PSY240H5 Chapter Notes -Separation Anxiety Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Chapter 15 behaviour and emotional disorders of childhood and adolescence. ** main disorders discussed in this chapter are adhd, oppositional defiant disorder, and anxiety disorder. How we study and perceive children changes throughout time as means of doing so advances (ex. genetic testing) Most child psychologists today study disorders with the idea that the issue is biological. Mandatory schooling created the opportunity to identify those who had intellectual delays and were the first problems to be studied. At the end of the 1800s, attention shifted to abnormal brain functioning to be the source, based on observations that many disordered children had parents who were low in intellectual functioning. Leo kanner made the first textbook for child psychiatry and provided a framework for assessment, including sections on personality problems arising from physical illness, psychosomatic problems, behavioural problems, and a practical guide on collecting patient history. Child guidance clinics were first introduced in the states and england.