PSY341H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Gender Dysphoria, Expulsion Of The Acadians
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Disorders/psychopathologies diagnosed in adolescence after the age of 12-19 and perhaps a little after that. Under the age of 23 your brain is still developing: some psychologists would include those btw 19-23 into research for adolescence even though legally and socially they are considered adults. Because it"s a period of upheaval and change it become difficult to diagnose a psychopathology. Labile affect: up and down during adulthood it"s a symptom of psychopathologies (mood. Craziness is normal in this period of life changes) but found to be normal in teen years: due to significant hormonal changes, there are other things that are changing, that make a teens behavior appear abnormal. There is a distinction able to be made btw abnormal and normal behavior during teen years. Significant hormonal change in adolescence puberty: social. Significant changes in the social domain interactions with other people. Main interaction is now with peers rather than parents: cognitive. Piaget described this in a phase: operational phase.
