Identify two benefits and two drawbacks of clinical classification specific to the field of developmental psychopathology
What will be an ideal response?
• Benefits – enhances clinical utility; helps with emergence of particular disorders as well as prognosis and treatment; aids in communication; improves research efforts, publications, and revision of thinking about a particular disorder
• Drawbacks – loss of individual information; stereotypes all children with a particular disorder
• Developmental psychopathology – stereotypes children; disorders in children might be transient; self-fulfilling prophecy
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A) easier intelligence tests B) the use of culture-free tests C) more experience taking tests D) early childhood educational programs
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A) daily hassles. B) personality dispositions. C) cognitive appraisals. D) mental models.