PSYA02H3 Chapter 15-1: PSYA02 - Chapter 15-1.docx
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Chapter 15 treatment of psychological disorders: people may not realize that their disorder needs to be treated: Treatment: getting help to those who need it. The personal costs of the disorders involve anguish to the sufferers as well as interference in their ability to carry on the activities of daily life. Why people cannot or will not seek treatment. People may fail to get treatment because of 3 major problems: Treatments can be divided into 2 kinds: even people who acknowledge they have a problem may not know where to look for services: => even when people seek and find help, they sometimes do not receive the most effective treatments. => before choosing or prescribing a therapy, we need to know what kinds of treatments are available and understand which treatments are best for particular disorders. => the origin of mental illness is hidden and usually cannot be diagnosed by a blood test.
