HLTHAGE 1CC3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Psychopathology, Mood Swing
11 Nov 2017
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Lecture one: introduction to mental health and illness. Mental disorders are characterized by their effect on thought behavior mood. Some disorders only affect one of these elements others are felt in multiple areas. Mental illness as a personal problem moral failing. Seize biological disease like any other with viruses please end and genetics causing malfunctions in the brain. A physical disorder that has symptoms diagnosis and treatment focuses on the individual. Focuses on the individual but take no consideration mental/ psychic processes; believing that mental processes that reflect the interactions with the environment. Stress is that mental disorders are primarily learned behavior rather than physiological illness or psychological conflict. People are conditioned positively or negatively edited as a matter of unlearning deviant behaviors. Places greater emphasis on society as a genesis of mental disorder specifically the way in which a society is organized social structure. Different explanation seems to work better with different disorders.
