PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Borderline Personality Disorder, Panic Disorder, Anxiety Disorder

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Pearlberg Steven

Document Summary

4 criteria for abnormal, personal distress, dysfunction, non normal social tendencies, disability, medical model: Relating to disease/ arising from disease: psychologist vs. psychiatrist: Psychologist: focus on psychotherapy and treating emotional / mental suffering in patients with behavioral intervention. Psychiatrist: trained medical doctors, prescribe medications, spend time with patients on medication management as course of treatment: dsm-5 : Chronic persist through life impair interpersonal / occupational functioning. Dimensionsional approach: classifying mental disorders that quantify a person"s symptoms or other characteristics of interests. Categorical assessing whether person/ individual has a disorder on basis of symptoms and characteristics that are described as typical of disorder. Base rate: 30% of all americans experience anxiety disorders. Base rate: 30%, 20-25% of people will have anxiety disorder or mood disorder. Differ from panic because certain things/ events cue anxiety whereas panic is uncontrollable. Negative events in life, if parents worry you will worry.