PSYC 412 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Health Promotion, Reinforcement
29 Dec 2016
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Studying normal development informs us what abnormal development is and vice versa. Etiology: the study of the causes of childhood disorders. It considers the interaction of biological, psychological and environmental processes. Developmental psychopathology: approach to describing and studying disorders of childhood, adolescence and beyond which emphasizes the importance of developmental processes and tasks. Context is important as well as multiple interacting events in shaping adaptive and maladaptive development. 3 prominent assumptions derived from a developmental psychopathology perspective: multiply determined, interdependent, continuities and discontinuities. A particular problem or disorder may stem from a variety of causes, and similar risk factors may lead to very different outcomes. You must consider the developmental pathways and interacting events over time which contribute to a disorder. The child and the environment are interdependent meaning that they influence each other. People always thought that the environment acts on the child to cause change in development but children can actually also influence their own environment.
