PSYC 1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Major Depressive Episode
15 Apr 2015
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The medical model: proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviour as a disease century and death to cure them. Abnormal behaviour was based on superstitions prior to 18th. Used methods such as exorcisms, chants, chains, torture, Medical diagnoses pin potentially derogatory labels on people. Stigmatization of mental disorders has remained stable or. Szasz stated there can be no mental illness b/c disease only deviation from social norms. Etiology: refers to the apparent causation and development history nowadays increased affects the body of an illness. Prognosis: a forecast about the probable course of an illness. Criteria of abnormal behaviour impaired social trends, political forces, and scientific knowledge extreme degree. Judgements about mental illness reflect prevailing cultural values, People have a mental disorder only when 3 criterion are to an. People w/ psychological disorders are often violent and dangerous. No consistent evidence that psychological disorders uncomplicated by substance abuse are a significant risk factor for violence.
