PSYC 4460 Chapter 1: Atypical ch. 1 textbook notes.docx
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Massachusetts" stubborn child act of 1654, which permitted parents to put. Judgements of deviancy also require knowledge of a child"s performance relative to that of same-age peers, as well as knowledge of the child"s course of development and cultural context. In effect, the study of abnormal child psychology considers not only the degree of maladaptive behaviour children show but also the extent to which they achieve normal developmental milestones. Multifinality is the concept that various outcomes may stem from similar beginnings (in this case maltreatment). There are many contributors to disordered outcomes in each individual. Contributors vary among individuals who have the disorder. Individuals with the same specific disorder express the features of their disturbance in different ways (e. g. , some children with a conduct disorder are aggressive, whereas others may be destructive to property or engage in theft or deceit). The pathways leading to any particular disorder are numerous and interactive, as opposed to unidimentsional and static.
