PS101 Lecture Notes - Drapetomania, Reduced Affect Display, Auditory Hallucination
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Medical model (abnormality as a disease: mental illness being treated as a disease rather then a crime. Deviance: if it is deviant from the norm, it is abnormal , examples. When a slave exhibited the urge to escape from slavery. Personal distress: if we feel that we need help. Axis 1 primary problems: symptoms: mood, self esteem. Axis 2 personality disorder: eating disorder. Axis 3 medical conditions: hypertension, diabetes. Axis 4 external stressor: no social network. Axis 5 functioning: going from good to hurting oneself. Rise in disorders since its first publication: are we over diagnosing, powers of labels. External causes triggered by some past event, an object/situation: post traumatic stress trauma, vulnerability increases with intensity of event aftermath requires a traumatic event to trigger it. Symptoms: nightmares, flashbacks, isolation from others, depression, anxiety, anger, increased arousal: phobias irrational fear of object, situation. Fear and physical symptoms: panic disorder and agoraphobia.
