PSY 338 Lecture 12: PSY 338 Health Issues and Substance Abuse
22 Mar 2017
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Psy 338 chapter 12 health-related and substance use disorders. Maturational changes: sleep patterns, needs, and problems change over course of maturation. Involve disruptions in sleep process: many of these problems resolve themselves as child matures, quite common in childhood with exception of narcolepsy, parasomnias: disorders in which behavioral or physiological events intrude ongoing sleep. Involve physiological or cognitive arousal at inappropriate times during sleep-wake cycle: complaints of unusual behaviors while asleep, common afflictions of early to mid-childhood; children typically grow out of them. Include nightmares (rem parasomnias) and sleep terrors and sleepwalking (often referred to as arousal parasomnias: diagnosis for all sleep-related disorders require significant distress/impairment; cannot be better accounted for by another mental disorder, substance effects, or general medical condition. Elimination disorders: can turn into distressing and chronic difficulties; can affect participation in education and social activities, extreme cases: toileting accidents can precipitate physical child abuse, two elimination problems occurring during childhood and adolescence, enuresis.
