PSYB32H3 Lecture : Chapter15.doc
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Psychopathology: study of disorders of the psyche, that is the mind. Developmental psychopathology: the investigation of origins, courses, changes and continuities in disordered or maladaptive behavior over a person"s lifespan. Principles of developmental psychopathology applicable to all age groups. Psychiatry provides with the ideas about the causes and treatments of emotional problems. Misconceptions: it is a disease or a physical illness, it results from abnormal physiological processes or intrapsychic (mental) processes. Due to the above misconceptions developmental psychologists believe medical model as being insufficient. They believe developmental psychopathology as a collection of problem in living caused by environmental circumstances. Meanwhile there are some problems such as autism and attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder that have genetic roots. Defining abnormality as any behaviors or feelings that differ in some degree from the average. This method of defining abnormality is referred to as statistical model.
