Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Donald Gorassini

Document Summary

Each disinguished by its set of symptoms syndrome. Clinically signiicant detriment, has to have a degree of severity (happens 15 imes) Internal element, comes from inside of you (a moivaional state) Diagnosic and staisical manual of mental disorders (text) dsm 5th ediion. The icd classiicaion of mental and behavioural disorders (world health organizaion) Physical disease (e. g. , demenia) relected in a deterioraion of the brain where signals can"t get to the receptors, which comes with age or. Prevalence of a disorder is the percentage of people in the populaion who have a speciic mental disorder. 1-year prevalence randomly select people from the populaion and follow them for one year - see what % exhibit the disorder. Lifeime prevalence randomly select people from the populaion and follow them over their lifeime see what % exhibit the disorder (bigger value) Disproporionate fear caused by a speciic object or situaion. Great lengths to avoid source of fear.