PSY 2080C Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Heterosexuality, Truancy, Substance Abuse
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Suicide: these problems are bubbling underneath, evolve at 13-14 years old. One of the dynamics in term of child and adolescent psych some of these constructs that are in the chapters (realm of adolescent problems) Survey of who the skinny and fat girls are. 10 suicidal indicators three kinds of prognosis positive negative barded (i don"t know the progno4sis) Suicidal tendencies: depressed isolated hopeless abandonment suicide in the family communicated the desire to die talks about death and dying: anxiety and depression about it, plight into mental health. Don"t fall for it when someone who has been consistently upset and then one day is extremely happy: that is dangerous. They finally have the will to kill themselves and the depression is lifted because they are going to go through with it. The more you check off the list, the more problematical events that may occur with regards to the child: Previously been truant, suspended or expelled from school.
