CHYS 2P35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Salem Witch Trials, Abnormal Psychology, Biology Of Depression
14 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Focused on small group
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10% of the population of children and youth that are identified one way or another with having some sort of
exceptionality
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Inability to regulate emotions
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Genetics
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Chemical imbalance in the brain
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What do you think causes bipolar disorder?
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What we know now is not what we will know later
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Not static
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Its fluid just like exceptionalities
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Biology of an individual
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Who are we studying?
Cause, instead of genetic, or anything biological, it was demons
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Turned it in a museum
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Bad place
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Only way they thought to get the demons out of you
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Pressed to death and burned
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May have bipolar or schizophrenia
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Exhibiting behavior
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Not applauded back then
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See persecution around exceptionalities
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Individuals who struggled with exceptionalities historically that were understood as witches
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Salem
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Salem Witch Trials
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Demonology
Textbook talks about abnormal psychology
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Strange term
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Behavior we didn’t understand then, we refer to as abnormal
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Try to understand the cause of it
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Statistical term
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This is our own way we deal with it
Behavior we don’t understand
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Last year the catholic church was training more exorcists
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More exorcists because there are more people that are identified with abnormal behavior
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Exorcisms
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Have we moved beyond that?
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Abnormal
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Behavior that we didn’t understand
Last institution in Canada closed 7 or 8 years ago
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Great thing
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This means that in your class you will have children who are working in inclusive settings
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Notion of inclusion
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Changed the way we work with the 10% of children
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Changed education and special education forever
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Most important legal case that has happened
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Went to school at the Jim Crow School which was for black children
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Had to get bussed there, a long trek
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Linda Brown
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Brown Vs. Topeka Board of Education (1954)
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Institutions
Week 2: Historical Foundations and Exceptionalities
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Had to get bussed there, a long trek
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Right around the corner from the house was a school, but it was for white kids only
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Took to the courts
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The inability for Linda to attend a school that she wanted and was close was violating her basic
human rights
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THEY WON THE CASE
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Linda's mom
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“separate educational facilities are inherently unequal”.
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Segregation was over
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Before- educated in separate institutions
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Mainstream classes
After- move towards this notion that separate institution facilities are unequal
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Spread over to different categories including disabilities
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US supreme court ruling
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In Ontario it is dealt with by each individual province
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Each province has its own education acts, regulations, and policies
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Every kid has the right to achieve their individual goals in an inclusive setting
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Support
You are included in your whole education
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Inclusive setting: not mainstream anymore
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“students with special needs should experience education in settings that allow them to achieve their
individual goals in inclusive settings”.
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Each province has a special education guide line
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Hard term to understand
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Move from pressing to schizophrenia
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The systems need to change as we go
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We are going to be the policy makers
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Policy
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Provincial legislation
Still a problem
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Term we always use
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Standard deviations
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Normal curve
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Study the mean/ average (the norm)
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Not average
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Not normal/abnormal= not close to normal
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Just statistics
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Defining “Abnormal” Development
Behavior
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Far away from average
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How we as a culture and a school system define abnormal and categorize children
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What does it mean to have a disorder?
Development that is not within “normal” ranges
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Pay attention to what is normal/typical behavior in the context of development and age
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What is normal development?
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When does fantasizing become “not the norm”?
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Example –childhood fantasizing
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Norms are decided upon by development
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Abnormal development is what characterizes disorder
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“Abnormal” Development
Limited amount of money to support kids with exceptionalities
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Budget cuts
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Draw a line due to limited resources by policy makers
Our school system:
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Categorical vs. Dimensional
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Document Summary
10% of the population of children and youth that are identified one way or another with having some sort of exceptionality. Cause, instead of genetic, or anything biological, it was demons. Only way they thought to get the demons out of you. Individuals who struggled with exceptionalities historically that were understood as witches. Behavior we didn"t understand then, we refer to as abnormal. This is our own way we deal with it. Last year the catholic church was training more exorcists. More exorcists because there are more people that are identified with abnormal behavior. Last institution in canada closed 7 or 8 years ago. This means that in your class you will have children who are working in inclusive settings. Changed the way we work with the 10% of children. Went to school at the jim crow school which was for black children. Had to get bussed there, a long trek.
