PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Autism Spectrum, American Psychiatric Association, Approaching Normal
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We want people to get help, but there is some stigma. For people caring for people who have those disorders: disability. Disability due to psychological disorder: risk of death, pain, disability, and loss of freedom. Disorders can cause lots of bad things to happen. About people who are doing things a little bit differently that the majority. What the majority does is not necessarily good: not ideal, distressing. Does change with cultural norms: harm to self or others. A thing that is stopping people being all they can be. Causing harm to others: unusual behavior that is harmful to self or others that is causing distress to the individual of people around them. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm: published by american psychiatric association, dsm published in 5/2013. International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems: free, published by world health organization, might be easier to read. Some of diagnostic criteria sometimes is too broad.
