PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Panic Disorder, Panic Attack, Anxiety Disorder

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 202
• Professor: Tsasha Awong

Document Summary

* many people adopt a failure analysis approach to mental disorders and examine breakdowns in adaptation to help them understand healthy functioning. * many different criterion for mental disorders including * statistical rarity: such as schizophrenia, uncommon in population; however, many are common. * subjective distress: most mental disorders create emotional pain and distress, but some such as bipolar disorder can make people feel better than normal at times. * impairment: interference with people"s ability to function, destroys relationships and jobs, but can"t define a mental illness because many things can do this such as laziness. * societal disapproval: attachment of negative labels to people who seem questionable, however other things can be disproved by society and aren"t mental illnesses (ex. racism) * biological dysfunction: mental disorders can be due to breakdowns of physiological systems (ex. schizophrenia is due to under-activity in frontal lobes) but some are due to experience and genes (ex.