PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mental Disorder, Psy, Stereotype

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Vannasone

Document Summary

Taxonomy o helps to provide some order, and to organize the different behaviours we see into different groups. Helps to say this person has this, this person has this in order to organize. Determine what findings will apply to what for each disorder. Guide the way through referrals, how you treat a patient is based on what they are specifically going through. There is a lot of research on different things for different disorders can look at the research on the specific disorder based on what the actual disorder is and see what is most effective. Insurance companies may only fund things for a particular disorder o. Based on research need to have the specific disordered people in the research to figure out what works best for the specific disorder. Social/political o accommodation may be made for specific disorders, certain things can help people who have a mental disorder and commit a crime types of.