PSY 4105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychopathology, Rating Scale, Psychotherapy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4105
• Professor: Maria Rogers

Document Summary

Resilience: resilience: successful adaptation to difficult circumstances, differential susceptibility to the environment, possibility that children may benefit from exposure to stress. Dimensions of psychopathology: symptom clusters or syndromes, externalizing or "under controlled"- directed at others, oppositional and conduct problems, depression and anxiety, similar structure in adult psychopathology, clustering more appropriately defines psychopathology than individual symptoms. Assumptions of the dms categorical system: presence or absence of condition is based on diagnostic criteria, based on observable behaviour, must be present for time frame, age requirements, several but not all criteria have to be present. Cons: effects parenting, access to help, class placement, better understanding, support groups, proper treatment, effects parenting, stigma, self esteem, segregation, false impressions. Multi-method approach: meet with child/adolescent and then the parent, observe parents and children together, rating scales, classroom observations, standardized testing. Adult scale vs. child scale: different wording, more simple scale for children, less questions for children, more organized for children.