PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Eating Disorder

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

Document Summary

Many definitions have proposed over history yet none universally accepted. Ongoing debate in the field of psychiatry and clinical psychology. The three ds all three must be present: dysfunction. Breakdown in cognitive, emotional or behavioural functioning. Normal shyness vs. social anxiety disorder? o dieting. Knowing where to draw the line between normal and abnormal dysfunction is often difficult. Suffering and distress = big part of life. Some disorders suffering or distress are absent: impairment. Replaces distress when distress is not present in the disorder (ex. So shy that you find it impossible to date or even interact with people, you make every attempt to avoid interactions even though you would like to have friends then your. Social functioning is impaired: deviant (atypical or not culturally expected, atypical/deviates from the average. The greater the deviations, the more abnormal it is. May people are far from the average in their behaviour but few would be considered disordered.