PSY 4105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Relational Disorder, Blood Test, Diuretic

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4105
• Professor: Caroline Sullivan

Document Summary

Dsm criteria: definition: persistent eating of non-nutritive, non-food substances that is inappropriate for developmental level of the child. What does pica mean: comes from a bird that eats everything. Comorbidity: autism spectrum disorder, intellectual development disorder, ocd, mildly associated with schizophrenia, trichotillomania (pulling of the hair, excoriation (picking of the skin, mineral deficiencies, sickle cell anemia, avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder. Ses: cultural effect varying cultural beliefs; what is normal in one culture is not in another, physiological: enjoy the taste texture or smell of the item they are eating. Differential reinforcement: positive encouragement of consuming of food items. Response blocking: ot shadow the child and block attempts at pica behaviour. Discrimination training: reinforcement to ingest food item over non-food item. Mild reprimands: mild punishment when consuming pica items. Controversy #1: feeding disorder between parent and children, consider a relational disorder between parent and child. Fails to capture the context where child lives.