Paper 4.1(A): Childhood Disorders
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| Introduction
Defining the disorders of infancy, childhood and adolescence, Psychopathology and Developmental Psychopathology Models of child psychopathology: Physiological, Psychodynamic, Behavioural and Cognitive, Humanistic, Family, Socio-cultural Assessment and Diagnosis in Children and Adolescents: nature, techniques of assessment: interview, standardized tests, observation Interventions in Children and Adolescents: Primary, secondary and tertiary intervention; Working with children, parents and families, Working with schools and communities Child Personality Inventory Describe current perspectives on anxiety and depression during childhood |
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| Neurodevelopmental disorders
Intellectual disability: types according to severity of intellectual disability, symptoms, causal factors, management ADHD and tic disorder: prevalence, symptoms, causal factors, management Autism spectrum disorder: types, prevalence, symptoms, causal factors, management Specific Learning Disability: types, prevalence, symptoms, causal factors, management Prepare a management program of a mentally retarded child History of autism and its management |
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| Other Child and Adolescent Psychopathologies
Anxiety and Mood disorders: Separation anxiety disorder, Selective Mutism, Phobia, Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder- symptoms, causal factors, management Elimination disorders: Enuresis, encopresis- symptoms, causal factors, management Disruptive, impulse-control and conduct disorders: types, prevalence, symptoms, causal factors, management Problems with onset in late Childhood or Adolescence; Eating disorders, Substance Use disorders: types, prevalence, symptoms, causal factors, management Behavior therapy of a child with ADHD Conduct disorder and family relationships |
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Syllabus Books:
- Parritz, R., & Troy, M. (2013).Disorders of childhood: Development and psychopathology. Nelson Education
- Sadock, B.J. &Sadock, V.A. and Ruiz, P. (2015). Kaplan &Sadock’s Synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th. Ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- American Psychiatric Association. (2013).Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5 TM). American Psychiatric Pub.
Reference Books:
- Beauchaine, T. &Hinshaw, S. (2017). Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. NY: Wiley.
- Cicchetti, D. (2016). Developmental Psychopathology, Vol. 3 & 4. NY: Wiley.