PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Probiotic, Pluralistic Ignorance, Excoriation Disorder

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Dylan Selterman

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Cultural influences: symptoms (schizophrenia, african and indian patients: all positive voices, playful, as manifesting spirits or magic, and even as entertaining, americans patients: not one positive voice, often threatening, violent. What is a (cid:862)disorder(cid:863): a dysfunctional pattern of though, emotion or behavior that causes distress or that is co(cid:374)sidered de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)t i(cid:374) that perso(cid:374)"s culture or society, distress, dysfunctional, unusual, conflated with weirdness (taboo behavior) Distant diagnoses: goldwater rule: no way that a psychiatrist can listen to interviews and statements and say that someone has a mental disorder. How to treat a disorder: bio-psycho-social model, psychological: target the mind (cognitive behavioral therapy, biological: target the brain (drugs, social: target the environment (family therapy, community programs) Disorders: depressive category, major depression and dysthymia, highly correlated with anxiety and stress, often misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, normative emotional state optimism, mild/moderate depression realism, severe depression pessimism.