PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Sleep Disorder, Agoraphobia

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

Document Summary

Symptoms are indicative of a diagnosable disorder fi they. Cause a clinically significant impairment in an individual"s ability to function. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Standardized manual to aid in the diagnosis of disorders. Consistency in a diagnosis among different professionals and institutions. Whether a person"s thoughts, feelings or behaviours are maladaptive. Increase the risk of injury or harm to oneself or others. Describes 3 categories of information for each disorder. A set of symptoms and the number of symptoms that must be met in order to have the disorder. Prediction of how these symptoms will persist or change over time. 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) diathesis refers to the vulnerability. Diathesis: a person"s genetic or biological vulnerability to a mental illness.