PSYCH 1XX3 Chapter 5: Psychological Disorders (chapter 5)
1 Apr 2016
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The four d"s: set of important criteria to help diagnose psychological disorders, deviance, distress, dysfunction and danger. Deviance: ideas, thought, emotions and behaviours that are considered outside the norm. Distress: negative emotions towards things that are happening. Dysfunction: impairment or inability to preform everyday functions. Danger: dangerous or violent behaviours to oneself or others. Medical student"s disease: the belief that you have one or more of described psychological disorders. The perception that oneself or others have the disease that the student is learning about. Symptom: any characteristic of a person"s actions, thought or feeling that could be a potential indicator of a mental illness. Syndrome: a collection of interrelated symptoms manifested by any given individual. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm): classi cation system for psychological disorders: rst created in 1952, improved with each new edition, now on dsm 5, contains nearly 20 categories and 300 different disorders.
