PSY341H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Clifford Whittingham Beers, Intellectual Disability
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The emergence of social conscience: john locke (17th century) Considered children and youth as actual human beings deserving proper attention and care: jean-marc itard (19th century, leta hollingworth. Distinguished people with mental retardation with those with psychiatric/mental health issues: benjamin rush. Early psychological attributes: psychoanalytic theory linked mental disorders to childhood experiences and surroundings. Purported that mental disorders are due to relationship a child has with his/her mother. Retains a role as a model for abnormal child psychology: behaviorism laid the foundation for evidence-based treatments which are to do with the behavior of the individual. Pa(cid:448)lo(cid:448)"s (cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h o(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)i(cid:374)g sali(cid:448)ati(cid:374)g dogs to a (cid:271)ell (cid:396)i(cid:374)g. Watso(cid:374)"s little albert study which conditioned a baby to attain a phobia to white rats which was generalized to other animals as well (rabbit, dog, furry object and white mask worn by watson) Evolving forms of treatment: psychodynamic approaches 1930 to 1950 is when they prevailed.
