PSYC 4P27 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Developmental Psychopathology, Protective Factor, Psychopathology

• School: Brock University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4P27
• Professor: Caitlin Mahy

Document Summary

Broadly conceptualized approach to understanding the complexities of human development. Primary goal: achieving science that can understanding the dynamic process relationships (positive and negative) underlying pathways of normal development, risks ot development and development of psychopathology. Development of psychopathology is a result of complex interplay of multiple influence that change over the course of development. Individual context: family context, social context, cultural context. School: must have alternative learning goals, trained teachers, often speech problems. Key to such biopsychosocial models; development is seen as: contextualized: development in context, multidimensional, dynamic: always changing, always interacting, probabilistic: outcomes not guaranteed. Childhood psychopathology seen as problems of development (contrast to biomedical or disease models of psychopathology) How might development go awry: developmental delays not yet, regressions falling backward, asynchronies unevenness, precocities too fast, developmental deviations qualitative shifts, adaptational failures cannot do what is expected.