PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: American Psychiatric Association, World Health Organization, Allen Frances

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1

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Syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behaviour that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or development processes underlying mental functioning. Abnormal psychology study of psychological disorders. Abnormal behaviour that is not typical, usual, regular. Abnormal behaviour deviates from ideal manner of behaving. Cannot avoid cross-cultural differences diverse ideals. Cannot reach consensus regarding what constitutes ideal behaviour. Behaviours that cause harm less than ideal. Sympathetic to those who have conditions that cause harm to themselves. Comorbid more than one disorder at the same time. Abnormal behaviour distressing & harmful to self or others. Rate of psychological disorders in young adults higher than general population. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) 1st published by american psychiatric association (apa) in 1952. International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, 10th edition icd-10. Normal behaviours categorized as abnormal by system. Most frequently used in usa for diagnosis of psychological disorders.