Social cognition and developmental psychopathology

Social cognition refers to the capacity to think about others' thoughts, intentions, feelings, attitudes and perspectives and enables us to engage in the activities that humans value most, such as family, friendship, love, cooperation, play, and community. These processes form such an essential and natural part of our functioning as human beings that it is easy to assume that all humanspossess the capacity in equal measure. However, it has been shown by researchover the last 20 years that children with a wide variety of psychiatric disorders have problems in social cognition. For instance, children with autism have clear deficits in thinking what others might be thinking. In contrast, children with psychopathic traits are very good at reading the minds of others, butmay use this knowledge to manipulate or mistreat individuals. This volume brings together for the first time leaders at the intersection of two academic fields: developmental psychopathology (which deals with child psychiatric disorders) and social cognition. By bringing together the two fields in this unique way, readers not only learn much about important disease mechanisms in childhood disorder, but also gain a better understanding about the nature, origins and development of social cognition in general. It is a must-have for all students, researchers, and clinicians interested in both childhood psychiatric disorder and cognitive psychology. INDICE: 1. Introduction, Carla Sharp, Peter Fonagy and Ian Goodyer. Part I- Developmental Disorders. 2. Social cognition and autism spectrum conditions, Simon Baron-Cohen, Ofer Golan, Bhismadev Chakrabarti and Matthew K Belmonte. 3. Social cognition in children with learning disabilities , Michal Shaked and Nurit Yirmiya. 4. Language and theory of mind in atypically developing children: evidence from studies of deafness, blindness and autism , Michael Siegaland Candida C Peterson. Part II - Externalizing Disorders. 5. Social cognition and disruptive behaviour disorders in young children: families matter , Claire Hughes and Rosie Ensor. 6. Social information processing and the development of conduct problems in children and adolescents: looking beneath the surface, Jacquelyn Mize and Gregory S Pettit. 7. Empathic dysfunction in psychopathy, James Blair. Part III - Internalizing Disorders. 8. Social cognition in depressed children and adolescents , Zoe Kyte and Ian M Goodyer. 9. Social cognition and anxiety in children , Robin Banerjee. 10. Social cognition and attachment-related dissorders , Carla Sharp and Peter Fonagy. Part IV - Other Considerations. 11. Attachment, affect-regulation and mentalization: the developmental origins of the representational affective self , Gyorgy Gergely and Zsolt Unoka. 12. Making links between emotion understanding and developmental psychopathology in young children , Marc de Rosnay, Paul L Harris and Francisco Pons. 13. Social cognition and genetics , Thomas C O'Connor and Cathy Creswell. 14. Treatment outcome of childhood disorders: the perspective of social cognition , Peter Fonagy and Carla Sharp

• ISBN: 978-0-19-856918-3
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 496
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés