SOC363H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Scalea, Dsm-5
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Sane by fear of men (musical recommendation ) Psychiatric epidemiology vs social science then they will converge. Disorder refers to two categories: ill or not ill. Distress is a gradient of symptoms. (continuity) Some thing distress is a weak indicator of problems: not a clinically significant (cs) measure. Research on distress discounted as a result. - on the epidemiology side they think they are disting. Distress ad certain kinds of disorder tap approximately the same content. They are not distinct, they are on a continuum. Distress includes the full range of mild to serious problems. Dsm-iv definition of mental disorder (stein et al. ,2010) : it"s. A) a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual-key element in the way treated- there is a dysfunction in the individual. No definition adequately specifies precise boundaries for the concept of mental disorder ie: mental disorder is never explicitly defined.
