PSYC 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Intellectual Disability, Personality Disorder, Reduced Affect Display
November 29, 2017
Disorders and Treatments
Lecture 9
Many of us will suffer from a psychological disorder in our lifetime
Common myths
• Easily recognized as deviant
• Disorders are due to inheritance
• Incurable
• Weak willed
• Never contribute to society
• Always dangerous
Criteria
• 1. Deviant behaviour (going naked) in one culture may be considered normal, while in
others it may lead to arrest
• 2. Deviant behaviour must accompany distress
• 3. If a behaviour is dysfunctional it is clearly a disorder
Diagnosing
• DSM 5 Axes
o l: clinical disorders – symptoms that cause distress or impair social or
occupational functioning
o ll: personality disorders and mental retardation – chronic and enduring problems
that generally persist throughout life and impair interpersonal or occupational
functioning
o lll: general medical condition – physical disorders that may be relevant to
understanding or treating a psychological disorder
o lV: Psychosocial and environment problems – problems (such as interpersonal
stressors) that affect that diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis (expected
outcome) of disorder
o V: global assessment of functioning – individuals overall level of functioning in
social, occupational, and leisure activities
General treatment approaches
• Psychotherapy
o Involves psychological techniques derived from psychological perspectives
o Insight therapies vs. behavioural therapies
• Biomedical therapy (NOT ON EXAM)
o Involves treatments with medical procedures, such as medications
• Eclectic approach
o Approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy
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Document Summary
Many of us will suffer from a psychological disorder in our lifetime. Incurable: easily recognized as deviant, disorders are due to inheritance, weak willed, never contribute to society, always dangerous. Deviant behaviour (going naked) in one culture may be considered normal, while in others it may lead to arrest: 2. If a behaviour is dysfunctional it is clearly a disorder. Insight therapies vs. behavioural therapies: biomedical therapy (not on exam) Involves treatments with medical procedures, such as medications: eclectic approach, approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy. General anxiety disorders: always nervous, always in fight or flight response, 2. Panic disorder: overly whelming attacks of panics, dread that you are going to die, unpredictable, only lasts for a few minutes, 3. Take out what will relieve the anxiety so they can get through these things: 5. Posttraumatic stress disorder: haunting memories, nightmares, jumpy anxiety, insomnia lingering for 4 weeks after a traumatic event.
