PSY305 Lecture Notes - Biopsychosocial Model, Major Depressive Disorder, Mental Disorder
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Rachael sharman, t2. 06 (email withheld) consult 11-12pm on tuesdays. Common elements, however (eg: suffering, maladaptiveness, deviancy, violation of standards of society, social discomfort, irrationality, unpredictability) Associated with distress/disability (eg: impairment in one or more important areas of functioning) Not simply predictable and culturally-sanctioned response to particular event (eg: death of loved one) Considered to reflect behavioural, psychological or biological dysfunction in individual. Significant for many reasons (eg: planning, establishing and funding mental health services) Frequency can provide clues to causes (eg: eating disorders more common in certain populations) Lifetime prevalence of having any dsm-iv disorder as high as 50% Most prevalent category is anxiety disorders, followed by mood disorders. Most common individual disorders are major depressive disorder, alcohol abuse, phobias, conduct disorder. Comorbidity (multiple disorders in same person) high, especially when person has one serious disorder. Patients that need inpatient hospitalisation typically admitted to psychiatric units of general hospitals or to private hospitals.
