PSYC 432 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psychopathology, Maladaptation
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This perspective integrates the study of the normal childhood developmental processes and childhood psychopathology. Stable adaptation: few environmental issues, good self worth, few behavioral problems, consistent. Stable maladaptation: many environmental adversities, poor self worth, behavioral problems, consistent. Reversal of maladaptation: intervention in otherwise stable maladaptation like scholarship or military service. Decline of adaptation: intervention in stable adaptation, adversity introduced later. Temporal maladaptation: stable adaptation, negative intervention (like drug abuse), and then a positive intervention getting an individuals life back on track: mediators vs moderators. Moderators: change the strength of an effect or relationship between two variables gender could be a moderating factor as to why a drug could see more positive results in treating boys rather than girls. Mediators: explain how or why a particular relationship occurs marital con ict could be a mediator of a childhood dif culty/disorder: equi nality vs multi nality. Equi nality: diverse factors can lead to the same outcome ex.
