PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Borderline Personality Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
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Theories of psychopathology the norm hurt the person in any way. Learning theory is intertwined in everything we do we need it for psych: impairment of daily functioning and distress does not being normal, dsm-iv/dsm-s categorization of specific disorders and symptoms, abnormality statistical abnormality, different from social norm. Psychopathological symptoms delusional thoughts your body weight. What are some reasons that people end up having a mental disorder: childhood, biological factors, the onset of the disorder, how they are generally. Can often find behavioral triggers for a lot of disorders. It is important to find the behavioral trigger because it can make diagnosis easier and it really gives us something to work with. It is also very measurable easier to prevent the disorder from getting worse. When we can break thing downs into behavioral triggers, it has less stigma attached to it and it makes people feel a lot better when they are participating in therapy.
