PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Dissociative Disorder, Mental Disorder, Anxiety Disorder

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

Document Summary

Apply the three-prong test to idenify the presence of a mental disorder. Describe the ways genes and environment interact to produce mental disorders (i. e. , diathesis- stress model) Describe how the behaviour of people with psychological illness is maladapive. Describe the classiicaion system of the diagnosic and staisical manual of mental disorders (dsm-5) and the pros and cons of this classiicaion system. Describe anxiety, ocd, ptsd, somaic-related, and dissociaive disorders. Explain the nature and evoluionary purpose of anxiety. To make a diagnosis the individual"s symptoms must cause her distress or impair her abiliies to funcion in daily life. An individual cannot be diagnosed with a mental disorder if the sole cause of his distress or impairment is external to him (that is, in his environment). An individual cannot be diagnosed with a mental disorder if their behaviour is voluntary. Internal factors: are factors that are driven from within.