PSYC 100 Lecture 21: PSYC 100 Week 21-22

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Christopher Miners

Document Summary

Between psychopathological ( abnormal ) and non-psychopathological ( normal ) behavior. What is considered normal has a very broad range. Symptoms are indicative of a diagnosable disorder if they: cause a clinically significant functional impairment, and significant distress ( harmful dysfunction", are not a predictable reaction to an external event, are not the result of an individual"s voluntary choice. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (american psychiatric. Standardized manual to aid in the diagnosis of disorders (north america) Mild and more severe cases are classified similarly. Some disagreement are the specifics of symptoms/ disorders. Important to keep in mind that genes and environment interact to produce mental disorders. Attributes the emergence of a mental disorder to an existing vulnerability (genetic predisposition and/or early life experience) precipitated by stress (acute or chronic). If the combination of the predisposition and the stress exceeds a threshold, the person will develop a disorder. Fear and anxiety overlap but they are also different.