SOC 014 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Deviant Behavior: American Psychiatric Association, Medical Model, Labeling Theory

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 014
• Professor: Lutz F Kaelber

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Mental disorders present a much more formidable definitional problem because it is not a type of behavior. Instead, mental disorder is a set of conditions that exhibits itself in a wide range of behaviors. The american psychiatric association issues a standard reference work comma the. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm: the dsm-v it should be expected to be a good place to find a coherent framework for. It"s 1st edition was released in 1952 and its 5th edition was released in 2014 understanding mental disorder, but it is not define mental disorder. Clinicians insist that mental disorders exist on a continuum but that does not mean that disorders cannot be diagnosed. Bizarre and inappropriate behaviors exhibited by mentally disordered people are symptoms of an underlying pathology of some kind. They suggest that certain environmental factors have little independent significance. Influence of extra psychiatric factors is due to the vagueness of psychiatric diagnosis.