PSY 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Agreeableness, Social Isolation, Social Inhibition

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3303
• Professor: Dave Miranda

Document Summary

Clinical perspective: 2) dimensional model: extreme levels of normal personality traits. Personality disorders are extreme patterns of normal personality traits. Personality disorders are associated with ways of thinking and feeling about oneself and others that significantly and adversely affect how an individual functions in many aspects of life. Two criteria for diagnosis: 1) presence of distress (psychological distress, 2) problems in functioning (not able to function well in different domains of life) Categories are descriptive (not theoretical: practitioner refers to the dsm-5 with descriptive symptoms of disorders, lists symptoms if someone matches the symptoms, they are diagnosed. Psychiatric (biomedical model: diagnostic approach, rooted in medicine, based on biomedical model ( you have a disease , very influential across many disciplines, including clinical psychology. If so, which one: is there a pattern of symptoms? (syndrome) Ex: hearing voices and seeing hallucinations in some cultures, this is culturally expected (shaman) Don"t confuse a symptom with a cultural belief/practice: pervasive and inflexible.