PSY 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 40: Philippe Pinel, World Health Organization, Mental Disorder
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A: according to psychologists and psychiatrists, psychological disorders are marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior. Psychological disorder: a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior. Behaviors are dysfunctional and maladaptive - they interfere with normal day to day life. A: the medical model assumes that psychological disorders are mental illnesses with physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured through therapy, sometimes in a hospital. In the middle ages, strange behaviors were evidence of demonic forces were at work and those with psychological disorders were brutally treated as a means of releasing evil energy. Phillipe pinel in france opposed such brutal treatments and suggested their sickness needed moral treatment . The world health organization launched a chain-free initiative that aims to reform hospitals. Into patient-friendly and humane places with minimum restraints .
