PSYC 412 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Major Depressive Episode, Synaptic Pruning
29 Dec 2016
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Introduction to normal and abnormal behavior in children and adolescents. Children mental health problems and need now receive greater attention , which corresponds to society"s recent concern about children"s wellbeing. Ignore it and it"ll stop : but it didn"t stop, georgina developed more elaborate rituals for counting"s words and objects, primarily in groups of four, georgina was constantly terrified of forgetting a passage or objects of being interrupted. How you choose to describe the problems that children show and what harm or impairments such problem may lead to is often the first step toward understanding the nature of their problems. Georgina"s symptoms fit the diagnostic criteria for obsessive- compulsive disorder. Georgina"s problems also illustrate important features that distinguish most child and adolescent disorders: when adults seek services for children, it often is not clear whose problems it is . Children usually enter the mental health system as a result of concerns raised by adults ( parents, pediatricians, teachers)
