PSYC 168 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eating Disorder, Specific Developmental Disorder, Intellectual Giftedness
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Child psychological disorder: deciding what"s normal and what"s not, atypical behavior is not sufficient to be called a disorder. Intellectual giftedness: boys playing with barbies, goal: Identify,describe classify pd: causes, treat and prevent, advocacy - diff than adults. Disorders according to the apa: clinically significant. Behavior indicators of disorders: time course, developmental delay, regression, go back in time, difficulty persist over time, quantitative indicators, extremely high or low frequency, extremely high or low intensity, qualitative indicators. Inappropriate to the situation: behavior qualitatively different from normal, pooping in a plant. Deviance is always related to cultural standards: shaping normal and abnormal development, back in the days homosexuality was considered as abnormal, defining and labeling abnormality, conceptualizing and explaining problem behavior, treating psychopathology. Role of gender: men & women have different pressures when it comes to eating disorders, prevalent male disorder: externalizing disorders, prevalent female disorder: anxiety disorder, depressive, eating -> internalizing disorders, external problems both decrease over childhood.
