5 in US and 1/7 in Canada |
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Sex differences |
boys are more directly aggressive while girls are more indirect 3-18 diverge, 18 converge back boys act out, girls act in |
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Race |
socially constructed concept, not a biological one minority children in the US are overrepresented in rates of some disorders less race and more gender, age, SES |
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Culture |
don't generalize research from one culture to another |
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Child Maltreatment and Non-Accidental Truama |
nearly one million cases of child abuse an neglect in the US each year more than 1/3 of 10-16 year olds experience physical and or sexual assault can contribute to PTSD, major depressive disorder, substance abuse/ dependance |
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Lifespan Implications |
impact is most severe if it goes untreated for extended periods of time ( 20% of worst cases least likely finish high school and most likely finish children can overcome this if provided with healthy adaptation and competance |
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Lunacy once a month |
came from the thought that people were crazy during a full moon this was due to confirmation bias ( looking for the crazies on a full moon) |