PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Everytime, Token Economy
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There is daily functioning distress causes disability, it ranges very vastly from someone who lost sense in reality to someone how doesn"t get any gratification in life. Dsmhiv- psychopathology in the dsm we havea categorization of disorders and symptoms. We look at abnormality when we think about mental disorders. Abnormality- it is the violation of a norm. Sometimes we define is when they are experiencing impairment or disability, it is statistical infrequency when you a re not normal compare to majority of individuals in society. But maybe you"re not normal, but does this bother you, you don"t want to pathologize someone (telling them that something is wrong with them just because they are not like everyone else. Impairment and distress- if you are not impaired or feel distress from a disorder then you shouldn"t be diagnosed with a disorder, this is why being gay got removed from the dsm. Behaviour modification is tied into clinical psychology.
