PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Truancy, Psychopathy
29 Sep 2015
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Mental disorders are usually associate with significant distress or disability in social, occupational or other important activities. : mental disorders have a great overlap that defines construct and its gonna be syndrome that we will be having for each because there is not just one symptom for any disorder, comorbidity = when there is more than one disorder present. Its more likely that comorbidity is present: symptomology that most predicts disorder in the real world is the cognitive symptoms inability to concentrate, we don"t prescribe to only one paradigm when it comes to causation, distress or disability: sometimes when an individual has a disorder they might still be able to go about their business and that"s when things get controversial, critiques: normal people also feel sad and depressed does this mean we are psychopathologizing too much? http://www. huffingtonpost. com/2013/05/15/dsm 5 mental health psychiatric manual _n_3281434. html, ab normalizing psychopathology.
