PSY 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Conversion Disorder, Intellectual Disability, Agoraphobia
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Thomas szasz: critic who believes the medical model is outdated. Medical model is nothing but an analogy, you need diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis for the treatment and study of abnormal psych. Medical model: the view that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease. Prognosis: forecast about the probably course of an illness. Etiology: refers to the apparent causation and development history of an illness. Criteria: person: deviance: outside of the norm, this alone won"t change a, maladaptive behavior: interferes with functioning, restricting from school, job, and relationships, personal distress: causes physical danger to anyone and/or patients personal distress. Dsm iv & axes: or mental retardation: clinical syndromes: the diagnoses of disorders are made on axes i and ii. Personality disorders: ii is used to list long-running personality disorders. Medical conditions: iii is used to list physical disorders.
