Clinical psychology involves the integration of science, theory, and clinical knowledge to understand and relieve psychologically-based distress. Central to the field are psychological assessment and psychotherapy. The field began in 1896 with the opening of the first psychological clinic and has since developed to include two educational models, the PhD scientist-practitioner model and the PsyD practitioner-scholar model. Clinical psychologists now provide psychotherapy, psychological testing, and diagnosis of mental illness.
The document provides a brief overview of the history and administration of the Rorschach inkblot test. It discusses how the test was developed in 1921 by Hermann Rorschach and outlines the basic process of administering and scoring the test. Key aspects include recording verbatim responses, analyzing clusters of psychological features, and using a search order to interpret the full personality profile provided by the test. The document emphasizes that the full value of the Rorschach relies on considering all available data from the test.
This document discusses major and mild neurocognitive disorders. It defines neurocognitive disorders as involving cognitive decline and impairment, with mild disorders having slight decline in one function and major disorders having severe decline in one or more functions. It lists several types of neurocognitive disorders including Alzheimer's disease, vascular disorders, frontotemporal disorders, and disorders due to traumatic brain injury, Lewy bodies, Parkinson's disease, prion diseases, and substance abuse. Symptoms vary but include memory loss, confusion, impaired language and motor skills. Treatment involves testing, medication, and psychosocial support.
DSM - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
It is the handbook used by health care professionals as an authoritative guide to the diagnosis of mental disorders.
Clinical psychology involves the integration of science, theory, and clinical knowledge to understand and relieve psychologically-based distress. Central to the field are psychological assessment and psychotherapy. The field began in 1896 with the opening of the first psychological clinic and has since developed to include two educational models, the PhD scientist-practitioner model and the PsyD practitioner-scholar model. Clinical psychologists now provide psychotherapy, psychological testing, and diagnosis of mental illness.
The document provides a brief overview of the history and administration of the Rorschach inkblot test. It discusses how the test was developed in 1921 by Hermann Rorschach and outlines the basic process of administering and scoring the test. Key aspects include recording verbatim responses, analyzing clusters of psychological features, and using a search order to interpret the full personality profile provided by the test. The document emphasizes that the full value of the Rorschach relies on considering all available data from the test.
This document discusses major and mild neurocognitive disorders. It defines neurocognitive disorders as involving cognitive decline and impairment, with mild disorders having slight decline in one function and major disorders having severe decline in one or more functions. It lists several types of neurocognitive disorders including Alzheimer's disease, vascular disorders, frontotemporal disorders, and disorders due to traumatic brain injury, Lewy bodies, Parkinson's disease, prion diseases, and substance abuse. Symptoms vary but include memory loss, confusion, impaired language and motor skills. Treatment involves testing, medication, and psychosocial support.
DSM - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
It is the handbook used by health care professionals as an authoritative guide to the diagnosis of mental disorders.
A presentation on the newly introduced cross-cutting symptom measures in DSM5. I'd made this as part of my psychiatry residency, and the article describes why the need came about, the process of formulating and testing the new cross-cutting system and the repercussions this will have on psychiatric practice
- The document discusses dual diagnosis, which is when a person has both a substance misuse issue and a mental health disorder. It is common for the causes and symptoms to overlap.
- Dual diagnosis is a major issue, with around 3/4 of prisoners and 75-80% of drug/alcohol service users also experiencing mental health problems. Only 62% of drug users with mental health issues receive treatment.
- Having both a substance use disorder and mental illness leads to worse health outcomes and difficulties accessing care. The document advocates for services to better coordinate and meet people's full range of needs.
Social cognition refers to how people process and respond to social information. It involves interpreting social cues, analyzing social situations, and remembering social information using mental structures called schemas. Schemas help organize our knowledge about social roles, people, and events. When making judgments with limited time and information, people rely on mental shortcuts called heuristics. However, social cognition is not always rational and can involve errors like unrealistic optimism and counterfactual thinking.
This document provides an overview of abnormal psychology and perspectives on defining mental disorder. It discusses defining mental disorder based on statistical deviation, dysfunction, personal discomfort, maladaptive behavior, and norm/value violation. Challenges with each perspective are outlined. The DSM-IV definition emphasizes distress, disability, or increased risk. Cross-cultural issues are also reviewed, depending on whether a biomedical or culturally-based view is taken of what constitutes disorder.
Cognitive distortions are the everyday errors that we make in translating the thoughts, ideas, and things we see around us, using words. These are 10 of the top cases of distorted thinking that we have all made, at one time or another. melaniecgallo.com
This item is rated based on the patient's efforts to resist obsessions, not on success or failure in actually controlling obsessions.
1 = Tries to resist most of the time
2 = Makes some effort to resist
3 = Yields to all obsessions without attempting to control them, but does so with some reluctance
4 = Completely and willingly yields to all obsessions
Q: How much of an effort do you make to resist the obsessive thoughts? Do you try to resist them? How often? Or do you experience them without making any effort to resist?
0
1
2
3
4
5. DEGREE OF CONTROL OVER OBSESSIVE THO
Personality disorders assessment & treatmentRobert Rhoton
The document discusses personality disorders and their causes. It notes that personality disorders were previously attributed solely to internal deficits, but are now understood to result from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Environmental factors like childhood trauma, abuse, and an unstable family environment can interrupt normal development and contribute to personality disorders. The document also describes different memory and cognitive systems in the brain and how they relate to stress responses and trauma.
Has extensive training in psychoanalytic theory and
techniques; provides intensive long-term therapy focusing on
unconscious conflicts and early childhood experiences
Types of Therapists
38 of 53
Psychotherapy: Treatment of mental disorders through
verbal communication between a trained therapist and a
client
Goal: Help clients gain insight into problems and change
maladaptive behaviors, emotions, and thought patterns
Types of Psychotherapy
39 of 53
Psychoanalysis: Developed by Sigmund Freud; focuses on
unconscious conflicts, early childhood experiences, and
dreams
Long-term, intensive therapy involving free association and
interpretation of transference
Not widely used today due to its length and expense
Psy
Psychoeducation involves educating patients and families about mental health conditions to help them better understand and manage the illness. It has roots in movements from the early 20th century and has been shown to improve outcomes. Psychoeducation can be delivered individually, to families, or in groups. It covers topics like the nature of the illness, treatment, and how to prevent relapse. Various models exist including providing information, teaching skills, and being supportive. Psychoeducation has benefits for conditions like schizophrenia, depression, and eating disorders.
