Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Phobia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviour as a disease. The rise of medical model brought improvements in the treatment of those who exhibited abnormal behaviour. As victims of an illness, they were viewed with more sympathy and less hatred and fear. Even after recovery, someone who has been labeled mentally ill may have difficulty finding a place to live or getting a job. Etiology refers to the apparent causation and development history of an illness. A prognosis is a forecast about the probable course of an illness. Formal diagnoses of psychological disorders are made by mental health professionals. Although two or three criteria might be met, people are often viewed as disordered when only once criterion is met. People can be divided into two groups: those who are normal and those who are not. Axes l clinicians use to record most types of disorders.