PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: American Psychiatric Association, Dsm-5, Distressing
18 Nov 2018
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Psychological disorder: a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. Medical student"s syndrome: tendency for students to perceive themselves to be experiencing or have the symptoms of an illness that they"re studying. The study of psychological disorders: statistical definition. Fails to capture distress (-: deviating from the ideal. Two or more disorders in the same individual. Stigma= a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person. Dsm-5 (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders) A system for classification of psychological disorders published by the american. Various perspectives have a great deal to say about disorders. Each has their own perspective and ideas on a disorder. A disorder characterized by deficits in social relatedness and communication skills that are often accompanied by repetitive, ritualistic behavior. Individual has all of the following social symptoms:
