PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Psychopathy, Substance Abuse
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Recovery model: getting the patient involved and letting them direct their treatment with the supervision of medical providers. Groups to attend, medicine to take, etc. Mental health usually has a much more negative connotation than (cid:1) physical health, there have been improvements here. General criteria considered when judging behavior as abnormal: deviance: there are things that aren"t accepted in society, norms evolve themselves and range from person to person. Ex: men wearing women"s clothing: personal distress, maladaptive behavior (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Ex: man not able to go to work b/c so intoxicated. Women so socially anxious doesn"t want to leave home. Prevalence the percentage of people who exhibit a disorder. Life time prevalence over the span of a lifetime, 44% of adult population: substance abuse, anxiety, mood. Anxiety coped with by avoiding the things that make you anxious. Anxiety vs fear > adaptive in moderation. Neuroticism: cognitions > loss of control; threat of assessment.
