PSY 202 Study Guide - Final Guide: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Thought Disorder, Reinforcement
8 Apr 2018
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Psychopathology (mental illness) is often seen as a failure of adaptation to the environment. Failure analysis approach tries to understand mental illness by examining breakdowns in functioning. In contrast, many phobias are triggered by experiences: societal disapproval. Demonic model: view of mental illness in which odd behavior, hearing voices, or talking to oneself was attributed to evil spirits infesting the body. Medical model: view of mental illness as due to a physical disorder requiring medical treatment. Asylum: institution for people with mental illnesses created in the fifteenth century. Acquires a more negative connotation because many institutions were massively overcrowded and understaffed. Moral treatment: approach to mi calling for dignity, kindness, and respect for those with mi. Four misconceptions about psychiatric diagnosis: psychiatric diagnosis is nothing more than pigeonholing (sorting people into different boxes, depriving their uniqueness, psychiatric diagnosis are unreliable (used to be true, not anymore)
