PSYCH 2AP3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Antidepressant, Teratology, Dsm-5

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Sociocultural: unacceptable violations of social or cultural expectations (least commonly used) Impairment: symptoms impair social, occupational, or other domains of functioning. Personal distress: symptoms cause significant concern for the individual. Determine if the individual is too far away from the average in some characteristic. When an individual is too low or too far below the average their behaviour is pathological. Cultures differ in what they consider acceptable. Problems: if disorders are brain based they cannot be culturally relative. Thomas szasz: argued that there is no mental illness but are all culturally determined. E. g. parents who are self sacrificing for their children. No clear line between normalcy and disorder. Abnormality based on agreement of psychologists and psychiatrists. Pressures to include symptoms as disorders in dsm. Abnormality caused by physical problems in brain structure or function. Began with relationship between syphilis and mental symptoms. Terminology: sick, mental illness, nervous breakdown language implies an underlying physical cause.

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