PSYC18H3 Chapter 12: chapter 12
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Chapter 12- emotions and mental health in childhood. Has conduct disorder, screams at everyone, is rude and defiant. Steals money hits his sisters and fights with people at school. Diagnoses are descriptions of patterns of behaviour. The study of abnormal functioning is known as psychopathology. The main scheme used to diagnose psychiatric problems of adults and children in north. America is the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. (dsm-iv) Another way of conceptualizing emotional disorders often preferred by psychologists is to accept that there are no sharp distinctions between having and not having a disorder. The method of assessment here involves checklists of symptoms or behaviour patterns and sometimes questionnaires. In middle childhood 2 types of disorders become important: externalizing disorders defined by anger, hostility, aggression, stealing, and lying, and internalizing disorders which include anxiety and depression with tendencies to withdraw. 2 principal emotion-based externalizing disorders of childhood are called oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder.