This document provides information about personality disorders as categorized in the DSM-5. It discusses 10 specific personality disorders separated into 3 clusters: odd/eccentric, dramatic/emotional/erratic, and anxious/fearful. For each cluster, it describes some representative disorders and their diagnostic criteria. It notes that personality disorders typically emerge in adolescence/early adulthood and can be difficult to treat. The document also discusses issues with the categorical approach to personality disorders and limitations in reliability and validity. It provides some information about prevalence, risk factors, differential diagnosis, and treatments for several specific disorders.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a traumatic event involving threat of injury or death. Symptoms include nightmares, flashbacks, avoidance of trauma-related stimuli, and increased arousal. Risk factors include female gender, lack of social support, and pre-existing mental health conditions. Treatment involves trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, family therapy, medication, and alternative therapies like EMDR. Screening tools assess trauma exposure and PTSD symptoms to help identify affected individuals.
Adler was an Austrian psychiatrist born in 1870 who was among the founders of the psychoanalytic movement but later broke away to form his own school called Individual Psychology. He is best known for concepts like the inferiority complex and striving for superiority. Adler believed that feelings of inferiority in childhood motivate people to compensate through developing a lifestyle and fictional goals to gain significance. Key aspects of Adler's theory included birth order influences, social interest in cooperation, and parenting styles like pampering or neglect.
Freud discusses three types of anxiety: realistic anxiety related to real external threats, moral anxiety from feelings of guilt or shame from one's superego, and neurotic anxiety from threats to the ego from one's id. Defense mechanisms help reduce anxiety by coping with threats in an unconscious way, such as denial, repression, reaction formation, projection, rationalization, intellectualization, displacement, sublimation, undoing, introjection, and regression. Parapraxes like Freudian slips occur when unconscious thoughts or feelings leak out in mistakes or accidents. Humor can allow sublimation of impulses in a harmless way.
Moral injury is a construct that describes the psychological and social aftermath of acts that violate moral or ethical beliefs, especially in war. It differs from PTSD in that it results from perceived transgressions rather than fear or life-threatening events. Veterans experience moral injury from acts they commit or witness that conflict with their moral codes. They have higher suicide rates than civilians, possibly due to lasting effects of moral injury. Moving forward, advocates recommend increasing public awareness of moral injury, funding research on its relationship to PTSD and treatment options, and considering moral injury impacts before future wars.
This document summarizes a presentation on grief therapy given by Dr. Susan Stuber. It discusses research on normal grief versus complicated grief, assessments of complicated grief, debates around including prolonged grief disorder in the DSM-V, and additions related to grief in the DSM-5. The presentation covers critiques of Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief model, analyses of criteria for complicated or prolonged grief proposed by Prigerson and Shear, and risk and protective factors for complicated grief.
Humanistic therapies focus on self-development, growth, and helping individuals recognize their strengths and potential. The humanistic approach developed in response to limitations in behaviorism and psychodynamic theories. Key aspects of humanistic theories include an emphasis on self-actualization as a drive towards fulfilling one's potential, and unconditional positive regard for oneself and from others. The goal of humanistic therapy is to help clients achieve self-realization and promote constructive forces in human nature.
This document discusses childhood trauma and its lasting impacts. It defines trauma and notes that childhood trauma is common, with over 25% of children experiencing some form of violence. Chronic childhood trauma is particularly damaging because it disrupts neurodevelopment and attachment during critical periods. The lasting impacts of childhood trauma include difficulties with emotion regulation, relationships, self-perception, and physical and mental health issues like depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and medical disorders. Treatment focuses on stabilization, processing traumatic memories, and reintegration. Resources are provided to help trauma survivors.
The Bender Gestalt Test (BGT) is a screening tool developed in 1938 to assess visual-motor and visuoconstructive abilities. It involves copying simple line drawings and is used to evaluate neurological and developmental deficits. The test demonstrates good reliability, with interscorer reliability for errors ranging from .87 to .90. Validity is also good as an indicator of perceptual-motor development, with error scores decreasing with age. While brief, economical, and flexible to administer, the BGT provides only limited information about specific brain damage and lacks a universally accepted scoring system.
Anna Freud was Sigmund Freud's daughter who expanded psychoanalysis in several ways. She focused on studying children through her work establishing clinics for child analysis. Her research emphasized understanding ego defenses and how the ego functions. This helped establish the field of ego psychology, which views the ego as more than just serving the id and explores its independent functions. She made important contributions to analyzing children and standardized clinical records that helped establish psychoanalysis as a more empirical discipline.
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A presentation on the newly introduced cross-cutting symptom measures in DSM5. I'd made this as part of my psychiatry residency, and the article describes why the need came about, the process of formulating and testing the new cross-cutting system and the repercussions this will have on psychiatric practice
- The document discusses dual diagnosis, which is when a person has both a substance misuse issue and a mental health disorder. It is common for the causes and symptoms to overlap.
- Dual diagnosis is a major issue, with around 3/4 of prisoners and 75-80% of drug/alcohol service users also experiencing mental health problems. Only 62% of drug users with mental health issues receive treatment.
- Having both a substance use disorder and mental illness leads to worse health outcomes and difficulties accessing care. The document advocates for services to better coordinate and meet people's full range of needs.
Social cognition refers to how people process and respond to social information. It involves interpreting social cues, analyzing social situations, and remembering social information using mental structures called schemas. Schemas help organize our knowledge about social roles, people, and events. When making judgments with limited time and information, people rely on mental shortcuts called heuristics. However, social cognition is not always rational and can involve errors like unrealistic optimism and counterfactual thinking.
