PSYO 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Twin Study, Specific Phobia
23 Mar 2018
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Classifying disorders: the dsm: dsm: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, describes the symptoms used to diagnose each recognized mental disorder. Cultural effect: epidemiology: the study of the distribution and causes of health and disease, mental health issues are reported as different rates but, depression and anxiety = most common. Impulse-control and substance-use disorders = 2nd most common: but culture can influence how mental disorders are experienced, described, assessed, and treated. New approach to understanding mental disorders: research doman criteria project (rdoc) Chest pain + severe headaches + fatigue + difficulty breathing = underlying disease of hypertension not four different disorders. Not talking about situation-related anxiety; concern is when anxiety is maladaptive. Anxiety disorders: excessive fear, anxiety, avoidance: class of disorders in which anxiety is the predominate feature, common to experience more than one type of anxiety disorder, significant comorbidity with depression, types, phobic disorders, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders: phobic disorders: phobic disorders, marked.
