PSY 602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Asperger Syndrome, Bipolar Disorder, Personality Disorder
29 May 2017
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What type of assessment would you use: unstructured interview, semi-structured interview, structured interview, self-report, projective test, neuropsych testing. We shouldn"t be so quick to label people as. Brian"s law; forces people to take medication/seek treatment when they leave an institution. Professor believes that some pedophiles are psychopaths. **there have been major revisions between dsm-4 and dsm-5**: asperger"s was taken out of the dsm. Professor believes that some personality disorders, as well as psychopathy, are not mental disorders: psychopathy and sociopathy are not categories in the dsm, nor are they mental health issues, psychosis is different from psychopath. Psychosis is a loss of touch from reality and includes hallucinations and delusions. Two/three disorders that have hurting others as a symptom: sexual sadism, pedophilic disorder and anti-social personality disorder (a criminal mind). You must be diagnosed with conduct disorder as a child to be diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder. However, harming people is not a mandatory criteria for conduct disorder.