This document provides an overview of abnormal psychology and perspectives on defining mental disorder. It discusses defining mental disorder based on statistical deviation, dysfunction, personal discomfort, maladaptive behavior, and norm/value violation. Challenges with each perspective are outlined. The DSM-IV definition emphasizes distress, disability, or increased risk. Cross-cultural issues are also reviewed, depending on whether a biomedical or culturally-based view is taken of what constitutes disorder.
Cognitive distortions are the everyday errors that we make in translating the thoughts, ideas, and things we see around us, using words. These are 10 of the top cases of distorted thinking that we have all made, at one time or another. melaniecgallo.com
This item is rated based on the patient's efforts to resist obsessions, not on success or failure in actually controlling obsessions.
1 = Tries to resist most of the time
2 = Makes some effort to resist
3 = Yields to all obsessions without attempting to control them, but does so with some reluctance
4 = Completely and willingly yields to all obsessions
Q: How much of an effort do you make to resist the obsessive thoughts? Do you try to resist them? How often? Or do you experience them without making any effort to resist?
0
1
2
3
4
5. DEGREE OF CONTROL OVER OBSESSIVE THO
Personality disorders assessment & treatmentRobert Rhoton
The document discusses personality disorders and their causes. It notes that personality disorders were previously attributed solely to internal deficits, but are now understood to result from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Environmental factors like childhood trauma, abuse, and an unstable family environment can interrupt normal development and contribute to personality disorders. The document also describes different memory and cognitive systems in the brain and how they relate to stress responses and trauma.
Has extensive training in psychoanalytic theory and
techniques; provides intensive long-term therapy focusing on
unconscious conflicts and early childhood experiences
Types of Therapists
38 of 53
Psychotherapy: Treatment of mental disorders through
verbal communication between a trained therapist and a
client
Goal: Help clients gain insight into problems and change
maladaptive behaviors, emotions, and thought patterns
Types of Psychotherapy
39 of 53
Psychoanalysis: Developed by Sigmund Freud; focuses on
unconscious conflicts, early childhood experiences, and
dreams
Long-term, intensive therapy involving free association and
interpretation of transference
Not widely used today due to its length and expense
Psy
Psychoeducation involves educating patients and families about mental health conditions to help them better understand and manage the illness. It has roots in movements from the early 20th century and has been shown to improve outcomes. Psychoeducation can be delivered individually, to families, or in groups. It covers topics like the nature of the illness, treatment, and how to prevent relapse. Various models exist including providing information, teaching skills, and being supportive. Psychoeducation has benefits for conditions like schizophrenia, depression, and eating disorders.
This document provides information about personality disorders as categorized in the DSM-5. It discusses 10 specific personality disorders separated into 3 clusters: odd/eccentric, dramatic/emotional/erratic, and anxious/fearful. For each cluster, it describes some representative disorders and their diagnostic criteria. It notes that personality disorders typically emerge in adolescence/early adulthood and can be difficult to treat. The document also discusses issues with the categorical approach to personality disorders and limitations in reliability and validity. It provides some information about prevalence, risk factors, differential diagnosis, and treatments for several specific disorders.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a traumatic event involving threat of injury or death. Symptoms include nightmares, flashbacks, avoidance of trauma-related stimuli, and increased arousal. Risk factors include female gender, lack of social support, and pre-existing mental health conditions. Treatment involves trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, family therapy, medication, and alternative therapies like EMDR. Screening tools assess trauma exposure and PTSD symptoms to help identify affected individuals.
Adler was an Austrian psychiatrist born in 1870 who was among the founders of the psychoanalytic movement but later broke away to form his own school called Individual Psychology. He is best known for concepts like the inferiority complex and striving for superiority. Adler believed that feelings of inferiority in childhood motivate people to compensate through developing a lifestyle and fictional goals to gain significance. Key aspects of Adler's theory included birth order influences, social interest in cooperation, and parenting styles like pampering or neglect.
Freud discusses three types of anxiety: realistic anxiety related to real external threats, moral anxiety from feelings of guilt or shame from one's superego, and neurotic anxiety from threats to the ego from one's id. Defense mechanisms help reduce anxiety by coping with threats in an unconscious way, such as denial, repression, reaction formation, projection, rationalization, intellectualization, displacement, sublimation, undoing, introjection, and regression. Parapraxes like Freudian slips occur when unconscious thoughts or feelings leak out in mistakes or accidents. Humor can allow sublimation of impulses in a harmless way.
Moral injury is a construct that describes the psychological and social aftermath of acts that violate moral or ethical beliefs, especially in war. It differs from PTSD in that it results from perceived transgressions rather than fear or life-threatening events. Veterans experience moral injury from acts they commit or witness that conflict with their moral codes. They have higher suicide rates than civilians, possibly due to lasting effects of moral injury. Moving forward, advocates recommend increasing public awareness of moral injury, funding research on its relationship to PTSD and treatment options, and considering moral injury impacts before future wars.
This document summarizes a presentation on grief therapy given by Dr. Susan Stuber. It discusses research on normal grief versus complicated grief, assessments of complicated grief, debates around including prolonged grief disorder in the DSM-V, and additions related to grief in the DSM-5. The presentation covers critiques of Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief model, analyses of criteria for complicated or prolonged grief proposed by Prigerson and Shear, and risk and protective factors for complicated grief.
Humanistic therapies focus on self-development, growth, and helping individuals recognize their strengths and potential. The humanistic approach developed in response to limitations in behaviorism and psychodynamic theories. Key aspects of humanistic theories include an emphasis on self-actualization as a drive towards fulfilling one's potential, and unconditional positive regard for oneself and from others. The goal of humanistic therapy is to help clients achieve self-realization and promote constructive forces in human nature.
This document discusses childhood trauma and its lasting impacts. It defines trauma and notes that childhood trauma is common, with over 25% of children experiencing some form of violence. Chronic childhood trauma is particularly damaging because it disrupts neurodevelopment and attachment during critical periods. The lasting impacts of childhood trauma include difficulties with emotion regulation, relationships, self-perception, and physical and mental health issues like depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and medical disorders. Treatment focuses on stabilization, processing traumatic memories, and reintegration. Resources are provided to help trauma survivors.
