PSYC 3604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mental Disorder, Schizophrenia, World Health Organization
20 Nov 2014
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It is somewhat typical for students who are learning about an illness/disorder to feel they are exhibiting the disorder. Found students majoring in psychology to be more worried about their psychological health than those majoring in other fields. She also found that learning about psychological disorders was helpful in reducing students" fears about their own psychological status. However, these same students reported an increase in fear about their families" mental health. Disease burden: world health organization, disability adjusted life years (dalys) Allows comparison of the burden of disease across many different disease conditions. Dalys account for lost years of healthy life regardless of whether the years were lost due to premature death or disability (weighted for severity of disability). Rare?: mental illness, mental disease or mental disorder. How do we define abnormal behaviour: norm violation. Social norms vary over time, and across cultures. Does not distinguish between desirable and undesirable rarities.
