Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Agoraphobia, Phobia, Anxiety Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Richard Shugar

Document Summary

Abnormal behaviour: behaviour that is personally distressing, personally dysfunctional, and/or so culturally deviant that people judge it to be inappropriate or maladaptive. Each person has a degree of vulnerability of developing a psychological disorder. Example: over/under activity of neurotransmitters, hormone imbalance, of personality factors such as low self esteem. Reliability: the clinician is using the system should show high levels of agreement in their diagnostic decisions. Validity: the diagnostic categories should accurately capture the essential features of the various disorders. Allows diagnostic information to be represented along ve dimension (axes) that take both the person and his/her life situation into account. Axis 1: represents the patient"s primary clinical symptoms! Axis 2: re ects long standing personality or developmental disorders. Axis 3: notes any physical conditions that might be relevant. Axis 4: rates the intensity of the environmental stressors in the person"s recent life. Axis 5: rates the person"s coping resources as re ected in recent adaptive functioning.