The Bender Gestalt Test (BGT) is a screening tool developed in 1938 to assess visual-motor and visuoconstructive abilities. It involves copying simple line drawings and is used to evaluate neurological and developmental deficits. The test demonstrates good reliability, with interscorer reliability for errors ranging from .87 to .90. Validity is also good as an indicator of perceptual-motor development, with error scores decreasing with age. While brief, economical, and flexible to administer, the BGT provides only limited information about specific brain damage and lacks a universally accepted scoring system.
Anna Freud was Sigmund Freud's daughter who expanded psychoanalysis in several ways. She focused on studying children through her work establishing clinics for child analysis. Her research emphasized understanding ego defenses and how the ego functions. This helped establish the field of ego psychology, which views the ego as more than just serving the id and explores its independent functions. She made important contributions to analyzing children and standardized clinical records that helped establish psychoanalysis as a more empirical discipline.
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The rising international trend in the number of parents who separate or divorce is raising concerns about long-term consequences for child and youth well-being and adjustment to adulthood.
Separation and divorce may increase risks for negative outcomes in physical, mental, educational and psychosocial well-being during childhood and later, as youth transition to adulthood. Most children of separated and divorced families do not have significant or diagnosable impairments.
Most children and youth experience initial painful emotions including sadness, confusion, fear of abandonment, anger, guilt, grief, and conflicts related to loyalty and misconceptions. Although many children and youth of separating or divorcing parents experience distressing thoughts and emotions, the overwhelming majority do not experience serious outcomes. However, even small negative effects constitute a serious public health problem when multiplied by the millions of individuals who experience separation or divorce.
Due to the effect of the divorce on the kids, they tend to be stubborn and are wild and erratic in behavior which is usually harmful to the children. It affects their daily relationship, academics, and personal lives.
Divorce can increase the risk of mental health problems in children and adolescence. Regardless of age, gender, and culture, studies show children of divorced parents experience increased psychological problems. Divorce may trigger an adjustment disorder in children that resolves within a few months. But, studies have also found depression and anxiety rates are higher in children from divorced parents.
According to our research conducted, children of divorced parents scored significantly lower than children of continuously married parents on measures of academic achievement, conduct, psychological adjustment, self-concept, and social relations. More recent research continues to suggest an ongoing gap between children of divorced parents and continuously married parents. The negative impact of divorce can reach into adulthood and even later in adult married life, with potential increases in poverty, educational failure, risky sexual behavior, unplanned pregnancies, earlier marriage or cohabitation, marital discord, and divorce
The extent to which the negative outcomes associated with parental divorce reflect dysfunctional processes that arise before parental separation, such as interparental conflict.
This document contains a summary of the contents of the PSYCH 500 Entire Course, which includes documents, assignments, discussions, and resources for various topics related to lifespan development. The course covers areas such as developmental profiles, field research, interviews with senior citizens, moral development, papers on significant topics, adolescent development, weekly discussion questions, case studies, portfolio presentations, and more. It also provides the instructions and requirements for completing assignments and a link to access the full course materials.
This document provides an overview of hypothesis formulation in research methods in psychology. It defines a hypothesis as a tentative and testable statement about the possible relationship between two or more variables. It discusses the importance of formulating clear and testable hypotheses to guide research. The main types of hypotheses are the null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis. The document outlines considerations for formulating good hypotheses, such as operationalizing variables and reviewing relevant literature. Challenges in hypothesis formulation include a lack of theoretical frameworks or evidence. Errors in hypothesis testing can occur through faulty sampling, measurement, study design, or statistical analysis.
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Acne is a common skin condition that occurs when hair follicles become clogged with oil and dead skin cells. It typically manifests as pimples, blackheads, or whiteheads, often on the face, chest, shoulders, or back. Acne can range from mild to severe and may cause emotional distress and scarring in some cases.
**Causes:**
1. **Excess Oil Production:** Hormonal changes during adolescence or certain times in adulthood can increase sebum (oil) production, leading to clogged pores.
2. **Clogged Pores:** When dead skin cells and oil block hair follicles, bacteria (usually Propionibacterium acnes) can thrive, causing inflammation and acne lesions.
3. **Hormonal Factors:** Fluctuations in hormone levels, such as during puberty, menstrual cycles, pregnancy, or certain medical conditions, can contribute to acne.
4. **Genetics:** A family history of acne can increase the likelihood of developing the condition.
**Types of Acne:**
- **Whiteheads:** Closed plugged pores.
- **Blackheads:** Open plugged pores with a dark surface.
- **Papules:** Small red, tender bumps.
- **Pustules:** Pimples with pus at their tips.
- **Nodules:** Large, solid, painful lumps beneath the surface.
- **Cysts:** Painful, pus-filled lumps beneath the surface that can cause scarring.
**Treatment:**
Treatment depends on the severity and type of acne but may include:
- **Topical Treatments:** Such as benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid, or retinoids to reduce bacteria and unclog pores.
- **Oral Medications:** Antibiotics or oral contraceptives for hormonal acne.
- **Procedures:** Such as chemical peels, extraction of comedones, or light therapy for more severe cases.
**Prevention and Management:**
- **Cleanse:** Regularly wash skin with a gentle cleanser.
- **Moisturize:** Use non-comedogenic moisturizers to keep skin hydrated without clogging pores.
- **Avoid Irritants:** Such as harsh cosmetics or excessive scrubbing.
- **Sun Protection:** Use sunscreen to prevent exacerbation of acne scars and inflammation.
Acne treatment can take time, and consistency in skincare routines and treatments is crucial. Consulting a dermatologist can help tailor a treatment plan that suits individual needs and reduces the risk of scarring or long-term skin damage.
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1. Risk Factors of Psychopathology
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Community Level
Risks
Family Level
Risks
Individual Level
Risks
• Both physical and emotional considerations are relevant. Examples: atypical
genetic polymorphisms, deficits in perception and high levels of generalized anxiety.
• Variable possibilities for adaptation exist, but for a trait or condition to be
considered a risk factor, there must be a demonstrated increase in the probability
of subsequent emotional or behavioural disorder associated with the factor.
