PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: American Psychiatric Association, Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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24% adults suffer from a disorder and 31% show significant symptoms. E. g. , hearing voices, thinking you were abducted by a ufo. We need to take into account age/gender/culture/situation/current social trends to determine the broken norms. People show strong disapproval when norms are broken. All four exist together (from normal to abnormal) and a combination of all should be considered. Maladaptive behaviour is more focused on to identify whether or not it is a disorder. Certain conditions are culture-bound (specific to one or more societies) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) Controlled by american psychiatric association (apa) which creates criteria for mental disorders. Research ways to offer best type of treatment. Supplemental info (general medical condition, psychosocial/environmental problems, global assessment of functioning on a 1 (want to suicide) -100 (productive/happy) scale) Characterized by excessive anxiety in the absence of real/true danger. Intense fear of an object/situation out of proportion to actual threat.
