PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Prototype Theory, Emil Kraepelin, Behavioral Addiction
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Is a condiion normal or abnormal: deviance (staisical, moral, distress (self and/or others, dysfuncion (inability, eiciency, maladaptaion, danger (self and/or others) Is a person ill or evil? (disorder or sin) Deiniional theory of meaning . semanic deiniions of mental disorders. Repeated exposure to condiions perceived as necessitaing mental health intervenion i: personal and indirect (books, ilms, tv) experiences in which people are seen to have iii) unwanted condiions requiring mental health intervenion. Signs + symptoms. syndrome f: syndrome + course disease, why diagnose at all, prognosis, treatment implicaions, communicaion among professions, establish prospects for contagion or other transmission, and possible prevenion, legal reasons (e. g. competence, insanity determinaions) f, research. Financial reasons (compensaion to paient and/or treatment provider: problems inherent in the act of diagnosis, sacriices the uniqueness of individual paient, can falsely imply eiology (cause, rigidiies treatment alternaives d, sigmaizaion. Iatrogenic illness (the healer causes the illness: two kinds of diagnosis, phenotypic.
