PSY341H5 Lecture 2: PSY341 - Lecture 2
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Quick review: background, many children + adolescents experience mental health difficulties, ~1 in 8 in a given year. Importance of considering dev: reference to developmental tasks/expectations. Symptoms may present differently in children than in adults: despite experiencing adversity (that are typically known , some indivs are resilient, define resilient, despite being exposed to risk factors, some children don"t develop problems. Social context: context in which the indiv grew up. Assignment: don"t have to be as specific --> predisposi(cid:374)g, pre(cid:272)ipitati(cid:374)g, , might be good idea to search those articles. Scientific approach (what it is, why it"s important: research questions + examples, methods, research designs, ethical issues. Scientific approach: discussion, think of 3 things you already know about research in psych + h/ they might apply to research on abnormal child psych, 1: informed consent + assent, features of a scientific approach. Seems to have been researcher bias at work: 3: facilitated communication, video: "let"s talk about autism: matt brohead.
