1. defining what constitutes normal and abnormal for the child age, sex and ethnic and cultural
background
2.identifying the causes and Corrales of abnormal child behaviour
3. making predictions about long-term outcomes
4. developing and evaluating methods for treatment and or prevention - ANS-questions that
emeplify issues in research (4)
people who suffered from mental illenesses were seen be be criminals and they were blamed
for their behavior.
they were not protected as Locke argued - ANS-early biological attributions
* in undersanding child psychology there most be a balance in biological influences and
importand developmental and cultural factors.
* long standing medically residing within the persong led to neglect of the role the persond
surroundings, context and relations
*need for classification of illness
*PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
* BEHAVIORISM - ANS-early psychological attributions
Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations,
resistances, dreams, and transference - and the therapist's interpretations of them - released
previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.
*personality and mental health outcomes had multiple roots - ANS-Psychoanalysis Therapy
efforts to classify psychiatric disorders into descriptive categories
* are essentially nondevelopmental in approaches vs Freudian approaches
* they attempt to find common denomators that describe the manifestations of a disoders at any
age - ANS-nosologies
A theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only
observable behavior