PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Peer Group, Frontal Lobe, Nucleus Accumbens
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In north america, the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders is used to make a diagnosis, whereas the international classification of. Information is usually gathered through psychometric assessment (checklists and questionnaires completed by clinicians, teachers, parents or their children). This method allows clusters of behaviors to overlap. How is emotion involved in children"s mental disorders: most-common emotion-based disorders of the childhood are described along two spectrums: Internalizing: characterized by disruptive behavior ( acting out such as conduct disorder). Other common psychopathologies of childhood (e. g. adhd) are not emotional in their core symptoms. In one study, children were sown videotapes that portrayed a child bumping into another child or one refusing to let another play. Aggressive kids were more likely to say that the child who bumped into the child was being intentionally hostile while nonaggressive children said the event was an accident.
