PSY341H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intellectual Disability, Wet Nurse, Moral Insanity
29 Jul 2015
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There are also different feats that distinguish most child and adolescent disorders: When adult seeks assistance for children, unclear whose problem it is. Def: ongoing, consistent patterns of impaired cognition, emo"t, physical feats, and behaviour that are accompanied by 1+ of: distress, sadness, fear, impaired affect/cognition/physical/behavioural func"t, higher risk for further disability or loss of freedom. The individual is part of a big system with subsystems that all interact with one another. Explains diversity of influence and how each one are integrated into practices: bidirectional influence, interrelated systems that interact with the child on multiple levels, thus, look at child and their disorder on those different subsystems. Why do we study history: where we came from, understand present views, how we shape present. When seeking assistance, parents ask questions that exemplify issues in abnormal child psychology research: Defining what constitutes as normal/abnormal based on age, sex, ethnicity, and cultural bg. Causal explanation and correlates of ab behaviour.
