Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Dsm-5, Psychopathology, Etiology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Alvin Segal

Document Summary

Abnormal behavior: describe and evaluate the medical model of abnormal behavior and identify the key criteria of abnormality. The medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease become the main way of thinking about abnormal behavior including mental illness , psychological disorder, psychopathology since 19th and 20th centuries. This view is in stark contrast to how mental illness used to be perceived. Thus, the medical model has brought much needed improvement in patient care. Medical concept that used to treatment and study of abnormality. Diagnosis involves distinguishing one illness from another. Etiology refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis is a forecast about the probable course of an illness: identify the key criteria of abnormality and discuss the development of. Although two or three may apply in particular case, people viewed as disordered only one criteria is met.