Development & Psychopathology
{"Image DocumentName": "Development & Psychopathology", "Image ImageDescription": "Diagnosis is different with youth. Unique disorders. Unique presentations of common disorders. Diagnostic clarity is rarer. Setting-specific problems. Symptom overlap across disorders. High comorbidity rates. Interactions with normal development. Developmental Psychopathology (Dante Cicchetti) Symptoms = Exaggerations of normal development. Symptoms interact with development in complex ways. Psychopathology is dimensional. So far, we have been discussing the complexity of normal adolescent development. Of course, many of the youth passing through the JS have issues that go beyond interference in their normal development. Add in the issue of psychopathology and things get more complicated very quickly! DIAGNOSTICS. Some Disorders are more commonly diagnosed among youth than adults (e.g., PDD; FAS; Language Disorders) Other Disorders have unique presentations in youth (e.g., prevalence of irritability in depression \u2013 arguments about Bipolar) Diagnostic clarity is often limited: True symptom overlap among disorders (anger and irritability in behavior and affective disorders; distractibility in attentional and depressive disorders) Much higher rate of comorbiidity of disorders among youth than adults \u2013 problems tend to cluster \u2013 e.g., PTSD and Depression \u2013 long Dx lists. Interactions between symptoms of disorders and normal development. Development can impact: the. characteristics of disorders. most appropriate label and conceptualization of problems \u2013 tantrums at 9 understood differently that tantrums at 15. impact. Developmental Psychopathology: Symptoms of disorders result from adaptational compromises or failures in normal development. Once they develop, these symptoms continue to interact with patterns of normal development \u2013 so stability and trajectory of problems not always clear. Therefore, pathology is better understood as lying on a dimension between normal and pathological \u2013 no clear lines. Classification systems can suggest a clear distinction between pathology and normality; typically a dimensional issue. DSM and the Medical Model", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}