[PSY3171] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (85 pages long)
30 Mar 2017
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What comes to mind: mental illness, abnormal psychology mental disease. Personal distress/impairment: creates distress or causes the individual suffering. Psychological dysfunction: impairment in some area in life. Dsm-5: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm, behavioural, psychological/biological dysfunctions are unexpected in cultural context and, person experiences distress, impairment, or risk of suffering, death, impairment, pain. Is mental illness a myth: thomas szasz the myth of mental illness. Fundamental difference between physical disease and mental illness. Objective versus subjective criteria: https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=zqegsqyhuze. Mental health professionals: clinical psychology ph. d. Learning objectives: compare and contrast categorical versus dimensional concepts of mental illness, know the historical antecedents of our current nosological system, understand the current framework of the diagnostic and statistical manual, discuss current controversies associated with the dsm-5. What makes a good classi cation system: reliability. Inter-rater reliability sensitivity: speci city, validity.
