PSYC 1030H Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1030H
• Professor: Barbara Bond

Document Summary

Medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviour as a disease: brought improvements in the treatment of those who exhibited abnormal behaviour. Diagnosis involves distinguishing one illness from another. Etiology refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis a forecast about the probable course of an illness. Dsm-5: changes and continuing challenges: some categories were deleted, some new ones added, and others were reorganized and dimensional ratings were added, comorbidity the coexistence of two or more disorders. Epidemiology the study of the distribution of mental or physical disorders in a population. Prevalence refers to the percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period. Obsessive-compulsive disorder: obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) marked by persistent, distressing way uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and urges to engage in senseless rituals (compulsions, thoughts that repeatedly intrude on one"s consciousness in a.