Chapter 1 Understanding Abnormal Child Psychology

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Chapter 1 Understanding Abnormal Child
Psychology
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Historical Views of Child Psychopathology

• The Emergence of Social Conscience
• John Locke
• Jean-Marc Itard (Victor Wild Boy of Aveyron)
• Psychiatric Disorder vs. Mental Retardation
• Lunatic vs. Imbecile
• Moral insanity vs. organic disease

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Historical Views (cont.)

• Early Biological Attributions
• Individual deficit-focused
• Segregation Eugenics
• Early Psychological Attributions
• Psychoanalytic theory
• Behaviorism

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Defining Psychological Disorders

• Disorder
• pattern of behavioral, cognitive, or physical
  symptoms, that is associated with one or more of
  
• distress
• disability
• increased risk for further suffering or harm
• Competence Developmental Tasks

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Defining Psychological Disorders (cont.)

• Importance of relationships
• Labels Language
• Abnormal child versus abnormal or unusual
  circumstances

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Multifinality vs. Equifinality
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Risk and Resilience

• Risk
• risk factors increase the chances of negative
  outcomes (community violence, family break-up,
  chronic poverty, parental inadequacies/
  psychopathology, perinatal stress)
• Resilience
• The ability to function despite adversity
• not a fixed attribute
• protective triad of the child, the family, and
  school/community

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Significance of Childrens Mental Health Problems

• 1 in 5 children has a significant mental health
  problem
• 1 out of 5 children with mental health issues
  will have significant difficulties throughout
  their lives
• 75 of children who require mental health
  services do not receive them
• Mental health problems remain unevenly
  distributed (remember risk factors)

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What Affects Rates and Expression of Mental
Disorders?

• Poverty and Socioeconomic Disadvantage
• Sex Differences
• Ethnicity
• Culture
• Maltreatment and Trauma
• 1 out of 3 children age ten to sixteen experience
  physical/sexual abuse

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