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| views development as the result of continuous interplay of individual and environmental factors which interact and influence each other. its a bidirectional relationship |
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| what questions do abnormal child research want to find out |
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1. what is normal and abnormal ?does it depend on gender, race, age, cultural background?
2. ideity the causes
3. making predictions about long term outcomes
4. developing methods for treatment/prevention. |
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the efforts to classify psychiatric disorders into descriptive categories.
they are non developmental in their approaches. |
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| study of normal development |
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| study of symptoms, causes and treatment of behavior disorders |
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| what is abnormal behavior? loose definiton |
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| hindering daily finction, profound effect on child and family for long periods of time. but is abnormal always a bad thing>? (gifted students) |
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| they lose the skills they once had |
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| it may indicate a problem and the child becomes stuck |
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| additional norms of defining abnormal behavior |
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| gender, contextual/situational norms, cultural norms |
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| behaviors that are not present in typical behavior ( hallucinations, severe behavior) |
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| behavioral differences indications |
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frequency
intensity
duration
situation - is it right for the sit.
abrupt changes (walks before crawls, alphabet before language skills) |
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| most restrictive! a pattern of behavior needed and they need to meet a certain number of criteria. |
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| those who really need mental care cant get it because: |
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| less education, no money, no health insurance, they are not comfortable with the idea, cultural norms. |
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| variables that precede the onset of disorder and sever to increase the chances that a negative outcome will occur. often cumulative! |
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| variables that increase the child's ability to avoid negative outcomes despite being at risk for psychopathology. |
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| risk factors of the individual |
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constitutional:which is genetic, prenatal, health care and nutrition.
emotional/interpersonal: self-esteem, temperament, social incompetence |
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| poverty, homelessness, abuse, parents have a disorder, stress, divorce |
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| extrafamilial risk factors. |
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| neighborhood, community violence, gender, race, death, war, disaster. |
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| protective individual factors |
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| intelligence, easy temperament, self confidence, talent, optimism, they seek and receive developmentally appropriate support and experiences. |
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| protective family factors |
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| close relationships, authoritative parenting style, socioeconomic advantage |
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| extra-familial protective factors |
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| bonds with positive adult role models, good schools, outside organizations. |
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| look more at sequence and toming of behaviors both normal and abnormal and the relationship between behaviors over time. |
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| 2 very important developmental pathways |
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| multifinality and equifinality |
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| similar early experiences ( risk factors) can lead to different outcomes |
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| different early experiences (risk) can lead to similar outcomes (these depend on gender age, frequency, duration, intensity etc) |
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| person evokes response (usually negative)in others, and then reacts in turn to this response. |
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child channeled into environments that perpetuate maladaptive style.
ex: aggressive, doesn;t get along with anyone so they put him in a class with the bad kids, bad friends, gets kicked out of school, unable to find real job, starts doing something illegal. |
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