• A classic example of a familial risk factor is a parent with a serious mental illness. It
is difficult to define the mechanism by which this risk is transmitted. Each parent
provides exactly one-half of the genome of the child. However, parents are also in a
powerful position to shape the early environment of their children.
• The full range of family risk factors is quite broad, and extends beyond the influence
of single individuals within the family to include the impact of family dynamics,
which influence the development of the child.
• Example, a scapegoated child in a family environment that tolerates overt child
maltreatment is at particularly high risk for the development of psychopathology.
• Social Disadvantage and Discrimination based on ethnic or racial status fall under
community level risks.
• Quantification of this risk has been problematic, though there is little controversy
about the negative consequences of discrimination and poverty. This is because
community risk factors rarely occur in the absence of individual and familial risk
factors, making it difficult fully to understand their specific influence.
Risk Factor Model is a paradigm that facilitates the understanding of developmental deviations.
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2. Developmental Causes of Psychopathologies
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Developmental
Causes
1
Biological
2
Psychosocial
3
Sociocultural
There are different viewpoints regarding
causal factors of psychopathologies, each
representing one of the many approaches
to study human behaviour such as
biological, behavioral, psychodynamic,
psychosocial and sociocultural. None of
them completely explains abnormal
behaviours. Therefore, integrative
evaluation of these viewpoints is
essential.
Cognitive, emotional and behavioural symptoms of
psychological disorders originate from disorders of
nervous system and endocrine system or they are
inherited.
Psychosocial Causes include
factors such as Parental
Deprivation and Separation,
Childhood Traumas, Parental
Psychopathology, Parenting
Styles, Inadequate
Communication, and
Disrupted Family
Relationships
Several factors in the
sociocultural environment
may increase vulnerability
such as low socio-economic
class, disorder-engendering
social roles, prejudice and
discrimination, economic and
employment problems and
social change and
uncertainty.
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Biological
Causes
1
Genetic
Vulnerabilities
2
Neuro-
Endocrine
System
Disorders
3
Physical
Handicaps
4
Early Physical
Deprivation
Cognitive, emotional and behavioural
symptoms of psychological disorders
originate from disorders of nervous system
and endocrine system or they are inherited.
Some of these causes are operative during
pre-natal and post-natal developmental
stages, such as genetic vulnerabilities,
constitutional liabilities and physical
deprivation.
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2.1.1. Genetic Vulnerabilities (1/3)
Behavioural Genetics
• Behaviour genetics is the study of individual differences in behaviour that are attributable in part to
differences in genetic makeup. How we look, feel and behave is predetermined by our genetic makeup.
• Genetic information is transmitted from father and mother to a child in the chromosomes. The genes
transmit a biochemical code, which is responsible for determining the structure and activity of the body’s
protein. This genetic code leads to physiological and physical differences like height, colour of eyes, etc.
Genotype and Phenotype
Genotype
• The total genetic makeup of an individual,
consisting of inherited genes, is referred to as the
genotype (physical sequence of DNA), which is an
individual’s unobservable genetic constitution.
• The genotype is fixed at birth, but it should not
be viewed as a. static entity. Genes controlling
various features of development switch off and
on at specific times to control various aspects of
development.
Phenotype
• Phenotype is any observable trait or behavioural
characteristic resulting from the expression of an
organism’s genes, the influence of environmental
factors, and is generally viewed as the product of
an interaction between the two.
• The phenotype changes over time.
• Example: an individual may be born with the
capacity for high intellectual achievement, but
whether he or she develops this genetically given
potential depends on such environmental factors
as upbringing and education. Hence, any measure
of intelligence is best viewed as an index of the
phenotype.
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2.1.1. Genetic Vulnerabilities (2/3)
Genes and environments work together. Life
experience shapes how genes are expressed, and the
genes guide behaviours such as the sensitivity or
reaction to an environmental event. Adoption studies
are used for studying gene–environment interaction.
Research: Intelligence and Environment
• A study by Turkheimer et al confirmed the
relation between intelligence and environment.
• A number of studies have demonstrated high
heritability for IQ (Plomin, 1999). What Turkheimer
et al. (2003) found, though, was that heritability
depended on environment.
• The study included 319 twin pairs of 7-year-olds
(114 identical, 205 fraternal). Many of the children
were living in families either below the poverty
line or with a low family income.
• Among the families of lower socioeconomic
status (SES), 60 percent of the variability in
children’s IQ was attributable to the environment.
• Among the higher SES families, the opposite was
found. That is, variability in IQ was more
attributable to genes than environment.
• Thus, being in an impoverished environment may
have deleterious effects on IQ whereas being in a
more affluent environment may not help all that
much.
Research: Antisocial Personality Disorder and Environment
In one study, three groups of adoptees were compared on
the criteria of Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD):
1. Adoptees who had a biological parent with APD and
were raised in an unhealthy adoptive family (e.g., abuse,
parental conflict, alcohol/drugs in the adoptive family),
2. Adoptees who had a biological parent with APD but
were raised in a healthy family; and
3. Adoptees who had no biological parent with APD but
were raised in an unhealthy adoptive family.
It was found that adoptees of the first group were more
likely to develop APD than the two other groups of adoptees
(Cadoret et al., 1995).
Thus, genes (APD biological parent) and environment
(unhealthy adoptive family) worked together to increase the
risk for developing antisocial personality disorder.
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Mental Disorders and Phenotype
• The various mental disorders are
disorders of the phenotype, not of
the genotype.
• It is, therefore, incorrect to speak of
the direct inheritance of
schizophrenia or anxiety disorders. At
most, only the genotypes – and,
thus, predisposition or diathesis,
for these disorders can be
inherited, not the disorder itself.
• Whether these genotypes will
eventually engender the phenotypic
behaviour disorders will depend on
environment and experience.
A genetic diathesis is a tendency that
can be expressed or not depending on
environmental circumstances.
Research: Depression and Environment
• In one longitudinal study, a large sample of children in New Zealand
was followed from the age of 5 until mid-twenties (Caspi et al., 2003).
• The researchers assessed a number of variables, including early
childhood maltreatment (abuse) and depression as an adult. They also
measured a particular gene called Serotonin Transporter Gene (5-
HTT) which has a polymorphism such that some people have two short
alleles; some have two long alleles, and some have one short and one
long allele.
