PSYC 1030H Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Problem Gambling, Intellectual Disability
20 Mar 2019
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What criteria to use? (a blend of these things: statistical, social, personal, functional, unexpectedness. Infrequent in the population: e. g. , intellectual disability (iq<70, caveat: what about . Deviance from social norms: violates social norms (widely held beliefs and standards for acceptable behaviour, e. g. , anti-social personality disorder. Deviance from personal norms (distress: symptoms cause subjective suffering, agony, acute change from previous level of functioning, e. g. , depressive disorders, anxiety disorders. Impairs the ability to function in important areas of life. Relationships, family, work, education: e. g. , pathological gambling. Unexpectedness: surprising or out-of-proportion responses to environmental stressors can be considered abnormal, e. g. , some anxiety disorders may be diagnosed when the anxiety is out of proportion to the situation. Dangers of looking at symptoms in isolation: (without clear operational definitions: risk of overestimation amount of mental illness ( pathologizing normal behaviour, overlook continuity with all human experience, overlook social causes and personal context.
