lecture 1 *DPP*

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whatis mental illness?
disturbances of behaviour, feelings and thought
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what is stigma ?
composed of stereotypes , prejudice and discrimination (multiple levels : public , perosnal , self stigma ( or internalized stigma )
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what is psychopathology ?
intense , frequent and or persistent abnormal patterns of **emotion, cognition and behaviour**
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what is developmental psychology ?
Emphasizes that different patterns occur in the context of normal development and may lead to current and future problems in infants, children and adolescents
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what is prevelence ?
proportion of population with a disordder ( number of current cases)
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what is indicidence ?
the rate at which new cases arise ( all new cases in a given time period)
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what is adaptation ?
abillity to adjust to new informztion and expiriences. Trough adaptation , we are able to adopt new behaviours that allow us to cope with change
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what is resilince ?
adaptation or competence despite adversities
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what is risk ?
incresed vulnerability to disorder
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what is a risk factor ?
individual , family , social characteristics that are associated with this increased vulnerability
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what are protective factors ?
individual , family , social characterisitcs that are associated with this positive adaptation
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what barires are there to mental health ?
1. structural
2. preceptions of psychological problems
3. perceptions of mental health and child welfare
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what structural bariers to mental health are there ?
long waiting lists , high costs
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what psychological perceptual probelma are there ?
denial or desbelif
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what child mental health perception problems are there ?
lack of confidence in system and negative expirinces
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what are the staistics of treatable mental dieses ?
80% is treateble

20% of children will expirience life long difficulties
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what types of normality are there ?
1. statistical divergence
2. socio cultural standards
3. mental health care definitions
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what are statistical divergences ?
too much or too little statistically abnormalities
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what are socicultural standards ?
he beliefs and expectations of certain groups about what kind of emotions , cogntions, behaviur and unacceptable
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what are meantal health care definitions ?
DSM5) clinically based judgements of distress and dysfucntion
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what does mental health imply ?
positive quality of life

function well at home, at school and in society

have no symptoms of pshycopathology
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what are the 4D's of abnormality ?
1. dysfunctiona
2. distress
3. deviance
4. danger
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what are the basic theoretical models ?
1. physiological models
2. psychodynamic models
3. behavioural and cognitive models
4. humanistic models
5. family or systematic models
6. sociocultural models
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what are the physicological approach ?
physiological mase of all psychological processes and events :

*structural / functional

*biological

*chemical
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what models do we find in the physiological approach ?
1. diathesis stress model
2. genes and environment model
3. connectome model
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what are diathesis ?
diathesis : predisposition : physiological vulnerabilities such as genetic defects, structural pathology and biochemical dsiturbances
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what is stress ?
stress: physiological or form enviornment

*the interaction of stess and diathesis may lead to development of a disorder
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what correlations do we find in physiological approach ?
1. passive correlations
2. active correlations
3. evocative correlations
4. gene by environment interactions
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what are passive correlations ?
children are exposed to different environenmts proevided by their genetically related oarents
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what are active correlations ?
child select or create their own environments as a fuction of theor gentic backgroud
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what are evocative correlations ?
child expirince different reactions or respomsnses to their genetically influnced emotions or behaviours
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what are gene by environemnt interactions?
involve differential ensitivity or suspctability to envirements or expirinces
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what does the connectome model assume?
localization vs holistic view of the brain (development)
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what is a connectome ?
diagram of the brain's neural conncetions
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what is the psychodynamic model ?
subconscious cognitive, affective and motivational processes

mening of individual , subjective expiriences
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who invented the psychodynamic model ?
Freud
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what part of life doe the psychodynalic model look at ?
development of personality problems and childhood psychilogical challanges during againg

mental representation of selve
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based on what cognitive abilities does the psychodynamic model work ?
subconscious cognitive, affective and motivational processes
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what are the emphesys in the behavioural and cognitive models ?
normal and devian tbehaviour learned ( calssical conditioning , operant conditioning, observatioanl learning )
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which part of the person is studied in CBT?
individual's observable behaviou in specific environment

learning deficits or defects in learning process
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what is the humanistic model ?
looks at personal meaningfull expirinces
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what is the motivation behind the humanistic model ?
motivation of early growth

motivation of positive slef image

suppresion of needs
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what is one criticism brought to the humanistic model ?
could be overly optimistic
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what are the family models?
understanding the personalty of a child based on the dynamics in the family
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what does the famaily model take into consideration ?
considering both sharing and non sharing suroundings of the family
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how are patients of family models diagnosed ?
diagnostics and therapy based on the child within the family
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whta is the sociocultural model ?
components of ecological models at home , neighbourhood and school
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what is the social context ?
including gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic status
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what is the birth cohort ?
people born in a particular historical period share key experiences and events
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what is the Bronfen Brenner model ?
"Children's development is embedded in multiple settings,environments, and systems"
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what do developmental pathways show ?
they include patterns of adjustment and poor adjustment over time

changes in interactions / transactions across lifespan with sorundings
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what are the implications of developmental pathways ?
*changes can happan at many point

*change is constrined or enabled by previus adaptations
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what is multifinality ?
same initial conditions lead to varius outcomes in developmental pathways
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what is equifinality?
varius initial conditions lead to corresponding outcomes
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what competences do children have ?
**ability to adapt** to the environment and to take normal developmental steps

**areas of confort** child dispays domains of competence
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what is resilince ?
adaptation or competence despite adversities
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what are the properties of resilince ?
no universal , categorical or fixed property → changes over time and situations
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what connections does relisince have to protective triad ?
child features ( intelligence )

family attributes ( secure relationship)

environment characterisitcs ( good school)
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where do we see commony mental health problems. ?
in deprivated families

in negelcted family / abusive

insuffcint care

who had a low birh weight

mental health problems in parents
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what is an unspecific risk ?
increased vulnerability to any, or many kinds of disorders

( maltreatment predicts a negative develpopment in the short term and long term )
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hat is a specific risk ?
**increased vulnerability to a particular disorder.**

( presence of inactive enzyme predicts development of intelctual diasbility )
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what risk factors are ther ?
1. within child
2. within family
3. within other family relationships
4. within comunirties
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what rish factors within child are there?
cognitive abilities , easy temperament , good self regulation
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what within family risk factors are there ?
close relationship , authoritive family , positive family climate
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what within other family relationship factors are there ?
close relationships with competent and supportive adult , connections to prosocial and rule abiding peers
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what within comunities risk factors are there ?
effective schools , ties to prosocial organisities, neighbourhood
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what are protective factors ?
factors that reduce impact of risks ,reduce negative chain reactions that follow exposure to risk
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