• They found that individuals who had either the short-short allele or the
short-long allele combinations of the 5-HTT gene and were maltreated
as children were more likely to have depression as adults, than either
those people with same gene combination but no childhood abuse or
those people with childhood abuse but different gene combination.
• Thus, having the gene was not enough to predict depression, nor was
presence of early life stress. It was the specific combination of gene
configuration and environmental events that predicted depression.
• They found the same gene–environment interaction for having at least
one short allele of the gene and reports of stressful life events.
• That is, those people who reported a good deal of stressful life events
and had at least one short allele of the 5-HTT gene were at greater
risk of developing depression.
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2.1.2. The Neuro-Endocrine System
Neuro-Endocrine System, Stress and Psychopathology
• Neuro-endocrine system plays an strong role in
psychopathology. HPA axis is the most important neuro-
endocrine system. It is central to the body’s response to
stress, and stress figures prominently in many of the
psychological disorders.
• HPA = Hypothalamus – Pitutiary – Adrenal Cortex.
• Studies in this area are fairly integrative. They begin with
a psychological concept – stress, and examine how
stress is manifested in the body, the HPA axis.
− Example: in a series of animal studies, researchers
have shown that rats and primates exposed to early
trauma, such as separation from their mothers, show
elevated activity in the HPA axis when they are
exposed to stressors later in life (Gutman & Nemeroff,
2003).
• Biology-environment interactions can be viewed as
similar to gene–environment interactions - biology may
create increased reactivity to the environment, and
early experiences may influence biology.
• Chronic stress and its effects on HPA axis are linked to
disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, and PTSD.
How the body responds to stress
• When under stress or faced with threat, the
hypothalamus causes corticotrophin
releasing hormone (CRF) to be released,
which then communicates with the pituitary
gland.
• The pituitary then releases adreno-
corticotropic hormone, which travels via the
blood to the adrenal glands. The outer layers
of the adrenal glands are referred to as the
adrenal cortex.
• This is not a fast moving system like the
autonomic nervous system rather; it takes
about 20 to 40 minutes for cortisol release to
peak.
• After the stress or threat has remitted, it can
take up to an hour for cortisol to return to
baseline (i.e., pre-stress) levels (Dickerson &
Kemeny, 2004).
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2.1.3. Physical Handicaps
Low Birth Weight
• Pre or post-natal abnormalities or
environmental conditions may result in
physical defects.
• Low birth weight is the most common birth
issue associated with mental disorders later in
life. It is most often a factor in premature
births.
• Nutritional deficiencies, disease, exposure to
radiation, drugs, severe emotional stress, or
excessive use of alcohol or tobacco by the
mother are some common causes of low birth
weight.
• As might be expected, socio-economic status
is related to fetal and birth difficulties, the
incidence of which is several times greater
among mothers of lower socio-economic
levels (Kopp & Kaler, 1989).
• Because low birth weight is often associated
with so many environmental adversaries, it is
often difficult to disentangle which actually
pay a causal role in the negative outcomes
that may result.
Injuries and Diseases
• Through a remarkable set of complex
processes, our digestive, circulatory, and other
bodily functions work to maintain our body’s
physiological equilibrium integration.
• However, injuries and diseases strike all of
us from time to time and upset our normal
equilibriums, the psychological repercussion
from such events can be profound.
• Depressions, for example, frequently
accompany significant physical illnesses, in
part because illnesses painfully remind us of
the limits of our control over our lives.
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2.1.4. Early Physical Deprivation (1/2)
Even without serious illness or disability, people may experience challenges to their equilibriums. Two
situations causing this are deprivation of basic physiological needs and non-optimal levels of stimulation.
1. Deprivation of Basic Physiological Needs
• The most basic human needs are those for food, oxygen, water, sleep, and the elimination of wastes.
• Chronic, even relatively mild, sleep deprivation can have adverse emotional consequences in children and
adolescents. (see Literature Review)
• Prolonged food deprivation also affects psychological functioning. (See Research) The worst impact of
deprivation is seen in malnourished young children. Severe malnutrition is associated with potentially
damaging variables such as parental neglect and limited access to health care. It impairs physical
development, lowers resistance to disease, blocks brain growth resulting in markedly lowered intelligence
and enhanced risk for disorders such as ADD (Lozoff, 1989).
Literature Review: Lack of Sleep
• In an extensive review of the empirical literature Carskadon (1990)
demonstrated that over the course of adolescence there is a
pattern of decreasing total sleep time.
• This pattern was associated with increase in daytime sleepiness.
• She argued that the performance lapses that are associated with
excessive sleepiness, could in turn lead to an increased
vulnerability to accidents and to the use of caffeine and alcohol,
and to mood and behaviour problems.
Research: Food Deprivation
• Keys et al (1950), in a study, found
that semi-starved persons became
irritable, unsociable, and increasingly
unable to concentrate on or
daydream about anything but food.
• Men’s predominant mood was gloom
and depression, accompanied by
apathy, feelings of inadequacy, and
loss of interest in sex.
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2. Deprivation of Stimulation and Activity
• Healthy mental development depends on a child’s receiving adequate amounts of
stimulation from the environment. In addition to psychological vulnerabilities that
can be induced by too little stimulation, the physical development of the brain is
adversely affected by a lesser environmental stimulation.
• Biological development is enhanced by enriched and complex environment. These
include changes in brain chemistry and structure.
• On the other hand, there are limits to how much stimulation is beneficial to a
developing organism. Sensory overload can impair adult functioning. We might
assume that infants and children are similarly affected.
• In general, individuals seem to each have an optimal level of stimulation and
activity required for proper psychological functioning.
− When over stimulated, we may strive to reduce some of the environmental
stimulation.
− When under stimulated, we may try to increase stimulation. Those with higher-
than average need for excitement may face boredom. They may strive to
increase the level of stimulation by doing something engaging, such as antisocial
personalities do.
