PSYC 1000 Lecture 17: psych lecture 17 - nov 12.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

Abnormal behaviour: distinguishing normal from abnormal behaviour, must examine content and context, a continuum of emotions and behaviour, length of time, intensity of emotion; impact. Labeling behaviour as abnormal: what does the behaviour look like, unconventionality and statistical rarity (deviance) The need to classify abnormal behaviour: psychological disorder = clinically significant disturbance in an individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behaviour , need for a common shorthand, understanding the cause of the symptoms, e. g symptom of grandiosity, direction for treatment. Disorders: dsm: medical model, dsm-5 (may 2013, dsm iv (dsm-iv-tr 2000, diagnostic statistical manual of mental disorders (tr= text revised) Classifying psychological disorders: dsm: focus on a description of patterns of symptons, behaviours, does not presume cause, over 200 mental disorders and 350 diagnostic categories, reliability and validity. Politics of labeling: what is abnormal: orgasm in women as abnormal (1800s) vs. female orgasmic disorder (dsm-v, tobacco use disorder (dsm-v, homosexuality, removed from dsm ii 1973, sexual orientation disturbance (dsm-iii 1980)