PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Major Depressive Episode, Major Depressive Disorder
18 Apr 2017
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The demonic model - view of mental illness in which odd behaviour, hearing voices, or talking to oneself was attributed to evil spirits infesting the body. Medical model - view of mental illness as due to a physical disorder requiring medical treatment. Asylum - institution for people with mental illnesses created in the 15th century. Moral treatment - approach to mental illness calling for dignity, kindness, and respect for those with mental illness. Labelling theorists - scholars who argue that psychiatric diagnoses exert powerful negative effects on people"s perceptions and behaviours. Stigma: notes on the management of a spoiled identity. Discredited: stigma is known to others, so no one is already socially devalued, biases perceptions. Discreditable: stigma is not know to others, so no one is hypervigilant to cues that could reveal it. Involuntary commitment - procedure of placing some people with mental illnesses in a psychiatric hospital or other facility based against their will.
