01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Schizophrenia, Prevalence, Biopsychosocial Model

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:340
• Professor: L.Stein

Document Summary

Epidemiology focuses on the prevalence and incidence of mental disorders. Prevalence number of cases of a disorder in a given population at a designated time. Point prevalence number of individuals with a disorder at a specified period of time. Lifetime prevalence number of individuals known to have a disorder at sometime in their lives. Incidence number of new cases that emerge in a given population during a specified period of time. Limitations of case studies hard to generalize. Brain chemistry can determine if you will be diagnosed with mental disorders. How you were raised can affect if you will have mental illnesses. Id (cid:862)i (cid:449)ant it and i (cid:449)ant it no(cid:449)(cid:863) Behaviorism: skinner, operant conditioning, reinforcer increases, negati(cid:448)e (cid:862) (cid:862) increases, positive punishment decrease behavior, negative punishment decrease behavior, pavlov, classical conditioning, watson. Best therapies for anxiety and depression is extinction. Humanistic psych free will; we are all good and we can choose to be good.