Abnormal Child Psychology: Chapter 10
(Depression) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. All-or-Nothing - ANSWER-Seeing matters in "black or white". If you fall quick of
ideal, you notice your self as a total failure
2. Aspects of Depression - ANSWER-• Cognitive deficits:
- Problematic poor thoughts
3. Catastrophizing - ANSWER-You exaggerate the importance of occasions & cause
them to appear an awful lot worse than they truely are
4. Comorbidity - ANSWER-• Co-occurrence of two or greater issues
• Up to 90% of kids with despair also have every other disease
- Most common: anxiety issues
• Children with MDD & a comorbid disease:
- multiplied chance for a repeat depressive episode
- higher quotes of suicide
Depression
5. 2 Definitions: - ANSWER-• Can be a symptom
- Feeling sad or miserable
• Can be a sickness
- Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
- Dysthymic Disorder
6. Depression & Adolescents - ANSWER-• Although maximum depressed teenagers
will recover, they remain at high chance for later mood problems, at the side of:
- Committing crimes
- Getting arrested
- Dropping out of college
- Being unemployed
- Later substance abuse
- Marital issues
- Health issues
- Suicide
7. Depression & Ethnicity - ANSWER-• Multiple studies locate that minority youngsters
(African American, Hispanic, Asian American) have higher fees of despair than
white kids
• How lots of this reflects ethnicity? How a lot is poverty?
8. Depression & Gender - ANSWER-• Age 6-thirteen: identical prices of depression for
boys & women
• 14 & older: girls two times much more likely to be depressed
9. Developmental Aspects of Depression - ANSWER-Displays of sadness:
• Infant: turns into passive & unresponsive
• Preschooler: becomes withdrawn & inhibited, somber, & tearful
(Depression) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. All-or-Nothing - ANSWER-Seeing matters in "black or white". If you fall quick of
ideal, you notice your self as a total failure
2. Aspects of Depression - ANSWER-• Cognitive deficits:
- Problematic poor thoughts
3. Catastrophizing - ANSWER-You exaggerate the importance of occasions & cause
them to appear an awful lot worse than they truely are
4. Comorbidity - ANSWER-• Co-occurrence of two or greater issues
• Up to 90% of kids with despair also have every other disease
- Most common: anxiety issues
• Children with MDD & a comorbid disease:
- multiplied chance for a repeat depressive episode
- higher quotes of suicide
Depression
5. 2 Definitions: - ANSWER-• Can be a symptom
- Feeling sad or miserable
• Can be a sickness
- Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
- Dysthymic Disorder
6. Depression & Adolescents - ANSWER-• Although maximum depressed teenagers
will recover, they remain at high chance for later mood problems, at the side of:
- Committing crimes
- Getting arrested
- Dropping out of college
- Being unemployed
- Later substance abuse
- Marital issues
- Health issues
- Suicide
7. Depression & Ethnicity - ANSWER-• Multiple studies locate that minority youngsters
(African American, Hispanic, Asian American) have higher fees of despair than
white kids
• How lots of this reflects ethnicity? How a lot is poverty?
8. Depression & Gender - ANSWER-• Age 6-thirteen: identical prices of depression for
boys & women
• 14 & older: girls two times much more likely to be depressed
9. Developmental Aspects of Depression - ANSWER-Displays of sadness:
• Infant: turns into passive & unresponsive
• Preschooler: becomes withdrawn & inhibited, somber, & tearful
