PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder
8 Dec 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Defining and classifying psychological disorders 15. 1, 16. 1, 15. 3. Asylum: residential facilities for the mentally ill, they were set up after the beliefs of superstitions as a way to treat the mentally ill. Medical model: sees psychological conditions through the same lens as western medicine tends to see physical conditions- as sets of symptoms, causes and outcomes, with treatments aimed at changing physiological processes in order to alleviate symptoms. Maladaptive: whether it causes distress to oneself or others, impairs day-to-day functioning, or increase the risk of injury or harm to oneself or others. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm: a standardized manual to aid in the diagnosis of disorders; this edition describes, pg. Etiology: origins or causes of symptoms; and a prognosis or prediction of how these symptoms will persist or change over time. A person could cause a car accident or commit murder when in a severely dissociative state such as could occur due to schizophrenia or ptsd.
