PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Global Assessment Of Functioning, Parent Management Training, Major Depressive Disorder

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

Document Summary

Syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance on an individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, behavior that reflects a dysfunction in psychological, biological, development processes. Patterns of emotions thought, action considered pathological. Pathological: uncontrolled/ unreasonable, relating to disease/ arising from disease, relating to / used in pathology. Distressing and harmful to self or others. ** college students have a higher rate of psychological disorders (young adults) Comorbid disorders: more than one disorder occurs at same time. Shows improved reliability and validity over time. Diagnosis based on 5 axes or dimensions. 1 in 42 boys 1 in 189 girls. Infancy as don"t make eye contact or like peekaboo. Remain mysterious, show patterns from case to case. Abnormalities in cortical development lead to neurons on surface of cerebral cortex. Learning disorders, communication disorders, motor skills disorders referred to by a mental health professional. Child fails to develop to decree expected for his or her intellectual level in a specific academic, language, motor skill area.