PSY341H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Chronic Poverty, Maladjusted, Birth Weight
29 Jul 2015
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Chapter 1: intro"d to normal and abnormal behaviour in children and adolescents. When seeking assistance, parents ask questions that exemplify issues in abnormal child psychology research: Defining what constitutes as normal/abnormal based on age, sex, ethnicity, and cultural bg. Causal explanation and correlates of ab behaviour. Develop evaluation methods for treat"t and prevention. There are also different feats that distinguish most child and adolescent disorders: When adult seeks assistance for children, unclear whose problem it is. Def: ongoing, consistent patterns of impaired cognition, emo"t, physical feats, and behaviour that are accompanied by 1+ of: distress, sadness, fear, impaired affect/cognition/physical/behavioural func"t, higher risk for further disability or loss of freedom. Early rome/greece: early writings suggest children were considered servants of the state in early greece. Ancient rome/greece thought of young children and the elderly with mental handicap as an economic burden, social embarrassment, and was scorned, humiliated, and killed.
