Childhood: Clinical and School Psychology – Lecture summary (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM)

This bundle contains all the lectures of the course "Childhood: Clinical and School Psychology" given at the University of Amsterdam. The following material is included:

Lecture 1
Wilmhurst (2015) - Chapter 1; 2; 3

Lecture 2
Wilmhurst (2015) - 7

Lecture 3
Wilmhurst (2015) – Chapter 5; Patterson (2016)

Lecture 4
Wilmhurst (2015) – Chapter 9; Neil, Moum, & Sturmey (2014)

Lecture 5
Wilmhurst (2015) – Chapter 4; Jessurun, Shearer, & Weggeman (2016); Subotnik, Olszewski-Kubilius & Worrell (2011); Renzulli (1978); Van Nieuwenhuijzen & Vriens (2012)

Lecture 6
Cline et al. (2000); Stevens et al. (2003); Van Gelderen et al. (2004); Van de Vijver, Fons, & Phalet (2004)

Lecture 7
Wilmhurst (2015) – Chapter 6; De Smetd & Gilmore (2011); Landerln et al. (2009); Norton & Wolf (2012)

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Childhood: Clinical and School Psychology – Lecture 1 (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM)

A case formulation refers to a hypothesis about why the problem behaviour exists and how it is maintained. This should be based on the longevity of the problems (1), consistency of problematic behaviour across situational contexts (2) and family history (3). Problematic behaviour is characterized by the four d’s:

Deviance from

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Childhood: Clinical and School Psychology – Lecture 2 (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM)

Fear refers to the emotional response to real or perceived immediate threat. Anxiety refers to the anticipation of future threat. Phobia refers to being fearful or anxious about or avoidant of a certain object or situation. There is no specific cognitive ideation.

There are four symptoms of anxiety:

Emotional symptoms
This includes an anxious

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Childhood: Clinical and School Psychology – Lecture 3 (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM)

About 5% of the children and 2.5% of the adults are diagnosed with ADHD. There are several requirements for a diagnosis:

There are at least six symptoms for at least six months. For people older than 17 years old, there need to be five or more symptoms.
The symptoms are present before the 12th

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Childhood: Clinical and School Psychology – Lecture 4 (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM)

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with five criteria:

Persistent deficits in social communication or social contact across multiple contexts
1. Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity (i.e. visible in toddlers)
  1. Strange way of making contact.
  2. Reduced sharing of interests, pleasure, emotions or affect.
  3. Inability to initiate and

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Childhood: Clinical and School Psychology – Lecture 5 (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM)

The WISC-IQ test measures the following:

It measures how well somebody can learn.
It measures what somebody knows.
It measures what somebody can do.
It assesses what a person’s strong skills are.
It assesses what a person’s weak skills are.

The focus of an IQ

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Childhood: Clinical and School Psychology – Lecture 6 (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM)

Multilingualism refers to speaking multiple languages. It is not just a technical task which only requires a cognitive dimension as it also has emotional, social and cultural significance. There are three dimensions for describing people’s associations with the languages they speak:

Expertise
This refers to the degree of proficiency in a language.
Affiliation

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Childhood: Clinical and School Psychology – Lecture 7 (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM)

Specific learning disabilities are detrimental to one’s well-being. The repeated academic failure associated with this continues to haunt people for years after formal schooling.

A specific learning disability originally included a discrepancy-based definition. This included a discrepancy between IQ and achievement (e.g. high IQ, low reading achievement). However, the degree of

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