PSYCH 3830 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Mental Disorder, Schizophrenia, Personality Disorder

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3830
• Professor: Cynthia Pury

Document Summary

Consilience: looking at understanding any issue or change or phenomenon from a variety of different levels. Changing one thing can cause changes in a lot of different things, changes everything down to the smallest and largest degree. Changes in one level are reflected in changes in your organs and other biological systems. Changes in you reflect changes in your group or culture (true for mental health disorders) A whole chain reaction occurs from one change. Nurse practitioners specialize more in the biological aspects - prescribing drugs; phd & Psyd deal more with the individual assessment; msw more towards the right, deals with cultures as a whole. Meaning it is a cluster of symptoms that is repeated over a period of time. The symptoms of a mental disorder warrant treatment. A disturbance, something that is not good. (think, feel and do) A disturbance in multiple areas at the level of the individual.