PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Major Depressive Episode
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Etiology: apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis: forecast about the probable course of an illness. Diagnosis-making criteria: deviance their behaviour deviates from what their society considers acceptable, maladaptive behaviour their everyday adaptive behaviour is impaired, personal distress individual"s report of great personal distress. Clinicians record most types of disorders on axis 1: disorders diagnosed in infancy (add, autism, stuttering, substance related disorders, schizophrenia, mood/anxiety disorders, sexual and gender-identity disorders, eating disorders. Personality disorder: extreme inflexible personality trades that are deviant or maladaptive. Physical conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, etc. Examples are a negative life event, environmental difficulty, interpersonal stress, inadequacy of social support, etc. Describes the context in which a person"s difficulties have developed. Estimate of individual"s highest level of functioning. 100: superior functioning in a wide range of activities. 1: persistent danger of severely hurting self or others. Comorbidity: the coexistence of two or more disorders.