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Psychosocial
Causes
1
Parental
Deprivation and
Separation
2
Childhood
Traumas
3
Parental
Psychopathology
4
Parenting
Styles
5
Inadequate
Communication
6
Disrupted
Family
Relationships
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Impact of Separation from Parents
Bowlby (1973) summarized the traumatic effects
of separation from parents during prolonged
periods of hospitalisation on 2-5 years old
children.
Short-Term or Acute Effects
• Significant despair during the separation
• Detachment from the parents upon reunion.
• Bowlby considered this to be a normal response
to prolonged separation, even in securely
attached infants.
• Children who undergo such separation may
develop an insecure attachment.
Long Term Effects
…of early separation from one or both parents.
• Increased vulnerability to stressors in adulthood
making it more likely that the person will
become depressed (Bowlby, 1980).
Impact of Parental Deprivation
• Some children are raised in an institution where there is
less warmth and physical contact; less intellectual,
emotional, and social stimulation; and a lack of
encouragement and help in positive learning compared
with an ordinary home.
• Children deprived of normal parenting in infancy and
early childhood show maladaptive personality
development and are at risk for psychopathology.
• However, some children show resilience and do well in
adulthood. One important protective factor was whether
the child went from the institution into a harmonious
family or a discordant one (Rutter, 1990).
• Other influential protective factors were having some
good experiences at school, whether in the form of
social relationship, or athletic or academic success, or
having a supportive marital partner – factors positively
influencing the sense of self-esteem or self-efficacy.
• Institutionalisation later in childhood in a child who has
already had good attachment experience is not so
damaging (Rutter, 1987).
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Impact of Parental Rejection
• Most infants subjected to parental deprivation are not separated from their parents,
but rather suffer from inadequate care at home. In these situations,. parents typically
neglect or devote little attention to their children and are generally rejecting.
• Parental rejection of a child may be demonstrated in various ways: by physical
neglect, denial of love and affection, lack of interest in the child’s activities and
achievements, failure to spend time with the child and lack of respect for the child’s
rights and feeling. In some cases, it also involves cruel and abusive treatment.
• Parental rejection may be partial or complete, passive or active, or subtly or overtly
cruel.
• The effects of such deprivation and rejection may be very serious. Example: Failure To
Thrive (FTT) which is a serious disorder of growth and development frequently
requiring admission to the hospital.
• Such children are thought to be at risk for behaviour problems, delays in development
and severe depression.
• Abused and maltreated infants and toddlers are also quite likely to develop atypical
patterns of attachment (Cicchetti & Toth, 1995) characterised by bizarre, disorganised
and inconsistent behaviour with the caregiver.
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2.2.2. Childhood Traumas
• Such traumas make psychological wounds that may never completely heal.
• As a result, later stress that reactivates these wounds may be particularly difficult for
an individual to handle. This often explains why a person has difficulty with a problem
that is not especially stressful to another.
Psychic
Trauma
The term psychic trauma is used to describe any aversive experience that
had harmful psychological effects on an individual.
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2.2.3. Parental Psychopathology
• It has been found that parents who have various from of psychopathology, including
schizophrenia, depression, anti social personality disorder and alcoholism, tend to have
children who are at heightened risk for a wide range of developmental difficulties.
• While some of these effects have a genetic component, research indicates that
genetic effects cannot account for all of the adverse effects that parental
psychopathology has on children, the influence of the parental condition on their
parenting ability and home/family environment also has a huge role.
• Examples:
• Children of seriously depressed parents are at enhanced risk for disorder
themselves (Cicchetti & Toth, 1995) at least partly because depression makes for
unskilful parenting, notably including inattentiveness to a child’s many needs and
being ineffective in managing and disciplining the child.
• Children of alcoholics have elevated rates of truancy and substance abuse and
greater likelihood of dropping out of school, as well as higher levels of anxiety
and depression and lower levels of self-esteem (Chassin, Rogosch, & Barrera,
1991).
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• Even less extreme differences in parenting styles than those due to various forms of parental
psychopathology can have a significant impact on a child’s development and risk for psychopathology.
• In the past, discipline was conceived of as a method for both punishing undesirable behaviour and
preventing or deterring such behaviour in the future. However, Discipline is now thought of more positively
as providing needed structure and guidance for promoting a child’s healthy growth.
• Parenting styles can be understood as per Baumrind’s classification depicted below:
Authoritarian
Style
Authoritative
Style
Neglectful-
Uninvolved
Style
Permissive-
Indulgent
Style
High Control
Low Control
Low Warmth High Warmth
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Neglectful-Uninvolved Style
• Parents are low both on warmth and on control.
• - This style of parental uninvolvement is associated with
disruptions in attachment during childhood and with
moodiness, low self-esteem and conduct problems later in
childhood (Baumrind, 1991).
• - The children of uninvolved parents also have problems
with peer relations and with academic performance.
Authoritative Style
• Parents are warm, but careful to set clear restrictions and
limits regarding certain kinds of behaviour.
• They allow considerable freedom within certain limits.
• Associated with the most positive early social development,
with the children tending to be energetic and friendly and
showing development of general competencies for dealing
with others and with their environments (Baumrimd, 1975).
• When followed into adolescence in a longitudinal study,
children of authoritative parents continue to show positive
outcomes.
Permissive-Indulgent Style
• Parents are high on warmth and low on discipline/control.
• Associated with impulsive and aggressive behaviour in
children (Baurmind, 1975).
• Overly indulged children are characteristically spoiled,
selfish, inconsiderate and demanding.
• Sears (1961) found that this style was correlated positively
with antisocial and aggressive behaviour.
• They enter into interpersonal relationships readily, but they
exploit people for their own purpose in the same way that
they have learned to exploit their parents.
Authoritarian Style
• Parents are high on control and low on warmth.
• Children tend to be conflicted, irritable, and moody
(Baumrind, 1975).
• In adolescence, these children had more negative outcomes,
with the boys doing particularly poorly in social and
cognitive skills.
• If such parents also use too severe discipline in the form of
physical punishment as opposed to the withdrawal of
approval and privileges, the result tends to be increased
aggressive behaviour on the part of the child.
