PSYC 1215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder
30 Jul 2016
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Today"s psychologists contend that all behavior, whether called normal or disordered, arises from the interaction of nature (genetic and physiological factors) and nurture (past and present experiences). Evidence of such effects comes from links between specific disorders and cultures (beardsley, 1994; Cultures differ in their sources of stress, and they produce different ways of coping. Examples:the eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, for example, have occurred mostly in western cultures. In malaysia,amok describes a sudden outburst of violent behavior (thus the phrase run amok ). Africa and across the americas, schizophrenia"s symptoms often include irrationality and incoherent speech. Dsm-iv-tr: the american psychiatric association"sdiagnostic and statistical manua of mental disorders, fourth edition, with an updated text revision ; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. The dsm-iv-tr defines a diagnostic process and 16 clinical syndromes without presuming to explain their causes, it describes disorders, including psychotic disorders.
