PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Intellectual Disability, Dorothea Dix
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Psychologists don"t diagnose these conditions, work with specific person to see what condition. Axis i would be depression, axis iv- someone lost their job. A scale from 0-100 looking at level of adaptive functioning. 100 is someone who is perfect in every way. 0 is almost like someone without a pulse. Co-morbidity is having a disorder on more than on level, more than one disorder. Duel diagnosis- when you have an axis i disorder and have an axis ii disorder like mental retardation (axis ii) Just mental retardation and a mental health problem. Concurrent disorders- addictions with both drug addiction and depressed. Poet walk whitman visits london ontario asylum for the insane (1880) Had has a mental disability himself, physical handicap with gait. He was very sensitive to humanity of hospital, introducing humane treatment. Like american dorothea dix, his name is associated in ontario with the call for more humane treatment for the severe mentally ill.