PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Dsm-5, Abnormal Psychology, Master Of Social Work

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

Document Summary

It is important to remember-people are not just their disorders! People are not schizophrenics , alcoholics , auisics , phobics or bipolars - but rather people with schizophrenia, alcoholism, auism etc. Deiniion: what do we mean by mental disorder? o. Want to be able to say what it is so we can deine what people are going through. Provide examples of what is normal and what isn"t o. Is there a ixed deiniion of normal just like there are laws of physics? o. The deiniion of abnormal used in dsm-iv-tr (diagnosic and staisical manual of mental. Disorders, 4th ediion- the primary guide psychologist and psychiatrists use to determine if someone has a mental illness) o o. Abnormal describes behavioral, emoional, or cogniive dysfuncions that are unexpected in their cultural context and associated with personal distress or substanial impairment in funcioning.