PSY-PC 2550 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Family Therapy, Peer Pressure, Suicidal Ideation
3 Jan 2017
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Discuss the comorbidity of externalizing and internalizing psychological problems. Externalizing: associated with delinquency, truancy, defiance, sexual promiscuity, academic difficulties, violence, low impulse control. Unconventional teens in an unconventional environment are most likely to partake in risky behaviors (problem behaviors syndrome). Sometimes cascading effects, doing one bad thing leads to doing other bad things (problem clusters). Internalizing: depressed kids likely to be depresses, panic, phobias, obsessional thinking, suicidal ideation, eating disorders. Be able to discuss evidence for and reasons why so many psychological problems co-vary with one another. Sometimes based on biology as well as environment. They are normally all caused by distress so internalizing disorders are likely to occur together. Negative emotionality is an indicator for depression, anxiety disorders and other internalizing problems. The problem clusters seem to define why externalizing happens a lot together. Discuss the use of substances in adolescence from the text and the presentation in class. Most kids use alcohol, then marijuana, then tobacco products.
