PSYCH 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Agnosia, Abnormal Psychology, Toilet Training
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Fetuses and newborn children eliminate waste products reflexively. As children develop and undergo toilet training, they develop the ability to inhibit the natural reflexes that govern urination and bowel movements. For some children, however, problems with control elimination persist in the form of enuresis and encopresis, disorders of elimination that are not due to organic causes. Derives from the greek roots en- meaning in and ouron, meaning urine . Failure to control urination after one has reached the expectable age for attaining such control. Estimated to affect 7% of boys and 3% of girls by age 5. Treatment expression of hostility toward the children"s parents. Psychodynamic explanations of enuresis suggest that it represents the. It may represent regression in response to the birth of a sibling or some other. Learning theorists point out that enuresis occurs most commonly in children stressor or life change whose parents attempted to train them early.
