PSYCH 5681 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mental Health Parity Act, Autism Spectrum, Borderline Personality Disorder
8 Mar 2018
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By dr. jerome wakefield so and so. His thought is that if something impairs our own ability to perform our evolutionarily-selected function: eating (adult unable to buy food, feed themselves, etc. ), bipedalism (unable to walk upright), procreation (behavior is so abhorrent to other humans, cant procreate), cannot provide roof over head (homelessness; inability). This theory does not explain adhd sitting in a classroom staying still is not: when looking at curves, there"s a lot of overlap between adhd and an evolutionary function control group. For (cid:373)ost of the (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tr(cid:455)"s histor(cid:455), health i(cid:374)sura(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:272)o. "s (cid:272)ould just (cid:374)ot pay for anything that was mental health-related. Legislation was pushed by mrs. gore that insurance companies are required to cover mental health as well as physical health. Fun fact: mental health parity act has been scrubbed from government page. The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth edition (dsm-
