PSYCO239 Lecture 31: Chapter 14 (Lecture and Textbook)
4 Dec 2016
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Abnormal functioning can occur at any time in life. Time for critical brain developments, and critical developments in social, emotional, cognitive, etc. areas. Adolescence can also be a difficult period: physical and sexual changes, social and academic pressures, personal doubts, and temptation cause many teenagers to feel anxious, confused and depressed. Bullying: over of students report being bullied frequently and more than 70% report having been a victim at least once. Some disorders of children childhood anxiety disorders and childhood depression have adult counterparts. Other childhood disorders elimination disorders, for example usually disappears or radically change form by adulthood. There also are disorders that begin in birth or childhood and persist in stable forms into adult life: these include autism spectrum disorder and intellectual developmental disorder. Neurologically based disorders that are revealed in a clinically significant way during a (cid:272)hild"s de(cid:448)elopi(cid:374)g (cid:455)ears.
