PSYC 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reuptake, Borderline Personality Disorder, Joint Attention

• School: University of Arkansas
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2003
• Professor: Maegan Calvert

Document Summary

Medical model psychological disorder an illness that, like physical illnesses, have biological and environmental causes, de ned symptoms, and possible cures the issue: symptoms overlap in di erent disorders. Continuous categorical each disorder is distinct and has de ning characteristics method currently used is a dsm 5. Dsm a classi cation system that describes the features used to diagnose each recognized mental disorder and indicates how the disorder can be distinguished from other similar problems. Rdoc classifying disorders based on the underlying process rather than the signs and symptoms used in the dsm. The developping of disorders bio-psycho-social perspective mental disorders are the result of interactions among biological, psychological and social factors diathesis-stress model a person may be predisposed for a psychological disorder that remains unexpressed until triggered by stress. 28% of people would have met criteria for a disorder in the past year.