PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rorschach Test, Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Psyc 121 ch 15 psychological disorders lecture summary. Behaviour that is self-destrucive or harmful to others: in canada: mental disorders = leading cause of disability age 15-44, mental health judgements must be objecive. Abnormal behaviour due to norms and values. Early views linked psychological disorder with evil (demonlogical view) Some views saw that disorders relected disease or sickness: philippe pinel and classiicaion of disorders by paterns of symptoms, classiicaion systems given medical basis. Diagnosis: disorders classiied using dsm (diagnosic and staisical manual of mental. Primary goal of dsm is to be descripive and to provide clear diagnosic categories. Lists symptoms, onset, predisposing factors, course of disorder, prevalence, sex raio, and cultural issues in diagnosis. Important to be aware of limitaions and problems present in atempts to classify mental disorders: the danger of over-diagnosis, power of diagnosic labels, confusion of serious mental disorders with normal problems, the illusion of objecivity and universality. Defenders agree that boundaries between normal problems and.
