PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Converting Vegetarians, Mental Disorder, Eating Disorder

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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Apply the three-prong test to identify the presence of a mental disorder. Clinically significant: symptoms are considered clinically significant if a clinician judges them to be sufficiently significant, marked, or substantial in intensity, or duration that the patient would benefit from professional treatment (ex. Being upset about a test vs. the test makes you so upset that you can"t eat or sleep) External: internal factors are driven from within, sense of pride satisfaction, external factors come from the outside such as reward, good grades, praise, and comes from someone else, a mental disorder must be the result of an internal factor. It cannot be a mental disorder is their behaviour is voluntary, ex. Fasting in response to government injustice vs. fasting due to an eating disorder. We need to understand the context in which the person has been raised in to perceive and understanding if their behaviour is normal or not.