PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Psychiatric Epidemiology
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Peter-had conduct disorder-dont behave according to social norms: suspended for getting into a fight with other child. Field is clinical psychology of childhood and adolescence. Importance of diagnosis is that someone who fulfills defined criteria for a defined period is usually, though not always, impaired in their functioning. Study of such abnormal functioning is known as psychopathology. Among diagnostic symptoms of an anxiety state might be excessive or unrealistic worry about future events. Main scheme used in north america is dsm-iv-tr=diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders-4th edition. Another one is icd-10-cm=international classification of diseases, tenth revision: includes psychiatric disorders. Both schemes are bases on a medical model and focus on individuals rather than their contexts. If older, u do it yourself: clusters of behaviours are identified. In middle childhood two kinds of emotional disorder become important: externalizing disorders-anger, hostility, aggression, stealing, lying, internalizing disorders-anxiety and depression with tendencies to withdraw.
