PSY 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reaction Formation, Psychoactive Drug, Electroconvulsive Therapy
Document Summary
Psy 280 lecture 1 introduction and historical review. Introduction to the study of mental disorders: history of psychopathology, the evolution of contemporary thought, mental health and science & practice. What is abnormal psychology: abnormal behavior, thoughts, emotions, psychopathology, mental illness, social construction, mental disorder, brain disorder. Psychopathology: study of the nature, development, and treatment of psychological disorders/aberrant psychological processes. Defining mental disorder: personal distress, the condition that causes the individual distress, emotional pain and suffering, disability. Impairment in a key area: violation of social norms, makes others uncomfortable or causes problems, dysfunction, failure of internal mechanisms in the mind to function properly, behavioral, psychological, and/or biological systems are impaired. Stigma: distinguishing label is applied, label refers to undesirable attributes, people with the label are seen as different, people with the label are discriminated against, stigma. Defining mental disorder, dsm-5 definition: the disorder occurs within the individual. It involves clinically significant difficulties in thinking, feeling, or behaving.
