PSYCH 477 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Playstation 4, Etiology, Psychoanalysis
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Criteria used to define deviant behavior: frequency: how often does child show behavior in question. Once a month: severity: foot stomping, head shaking, etc or rampage, destroying things in the rooms, hurting pets. Parents of rural mainland china are far more tolerant of shyness (seen as a good quality) Whereas the parents of canadian children seen shyness as a deviant behavior. There is no single criterion for defining psychopathology in children. In determining whether a child has a psychological disorder, we must ask. How does the child"s problem behavior reflect broader patterns of parent- what"s the (cid:498)big picture? (cid:499) child and family interaction? overlooked. Explaining the causes of child psychopathology: general thoughts. Absence of psychopathology does not imply competence; strengths often. All cases are individual, however we need this kind of information to assess. It was presumed that girls didn"t express psychopathology is based on children who are growing up in western cultures.
