PSY 4105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gender Role, Interdisciplinarity, Etiology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4105
• Professor: Caroline Sullivan

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If it causes an impairment in social/occupational functioning. Consider age, developmental stage, social situation behaviour, cognition, emotion or physical symptoms) The abnormality of something isn"t dependant on the cause. Dsm is a checklist doesn"t look at the cause (dsm is atheoretical) Very often we see similar etiological explanations for different disorders. Multifinality = same cause can lead to different disorders. Equifinality = different causes can lead to a same disorder. Dsm is slowly beginning to reflect that. Kids don"t know how to express their emotions or feelings. Depressed 30 year old is very similar to a depressed 45 year old. The person making the call is very rarely the youth. Adults can get help on their own without anyone else knowing. A child has a lot of people that know about it. Children tend to have a multi- disciplinary care (doctor, school, parents and health care specialists) The factors that contribute to the development of a psychological disorders.