PSY 1102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bulimia Nervosa, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Avolition

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Abnormal psychology-scientific study of mental illness:causes, treatments and preven- tions. Mental illness is more prevalent now than you may think: 26% within a year, 46% within a lifetime. Help? not much why? ignorance, money resources and stigma. Beware: mss (medical student syndrome: defining psychological disorders. Dsm: the book for mental health professionals, for every disorder it gives symptoms, de- velopmental and criteria that must be met for diagnosis. Reliable categories if one person goes to a different therapist with the same symptoms, they should reach the same conclusion. Constantly evolving revise it every coupe of years. Criticism based on medical model, western culture and too many disorders (35% qualify as mentally ill: labelling psych. Biasing power: tend to see everything through the label: david rosenhan (1973) Self-fulfilling prophecies: the tendency when levelled to start to act like that certain label. The benefit is that is facilitates communication.