PSYC104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Anxiety Disorder, Mental Disorder, Personal Distress
13 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Psychopathology Lecture
Mental Health, Problems and Disorder
- Mental Health: state of emotional and social wellbeing
- Mental Health Problems: emotional and behavioural abnormalities which impair functioning
or causes distress
- Mental Disorder: causes significant distress to self or others AND impairs functioning (social,
occupational, personal, health)
Emotional Problems Affect Us All
- Proportion of people who meet criteria for mental problems and disorders
- Lifetime = 53%, 12mth = 26%
- Family member or close friend = 64%
- Family member, close friend or colleague = 77%
- Male = 72%
- Female = 83%
- Rural = 86%
- Not sought help: 55% (emotional) vs 7% (physical)
o Study on this was focused on prejudice
- Indicated that disorders are not rare
NATIONAL SURVEY OF MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING (2007)
Any Disorder
Mood
Anxiety
Substance
Lifetime
45.5% (USA = 57.4%)
15%
26.3% (USA =
31%)
24.7%
12 mths
20% (USA = 32.45%)
6.2%
14.4%
(USA=19%)
5.1%
Number of sufferers
(in Australia)
4,600,000
1,426,000
3,300,000
1,170,000
PREVALENCE VARIES WITH
Gender - F/M = x1.25 (more prevalent in females).
Age = 16-24 yrs vs 75=yrs =x4.
Education 19.5% vs 24.9%
Homelessness 53.6% vs 20%
Incarceration 41.15 vs 20%
DAYS OUT OF ROLE
Affective (mood) disorder = 6.2 days
Anxiety disorder = 4.5 days
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Document Summary
Mental health: state of emotional and social wellbeing. Mental health problems: emotional and behavioural abnormalities which impair functioning or causes distress. Mental disorder: causes significant distress to self or others and impairs functioning (social, occupational, personal, health) Proportion of people who meet criteria for mental problems and disorders. Family member, close friend or colleague = 77% Not sought help: 55% (emotional) vs 7% (physical) Female = 83: study on this was focused on prejudice. National survey of mental health and well-being (2007) Gender - f/m = x1. 25 (more prevalent in females). Violating social norms or a threat to others. Definition socially determined and varies with time and place. Criteria for classification needs to be explicit, valid (testable) and reliable. Dsmi and dsmii would only have descriptions of disorders, not criteria. Gives rise to cruel, barbaric & superstitious treatments (chants, rituals, exorcisms, torture, confinement).
