PSY 445 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: School Refusal, Conduct Disorder, Eating Disorder
Document Summary
Some are universally abnormal: muteness, serious self-injury, eating feces. Introduction to normal/abnormal behavior in children and adolescents. Child problems involve failure to show expected developmental progress influence of locke fostered the expansion of universal education, troubling children became a societal issue. Led to basic distinction between persons with mental retardation/disorders. 1950s behavior therapy emerged as systematic approach to treatment of child/family disorders. Developmental psychopathology perspective | importance of developmental processes. To understand maladaptive behavior, must first understand normal. Biological perspective | brain and nervous system underlie psychological disorders. Psychoanalytic theory | influenced advances in ways of thinking about causes/treatment of mental disorders. Shifted view of child being innocent/insignificant to that of humans being in turmoil and trying to be accepted. Behaviorism | watson"s theory of emotions extrapolated from normal/abnormal behavior. Nosologies efforts to classify psychiatric disorders into descriptive categories. Dsm-iv attempts to find common denominators that describe manifestations of disorder.
