PSY 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mental Disorder, Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Dsm-5
15 Dec 2015
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Most common way of understanding nature of mental disorders. Perpetuated by media rehabilitation narrative: about healing and fixing, but still says there is something wrong with these patients influences public, leads to policy changes, leads to stigma (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) stigma. 3 types of stigma: abominations to body, blemishes of individual character, tribal stigma how to diagnose mental disorders. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: dsm iv. What about disorders that have been excluded. Psychopathy is not included: dsm v. Underlying reason for mental disorder is due to internally based. Prominence and well endorsed model of mental disorders (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) increase in mental disorder. We are able to identify it better. People are more open about mental disorder there"s more on the dsm to diagnose: more normative things are included on the dsm. Majority of calls for police is related to mental disordered offenders.
