PY 461 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fragile X Syndrome, Phenylketonuria, Mutation
24 Mar 2017
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What is normal: adjective, usual or ordinary; not strange, mentally and physically healthy. What is abnormal: adjective, different from what is normal or average. Abnormal behavior in children: what must we consider when examining child behavior, age, chronological age, mental age, gender, history and context. How common are childhood disorders: 15% of youth 6 to 16 have a diagnosable mental disorder at any given time, by age 16, 30% will have experienced a psychological disorder at some point. Accuracy of numbers: challenges related to identification and diagnosis, children have limited insight, parents are stressed, overlapping symptoms, changes in symptoms, homotypic continuity: same problems over time, heterotypic continuity: problems change over time. In general, psychological disorders are more common during adolescence because of things such as puberty. In childhood, boys at greater risk for developmental disorders and disruptive behavior: during adolescence, girls at greater risk for emotional disorders (e. g. depression, anxiety, more common among lower ses.
