NROB60H3 : Emotion and cognition
15 Feb 2012
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Chapter 12: emotions and mental health in childhood. Emotions and disorders: disorders of emotional life in childhood and adolescence are states in which young people are no longer able successfully to cope, or in which they are getting into serious trouble. Much of this area is concerned with extremes of emotions: with intense and long-lasting states of anxiety, of depression, or of anger. The case of peter: a boy with conduct disorder very angry; whenever his parents speak to him he replies in a hostile tone. He also describes feelings of sadness and loneliness. The main system is that of psychiatric diagnosis, usually by means of an interview. The method of assessment, here, typically involves checklists of symptoms or behavior patterns, and sometimes questionnaires, with a parent or teacher completes for a particular child. At older ages the children themselves complete it.
