PSYC 4030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Behaviour Therapy, Intellectual Disability, Dsm-5

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4030
• Professor: Lorne Sugar

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Psyc 4030 - lecture 8: client groups often treated through bt/cbt (i) *research says that bt is the best treatment for these types of people. If they are old enough, the client could also fill it out: compare client to other people their age. Seeing if they are performing better or worse than others their age. Examples of adapted behaviors: self-care, knowledge of health & safety rules, social skills (age appropriate, ability to function in the community. Standard scores: used on adapted behavior and intelligence tests, you can convert standard scores to percentiles. In real life, people are better at some dimensions than others. However, we assume that everything is equal enough to put it together for a total iq. *an additional category is people with borderline intellectual functioning have an iq between 70-79. With supportive environment, etc. , these people will have around a grade 8 level of education when done high school.