PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anxiety Disorder, Psychological Evaluation, Biology Of Depression
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Biological models: the role of the nervous system, the role of chemistry, genetics and behaviour. Psychosocial theories: psychodynamic theories, behavioural theories, cognitive theories, humanistic theories. Going to compare your behaviour to others behaviour is an assesment. In this order but all three steps are ongoing processes. Diagnosis: benefit-research shows that if you are diagnosed having schizophrenia, psychotherapy is not the paramount therapy for this. Diagnosis benefit is in the selection of the treatment. There is a harm, when we provide a diagnosis for someone who has a mental disorder, the most harm is stigma. Typically, schizophrenia does come back, have acute episodes. In mental health do apply same labels, stigmizing, unlike flu. Cancer, ongoing battle but those people are not labelled. To divide statiscal norms and look at behaviours outside of these statistical norms. Dsm4- new categories, some removed and do not exist. Dsm4 tr- text revision, new version same categories, no different statistics only txt revised.
