PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neuroscience, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Comorbidity
14 Sep 2016
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Two word term to describe a disorder by jerome wakefield was harmful dysfunction. Koro and latah are two cultural specific disorders. Using only personal distress as a criterion risks over-pathologizing normal conditions. Main areas of thought are genetics, neurobiology, hormones, family history, sex. Historically, the biological traditional assumed that good or poor mental health was to do with only biology. Things on their own would not cause a problem. Diathesis stress models (vulnerability stress models: interaction between biological vulnerability and stressful life events. Each on their own would not be enough to lead to disorder. Ptsd is good example where many suffer traumatic events but few are diagnosed: psychological effects come into play, such as low self esteem. Can make individual more vulnerable to mental health problem: traditional model proposed that a vulnerability is a predisposition to develop a disorder. If vulnerable and experience stress, then disorder will come: current model outlines spectrum of each.
