This bundle contains all the lectures included in the course "Clinical Developmental & Health Psychology" given at the University of Amsterdam. The lectures include the articles. The following is included:
Lecture 1 (Evolution and development of disorders) |
Lecture 2 (Infant cognition) |
Lecture 3 (Diagnostics and treatment of anxiety) |
Lecture 4 (Development of ADHD) |
Lecture 5 (Mindful parenting) |
Lecture 6 (Treatment of ADHD) |
Lecture 7 (Development of addiction) |
Lecture 8 (Intervention and addiction in adolescence) |
Lecture 9 (Development of dyslexia) |
Lecture 10 (Intellectual disability) |
Lecture 11 (School psychology) |
Lecture 12 (Self-regulation and executive functions) |
Lecture 13 (Development of stress) |
Lecture 14 (Cognitive ageing) |
People with a mental disorder tend to have higher mortality and have lower reproductive success.
The paternal age effect refers to increased risk of a mental disorder when the father is older when he has the child. It is possible that females with mental disorders have higher reproductive success than males with a mental disorder because
........Read moreIt is important to study infants as this might help predict outcomes later in life. Early development lays the foundation for later life (e.g. malnutrition in infancy can lead to obesity in later life). Early trauma has cascading effects. It is possible that cognitive processes can be predicted by using outcomes in infancy. Early intervention and prevention are
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There are different types of responses to increased anxiety:
Anxiety disorder includes an overactivation of the amygdala
........Read moreADHD is classified by two symptom clusters:
Additional criteria for ADHD diagnoses is that the symptoms should be pervasive (i.e. symptoms should persist in more than one setting) (1), the symptoms should lead to impairment (2) and at least some of the symptoms should be present before the age of 12
........Read moreMindfulness refers to being deliberately aware of the present moment without judgement. Mindfulness is a relatively new intervention and was mostly rejected when it was first introduced.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) refers to an 8-week treatment employing mindfulness to reduce stress in participants. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) refers to a mindfulness-based therapy aimed at participants with a
........Read moreEvidence-based treatment refers to the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. A practitioner can know what the best current evidence is by making use of guidelines. However, the guidelines only demonstrate what type of treatment is recommended for specific disorders but do not necessarily provide information
........Read moreIn the past, addiction was seen as a choice and under full control of the addicted person. The addict was seen as a transgressor engaged in morally wrong behaviour. The inability to control the use of substances was seen as the core of addiction. There is physical and psychological dependence. In the past, the measurement of addiction consisted
........Read moreThe intervention spectrum includes promotion (1), prevention (2), treatment (3) and maintenance (4). It is used to determine what needs to be done as an intervention.
Intervention and prevention lead to positive health outcomes. However, there is not always an obvious distinction. Intervention is namely also a form of prevention (e.g. preventing the condition from getting worse).
........Read moreDyslexia refers to an unexpected reading failure. A child with poor reading skills in a negative environment is to be expected but a child with poor reading skills in a favourable environment is unexpected. This could be indicative of dyslexia.
There are common behaviours of someone with dyslexia:
An intellectual disability refers to people with an IQ below 55. A mild intellectual disability refers to a people with an IQ between 55 and 70. A mild to borderline intellectual disability refers to people with an IQ between 70 and 85. However, they only qualify as borderline intellectual disability if they also show limited adaptive functioning.
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A school psychologist needs to take the environment into account when assessing the development of a child.
Action-oriented assessment refers to a theory about how assessment should be done. This should be as goal-oriented as possible. The problems of the child should be specifically assessed and which interventions are needed to help the child.
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Self-regulation refers to the ability to flexibility activate, monitor, inhibit, persevere and adapt one’s behaviour, attention, emotions and cognitive strategies in response to direction from internal cues, environmental stimuli and feedback from others in an attempt to attain personally relevant goals. It is the same as executive functioning. All executive functions require the prefrontal cortex which keeps maturing
........Read moreStressors refer to stimuli and context (e.g. losing a job). It is not the individual response to a stressor. There are positive stressors (1), tolerable stressors (2) and toxic stressors (3).
A positive stressor has the least impact on health (e.g. getting married). A stressor leads to change and can thus be positive. Toxic stressors are highly
........Read morePathological ageing refers to ageing that differs from its normal course (e.g. dementia). There are several symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
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