PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Dsm-5, Syphilis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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Psy1102 - lecture chapter 14 - psychological disorders. May 24th, 2013: perspectives in psychological disorders, introduction. In a given year 25% will suffer a mental illness. In a lifetime 46% of people will have suffered an illness. Live in rural areas where help is not available. Start to diagnose selves: de ning psychological disorders. The more infrequent, the more likely to be a psychological disorder. For the person and for the people around them. Problem: some people who are psycho could not care less about the consequences of his actions. Interferes with their ability to carry out ever day tasks: understanding psychological disorders. Sometimes killed or beaten: the medical perspective: Thought that psychological illness may be like a physiologically based illness. Pinel: changed the environment in the asylum. **proof that mental illness is physiologically and biologically based. **there are environmental factors that also need to be taken into consideration: bio-psycho-social perspective.