PSYC 412 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Applied Behavior Analysis, Guideposts
29 Dec 2016
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Children usually enter the mental health system as a result of concerns raised. Many children and adolescent problems involve failure to show expected. Many problems shown by children are not entirely abnormal. Determining the problem requires familiarity with normal, as well as abnormal development. by adults. This has important implications for how we detect children"s. Unlike intervention for adults, we don"t just want to restore previous. Prior to (cid:883)(cid:890)th century: child"s mental health problems (cid:523)and adult"s(cid:524) were seldom mentioned. Interest in abnormal child behavior first arose at end of. Children were not always seen as persons with their own rights psychological disorders vs. troublesome problem behaviors. function. Issues that research studies in abnormal child psychology seek to address. Defining what constitutes normal and abnormal behaviour for children of different ages, sexes and ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Identifying the causes and correlates of abnormal child behaviour. Developing and evaluating methods for treatment and or prevention.
