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Chapter Summary
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Learning Objectives
Chapter 1
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- How psychological disorders are defined and identified
- Prevalence of psychological disorders
- The relationship between developmental level and psychological disorders
- The relationship between gender and psychological disorders
- Historical influences on understanding psychological disorders
- Current study and practice of abnormal child and adolescent psychology
Chapter 2
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- Paradigms, theories, and models in the study of psychopathology
- The developmental psychopathology perspective
- The concept of development
- How causation is variously conceptualized
- Pathways of development
- Aspects of risk, vulnerability, and resilience
- Continuity and change in psychological disorders
- Examples of how normal and abnormal development go hand in hand
Chapter 3
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- Brain and nervous system development, structure, and function
- Pre-, peri-, and postnatal risks to the nervous system
- The genetic context of development, including genetic research
- Basic learning/cognitive processes and their role in development
- An ecological model of sociocultural influences on development
- The family context of development, including maltreatment and divorce
- Influences of peers on development
- Community and societal contexts of development
Chapter 4
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- The aim of science and the roles of observation and measurement
- Reliability and validity of research results
- The case study, correlational methods, the experiment, and single-subject designs
- Cross-sectional, longitudinal, and accelerated longitudinal designs
- Qualitative research
- Ethical issues in research
Chapter 5
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- Processes of classification and diagnosis
- DSM and empirical approaches to classifying psychological problems of youth
- How assessment is conducted and various approaches to assessment
- Various approaches to prevention of problems of youth
- Various modes and strategies of treatment for problems of youth
Chapter 6
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- Internalizing disorders
- How anxiety, fears, and worries are defined and experienced and how anxiety disorders are classified
- Features of each of the different anxiety disorders
- The epidemiology and developmental course of the different anxiety disorders
- Biological and psychosocial influences related to the development of anxiety disorders
- Assessment strategies for a youth presenting with anxiety
- Psychological and pharmacological treatments and prevention of anxiety disorders
Chapter 7
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- How depression has been conceptualized, defined, and classified
- The epidemiology and developmental course of depression
- Biological and psychosocial influences on the development of depression
- Assessment of depression
- Approaches to treating and preventing depression
- Mania and the classification of bipolar disorder in youths
- The epidemiology, developmental course, and etiology of bipolar disorder
- Treatment of bipolar disorder
- Suicidal behavior, suicidal risk, and suicide prevention
Chapter 8
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- Various ways externalizing behaviors/conduct problems are described and classified
- Features of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder
- The epidemiology of conduct problems
- Approaches to understanding the developmental course of conduct problems
- Psychosocial and biological influences on the development of conduct problems
- Substance use in youths, its epidemiology, etiology, and developmental course
- Assessment strategies for youths with conduct problems
- Approaches to treating and preventing conduct problems
Chapter 9
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- Evolving ideas about ADHD
- Classification and diagnosis of ADHD, including subtypes
- Features of ADHD and ¬ co-occurring disorders
- The epidemiology and developmental course of ADHD
- Neuropsychological theories of ADHD
- Neurobiological abnormalities of ADHD
- Etiology and a developmental schema of ADHD
- Assessment and intervention for ADHD
Chapter 10
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- Historical definitions of language and learning disabilities
- Normal language development and language disabilities
- Specific disabilities of reading, writing, and mathematics
- Social and motivational problems concerning language and learning disabilities
- Brain abnormalities in language and learning disabilities
- Etiology of language and learning disabilities
- Assessment and intervention for language and learning disabilities
- Educational services
Chapter 11
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- AAIDD and DSM conceptualizations and classifications of ID
- The nature and measurement of intelligence and adaptive behavior
- Disabilities, characteristics, and co-occurring problems of youths with ID
- The epidemiology and developmental course of ID
- Organic, multigenic, psychosocial, and multifactor etiology
- Down, Fragile X, Williams, and Prader-Willi syndromes
- Family accommodations and experiences
- Assessment of intelligence and adaptive behavior
- Approaches to prevention and intervention
Chapter 12
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- The historical association of schizophrenia and other pervasive disorders of youth
- Classification, diagnosis, description, and other aspects of autism
- Etiology of autism
- Other autism spectrum disorders and pervasive developmental disorders
- Assessment and intervention for autism spectrum disorder
- Classification, diagnosis, description, and other aspects of schizophrenia
- Etiology of schizophrenia
- Assessment and intervention for schizophrenia
Chapter 13
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- Classification of the elimination disorders of enuresis and encopresis
- Etiology of elimination disorders and their treatment
- Common sleep problems and the description and classification of sleep disorders
- Treatment of sleep problems
- Early feeding and eating problems and disorders
- Influences on the development of and interventions for obesity
- The definition and classification of eating disorders
- The epidemiology and developmental course of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
- Biological, psychosocial, and cultural influences on the development of eating disorders
- Treatment and prevention of eating disordered behavior
Chapter 14
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- How the interface between psychology and medicine is conceptualized
- Psychological and family influences on the course of medical conditions such as asthma
- Psychological adjustment to chronic illnesses
- Challenges faced by youths and families in adapting to chronic illnesses such as cancer
- Psychological contributions to facilitating medical treatment
- Challenges in assisting a dying child and his or her family
Chapter 15
After reading this chapter, you should be able to discuss:
- Effects of nonparental care and self-care on children
- Facts and issues regarding adoption and foster care
- Specific needs for better mental health services for youth
- Efforts to provide mental health services for youth
- Specific adversities experienced by children in developing countries