PSY 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: World Health Organization, Developmental Psychopathology, Child Abuse

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 380
• Professor: Andrew Perkin

Document Summary

Examination of key risk factors and protective factors in the study of child maltreatment. Cognitive development (piaget): pre-operational stage, concrete operations, formal operations. Vygotsky: scaffolding, zone of proximal development. Attachment (bawlby: secure, avoidant, ambivalent, disorganized/disoriented. Interrelationship between normal and abnormal development: as opposed to mental illness as discrete process. Also takes a broader view of the influences on maladaptive and adaptive behavior: bronfenbrenner"s ecological model. Risk factor: any attribute, characteristic or exposure of an individual that increases the likelihood of developing a disease or injury. (world health organization, 2016, adverse childhood experiences: Stressful or traumatic events that affect development. Protective factors: enhance likelihood of positive outcomes and lessen likelihood of negative consequences from exposure to risk. (world health organization, 2016) Smoking, diet, sedentary: family history, gender, medicine. Risk factors: stress, genes, childhood trauma, physiological, drug use. Protective factors: contact with mental health professionals, medications, knowing about it, dealing with it, avoiding stressors, family support.