PSY 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mental Disorder, Medical Model, Panic Disorder
11 Dec 2018
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Mental disorder: a persistent disturbance or dysfunction in behavior, thoughts, or emotions that causes significant distress or impairment. Supernatural causes historicall people reported bizarre thoughts or emotions, such difficulties were conceptualized as there result of religions or supernatural forces. Medical model: abnormal psychological experiences are conceptualized as illnesses that, like physical illnesses, have biological and environmental causes, defined symptoms, and possible cures. Diagnosis: the first step is to determine the nature of the problem. 3 general medical and classification terms: disorder: a common set of signs or symptoms, disease: a known pathological process impacting the body, diagnosis: a determination as to whether a disorder or a disease is present. 1952 american psychological association > dsm (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders) Comorbidity : the co-occurrence of two or more disorders in a single individual. Anxiety disorders: phobic disorders, specific 5 categories. Monday, november 26, 2018: social phobias, panic disorder.
