PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Mental Disorder, Master Of Social Work, Psych

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

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Psya02h3 lecture 19: classification and diagnosis of mental disorders. Definition: what do we mean by mental disorder: so that we know what people are going through and we can diagnose. Classification: how do we distinguish between mental disorders: look for overlap. Provide examples of what is normal and what isn"t. So, how do we construe the definition of what is normal and what is now: someone may deviate in their cultural context, but not in another culture. The definition of abnormal used in dsm-iv-tr (see image->) Abnormal describes behaviour, emotional, or cognitive dysfunctions that are unexpected in their cultural context and associated with personal distress or substantial impairment in functioning. Sometimes people can be highly functional with a mental disorder, or may not realize that they have a mental disorder. The scientific study of abnormal behaviour, with the objective to: describe, explain, predict, control. We see people in movies with clear-cut abnormalities (stereotypical abnormal behaviour)