PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Systematic Desensitization, Cognitive Model, Dream Interpretation
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The classification of disorders dsm iv the most complete description of nearly 400 mental disorders and criteria for diagnosing each: assumes psychological disorders are no different from a physical illness. (symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, diagnostic information is represented along 5 dimensions or axes that consider both the person and their life situation. Four components: emotional symptoms: feelings of tension, cognitive symptoms: worry, thoughts about inability to cope, behavioral symptoms: avoid feared situations, decreased task performance, increased startle response, physiological symptoms: increases heart rate, muscle tension, other autonomic arousal symptoms. Dissociative disorders: dissociative amnesia: extensive but selective memory loss following trauma, dissociative fugue: loss of all personal identity, dissociative identity disorder: two or more separate identities, each with own set, cause of memories and thoughts. occurred during childhood (could be a media creation?) is currently unknown and controversial severe emotional trauma that.
