3750:100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Mental Disorder, Biopsychosocial Model
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1: researchers have found that toddlers who watch lots of tv are, at age 7, more likely than. Clinically signi cant disturbance in cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior. Often also distressful (bothers the person) medical model: concept that diseases have physical causes. Mental illnesses can be diagnosed based on symptoms and can be cured bio-psycho-social approach: Dsm-5: american psychiatric association"s diagnostic and statistical manual of mental. *take note of the revision outlined in the textbook* Greatest problem with diagnostic labeling is the biasing power of labels. Media portrayal of people suffering disorders as violent. 26% of adults in a given year experience a psychological disorder. More recent estimates predict every 1 in 4 adults. Incidence of serious psychological disorders is double for those below the poverty line. Disorders usually strike by early adulthood antisocial personality disorder- age 8 (median) phobias- age 10 major depression- age 25. Ocd, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia- age 20 mood disorders major depressive disorder.
