PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Family Therapy, Brain Damage, Physical Abuse
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Disorders of emotional life in childhood/adolescence are states when they are no longer able to cope. Concerned with extremes of emotions: intense and long-lasting states of anxiety, depression or of anger. The case of peter (child acting out at school as well as at home) America: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders fourth edition text. Revision(dsm-iv-tr) or international classification of diseases, tenth revision, Clinical modification (icd-10-cm) both based on a medical model and focus on individuals rather than their contexts: there is a continuum, (not: having a disorder or not having one). Method of assessment typically involves checklists of symptoms or behaviour patterns and sometimes questionnaires: in middle childhood, two kinds of emotional disorder become important: externalizing disorders defined by anger, hostility, aggression, stealing, and lying. Internalizing disorders include anxiety and depression with tendencies to withdraw. How are emotions involved in children"s disorders: two principal emotion-based externalizing disorders of childhood are called oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder.