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2.2.4. Parenting Styles (2/2)
High Control
High Warmth
Low
Control
Low Warmth
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2.2.5. Inadequate Communication
• Parents sometimes fail to foster the information exchange essential for helping the
child develop essential competencies – for example, they might discourage a child
from asking questions.
• Inadequate communication may take a number of forms:
• Parents too busy or preoccupied with their own concerns to listen to their
children and to try to understand the conflicts and pressures they are facing. As a
consequence, these parents often fail to give needed support and assistance,
particularly when there is crisis.
• Parents have forgotten that the world often looks different to a child or
adolescent.
• Rapid social change can lead to a communication gap between generations.
• Faulty communication may take more deviant forms in which messages become
completely garbled because a listener distorts, disconfirms, or ignores a speaker’s
intended meaning.
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2.2.6. Disrupted Family Relationships
Disturbed family structure is an overarching risk factor that increases a child’s vulnerability to stressors. We
look at intact families with significant marital discord and families disrupted by divorce or separation.
Impact of Marital Discord
• In some cases of marital discord or conflict, one or both of the
parents is not gaining satisfaction from the relationship. One
spouse may express feelings of frustration and disillusionment in
hostile ways such as nagging, criticizing, and doing things
purposely to annoy the person.
• Seriously discordant relationship of long standing are likely to be
frustrating, harmful and generally damaging in their effects on
the adults and their children (Emery & Kitzman, 1995).
• Delinquency and a wide range of other psychological problems are
frequent among such children, although it is likely that a
contributing factor here is prior or continuing parental strife.
• More severe cases of marital discord may expose children to one
or more of the stressors: child abuse or neglect, the effects of
living with a parent with a serious mental disorder, authoritarian or
neglectful/uninvolved parenting, and spouse abuse.
• Children are trapped in an unwholesome and irrational
psychological environment. As they grow they may find it difficult
to establish and maintain marital and other intimate relationships.
Impact of Parental Separation
• Divorce can have traumatic effects
on children. Feeling of insecurity
and rejection may be aggravated
by conflicting loyalties and by the
spoiling the children receive while
staying with one of the parents.
• Some children develop serious
maladaptive responses. A number of
studies have demonstrated that
there may be long-term effects of
divorce on adaptive functioning
into adulthood, such as lower
educational attainment, lower
income and lower life-satisfaction.
• The effects of divorce on children
are often more favorable than the
effects of remaining in a home torn
by marital conflict (Emery &
Kitzman 1995).
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Sociocultural
Causes
1
Sociocultural
Environment
2
Pathogenic
Societal
Influences
3
Disorder
Engendering
Social Roles
4
Social Change
and
Uncertainty
Here we understand the role of culture in
affecting an individual’s behaviour patterns.
There are several factors in the social
environment that may increase
vulnerability: low socio-economic class,
disorder-engendering social roles, prejudice
and discrimination, economic and
employment problems and social change
and uncertainty.
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2.3.1. Socio-Cultural Environment
Inheriting Socioculture
• Just as we receive a genetic inheritance,
we also receive a sociocultural
inheritance. One that is the end product
of thousands of years of social evolution.
• Because each group fosters its own
cultural patterns by systematically
teaching its offspring, all its members
tend to be somewhat alike to conform
to certain basic personality types.
• Children reared among head-hunters
become head-hunters; children in
societies that do not sanction violence
learn to settle their differences in
nonviolent ways.
• Thus, more uniform and thorough the
education of the younger members of
a group, the more alike they become.
Subgroups within Sociocultural Environment
• Subgroups within a general socio-cultural environment, such as
family, sex, age, class, occupational, ethnic and religious group
foster beliefs and norms of their own, largely by means of
social roles that their members learn to adopt.
• Example: expected role behaviours exist for a student, a
teacher, an army officer, a priest, a nurse and so on.
• Because most people are members of various subgroups, they
are subject to various role demands, which also change over
time.
• In fact, an individual’s life can be viewed as a succession of
roles - child, student, worker, spouse, parents and senior citizen.
When social roles are conflicting, unclear or
uncomfortable; or when an individual is unable to
achieve a satisfactory role in a group, healthy
personality development may be impaired - just as
it is when a child is rejected by juvenile peer group.
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2.3.2. Pathogenic Societal Influences
Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Abnormal Behavior
• An inverse correlation exists between socio-economic status
(SES) and the prevalence of abnormal behaviour, i.e., the lower
the socio-economic class, the higher the incidence of abnormal
behaviour.
• The strength of the correlation seems to vary with different
types of disorders.
• Example:
• Antisocial Personality Disorder is strongly related to social
class, occurring at three times the rate in the lowest
income category as in the highest income category.
• Depressive disorders occur only about 50 percent more
often in the lowest income category as in the highest
income category (Kessler et al., 1994).
There are many sources of pathogenic social influences.
Some stem from socio-economic factors and other form socio-cultural factors
regarding role expectation and the destructive forces of prejudice and discrimination.
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2.3.3. Disorder Engendering Social Roles
An organised society, even an “advanced” one, sometimes
asks its members to perform roles in which the
prescribed behaviours either are deviant themselves or
may produce maladaptive reactions.
Example: Soldiers who are called upon by their superiors
(and ultimately by their society) to deliberately kill and
hurt other human beings may subsequently develop
serious feeling of guilt. They may also have latent
emotional problems resulting from the horrors commonly
experienced in combat and hence be vulnerable to
disorder.
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2.3.4. Social Change and Uncertainty
• The rate and pervasiveness of change today are different from anything our
ancestors ever experienced. All aspects of our lives are affected—our
education, our jobs, our families, our leisure pursuits, our finances and our
beliefs and values.
• Constantly trying to keep up with the numerous adjustments demanded by
these changes is a source of constant and considerable stress.
• Simultaneously, we confront inevitable crises as the earth’s consumable
natural resources fall off and as our environment becomes increasingly
noxious with pollutants.
• Certain societies have increasing problems with drugs and crime.
• On the contrary, our attempts to cope with existing problems seems to create
new problems that are as bad or worse.
• The resulting despair, demoralisation and sense of helplessness are well-
established predisposing conditions for abnormal reaction to stressful
events (Seligman, 1998).
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