PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bipolar Disorder, Inter-Rater Reliability, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Possible written: no clear cut de nition, but criteria for what a mental disorder is. Not all infrequent conditions are caused by a mental disease. Moral treatment: treated patients with dignity, respect, and kindness. Prior to this patients were traded horribly in asylums such as being tied in chains. Modern era: thorazine drug was introduced - tentatively decreased symptoms of schizophrenia and similar problems, with advent of other medications and constitutional reasons, policy of deinstitutionalization. Deinstitutionalization : releasing patients into the community and closing mental hospitals. Unstructured clinical judgment - multiple choice: before 1966 it was assumed professional could asses risk well, came down to their credibility as an expert. These people were trusted because they had knowledge regarding brain and development: they would make the assumption that if treatment worked on one person it"ll work on everyone. Tuesday, april 5, 2016: professional discretion - know difference between the three, lack of guidelines, lacks consistency.
