PSYC104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Heritability, Dissociative Disorder, Genetic Predisposition
10 May 2018
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Week 9 – Psychological Problems
Mental Health, Problems & Disorder
• Mental health: state of emotional and social wellbeing
• Mental health problems: emotional and behavioural abnormalities which impair functioning
or cause distress
• Mental disorder: causes significant distress to self or others and impairs functioning (social,
occupational, personal, health)
Emotional Problems Affect Us All
• Lifetime = 53%
• 12 months = 26%
Prevalence Varies With
• Gender
• Age
• Education
• Homelessness
• Incarceration
Definitions of Abnormality
• Statistical infrequency
• Personal distress
• Social or occupational disability
• Violating social norms or a threat to others
DSM 5
• Covers the nature and range of mental illness, psychological disturbance or disorders
o Infant / childhood / adolescent disorders
o Cognitive/organic disorders
o Substance related disorders
o Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders
o Mood disorders
o Anxiety disorders
o Obsessive compulsive disorders
o Dissociative disorders
o Somatic symptom and related disorders
o Eating disorders
o Sleep disorders
o Personality disorders
Historical Accounts of Behaviour
• Possession by demons
• Witches in league with the devil
• Victims of God’s puishet
• Cruel, barbaric and superstitious treatments
Medical Model (Illness as a disease)
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Document Summary
Lifetime = 53: 12 months = 26% Prevalence varies with: gender, age, education, homelessness. Definitions of abnormality: statistical infrequency, personal distress, social or occupational disability, violating social norms or a threat to others. Dsm 5: covers the nature and range of mental illness, psychological disturbance or disorders. Infant / childhood / adolescent disorders: cognitive/organic disorders, substance related disorders, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, dissociative disorders, somatic symptom and related disorders, eating disorders, sleep disorders, personality disorders. Historical accounts of behaviour: possession by demons, witches in league with the devil, victims of god"s pu(cid:374)ish(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, cruel, barbaric and superstitious treatments. Refinements to the medical model: neural circuits, neurotransmitter dysfunction, genetic predisposition and heritability. Rise of psychological explanations: failure to find organize or neurological explanations, studies of hysteria by freud, most behavior and disorders are multi-determined, biological, psychological, social.
