PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Bipolar Disorder

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Psychological disorder: deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, behaviors. Deviants: vary by culture, time (era and homosexuality), caused by stress. Harmful dysfunction: interferes with life, work, leisure, impairs life. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd): psychological disorder marked by appearance by age 7 of one or more of 3 key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity. Medical model: pinel, concept that diseases and psychological disorders have physical cause that can be diagnosed, treated, cured, through treatment in a hospital. Moral treatment boosts morale through gentleness, clean air, activity. Mental health movement: mental illness (psychopathology) needs to be diagnosed based on symptoms, cured through therapy, treatment in hospital. Taijin-kyofusho: social anxiety about appearance, blush, fear of eye contact (japan) Culture affects disorders and stress, same dynamic (anxiety) differs in symptoms (eating problem) Dsm-iv-tr: american psychiatric association"s diagnostic and statistical manual of mental. Disorders (with ed) updated as a 2000 text revision, widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.