PS101 Lecture Notes - Disability-Adjusted Life Year, Mania, Masturbation
Document Summary
2. 7 million people have mental disorders in canada. 3rd highest suicide rate in 15-24 year olds. Don"t see mental illness as a social concern. Use mortality to create indices to care. Disability adjusted life years (daly: 1 year lost of healthy living, increase by 15% by 2020. 1:4 teens get help: early treatment is important. Problem is the stigma: choose convict over mental patient as a roommate. Phillips: get no help = no rejection, seen psychiatrist stigma sets in (rejection) Abnormal behaviour is always cut from normal cloth. School refusal child does not want to go to school, shy, withdrawn: parents are the problem say they will be sad that the child will be gone. Normal behaviour: distortions disturbed behaviour, exaggerations, impoverishment do in public what we should do in private (masturbate) Understood abnormal behaviour: diagnosis 2 psychologists can diagnose patients differently.
