PSYCH 2AP3 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Mental Disorder, Emotional And Behavioral Disorders
26 Oct 2017
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Symptoms impair social, occupational or other domains of functioning. Individual is not doing well in interpersonal relationships. Abnormality caused by physical problems in the brain. Individuals not aware of these con icts or why they occur. Behaviour is acquired are the disorder generalized inappropriately. Changes reward conditions to produce extinction or relearning. Individual is not the problem, abnormality results from the environment around them. Dsm 1 (1952) reduced psychodynamic bias, talked about. No change in categories, diagnostic criteria; descriptive text updated. Gives diagnostic labels to describe and clarify presenting problems. Identi es dysfucntion based on personal distress, impaired functioning or increased risk of impaired functioning. Has to be treated by changing external conditions that the diagnostician has no control over. The epigenome is a set of chemical markers on our genetic code , tell the body not to use certain genes. Environmental conditions and things we experience in life change the epigenome.
