HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Space Race, Mental Disorder, Personality Disorder
31 Jan 2020
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Tell us about society: as society changes so does our understanding of mental disorders, who do we designate as sick and why, how do we decide who needs to be treated and how to treat them. Adhd cont: by 80s came the medicalized biological explanation, drugs like benzadryne used diagnostically, if the drug works then we can conclude the diagnosis is correct. If child responds, they come to a conclusion. Adults have been empowered to make decisions on behalf of children. Parent feels their child isnt meeting their expectations, brings them to the doctor " my child should be doing better in school", the child themselves might not feel suffering but others determine that for them. Cluster b - impulse control/emotional regulation: borderline pd: Intense, unstable relationships, alternate between idealization and devaluation. Little diagnostic reliability: not an isolated phenomenon (hallucinations) but core of people"s being - their entire personality, blurred lines between "healthy" and "sick" (ex.
