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abnormal child psych (vocabulary (etyology (studying the causes of…

- - - - make predictions about long-term outcomes
      - develop and evaluate methods for treatment and/or prevention
      - identify the causes and correlates of abnormal child behavior
  - - - involve a failure to show expected developmental progress
      - not entirely abnormal
  - - - children should be raised with thought and care, not indifference and harsh treatment
    - - distinguished individuals with mental retardation from psychiatric disabilities
- - - - more likely to be victimized by peers/family
    - - higher rates of psychological disorders
    - - based on parent report
    - - biological
  - - - a male role model
      - structure and rules
      - encouragement of emotional expressiveness
    - - households that combine risk taking and independence
      - support from female caregiver
  - - - children with the same disorder have that disorder due to different influences
        
        pathways leading to any particular disorder are numerous
        
        abnormal development is multiply determined
    - - dynamic interaction
- - - - many influences
        
        resilience goes hand in hand with protective mechanisms
    - - one cause for a specific disorder
      - all children with the same disorder have the same cause
      - simple explanations to any given disorder
    - - increases the likelihood that a negative outcome (disorder) will occur
        
        is present before the negative outcome
    - - good intellectual functioning
      - positive disposition (easy going)
      - self-esteem and -confidence
      - talents and forms of expression
      - faith
      - family
        
        caring parent figure
        
        parenting is authoritative
        
        authoritative vs. authoritarian
        
        economic advantage
        
        extended family support
  - - - various outcomes from the same start
      - early childhood mistreatment
        
        eating disorder
        
        mood disorder
        
        conduct disorder
        
        normal adjustment
    - - different factors to similar outcomes
      - genes for anti-social behavior
        
        conduct disorder
      - deviant peers
        
        conduct disorder
      - crime-ridden neighborhood
        
        conduct disorder
- - - - eating and sleeping
      - mood
  - - - refers to emotional
        
        threshold: when to react
        
        intensity: how much to react
    - - refers to managing emotions
        
        maintaining
        
        inhibiting (stopping)
- - - - answering questions through observation
      - using an objective approach
      - can be replicated
      - follow a recognized process that never ends
- - - - types of research
        
        describe phenomena
        
        descriptive research, what are the core symptoms of ADHD? what types of children are more likely to have ADHD?
        
        explain phenomena
        
        explanatory research, what causes ADHD? what intervention results in improvement of ADHD?
        
        purpose
        
        examine effect of one variable on another variable
        
        related to influences
        
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        related to treatment
        
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        longitudinal research
        
        prospective design
        
        mal-treatment
        
        no mal-treatment
        
        DV = depression
        
        following a group for several years
        
        retrospective design
        
        starting by asking them if they were mal-treated as a child
    - - observation
        
        setting
        
        measurement
        
        naturalistic
        
        laboratory
        
        live vs. recording
      - interview
      - questionnaire
      - ratings
        
        self
        
        parent
        
        teacher
        
        peer
      - standardized test
      - psychophysiological recording
        
        autonomic nervous system activity
        
        heart rate
        
        neuroimaging
        
        static images
        
        CT
        
        MRI
        
        real time images of brain activity
        
        fMRI
        
        PET
      - neuroimaging technique
- - - - what led to the child being brought to a professional? who recommended this to parents? do the parents agree there's a problem?
    - - diagnosis, description of clinical problem, prognosis, intervention planning
        
        causes of problems, and current influences on problems
    - - cognitive = thoughts
      - emotional = feelings
      - behaviors = actions
      - in terms of in tensity, frequency, and severity
      - and influences/causes
    - - categorical
        
        choose one category or a few from many choices
      - dimentional
        
        internalizing
        
        withdrawn/depressed
        
        anxious/depressed
        
        externalizing
        
        destructive
        
        other