PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder
8 Apr 2015
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Types of disorders: anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, dissociative disorders, personality disorders, childhood disorders. Demonic model: view of mental illness in which odd behavior, hearing voices, or talking to oneself was attributed to evil spirits infesting the body. Medial model: view of mental illness as due to a physical disorder requiring medical treatment. Institution for people with mental illnesses created in the fifteenth century. Moral treatment mental illness: approach to mental illness calling for dignity, kindness, and respect for those with. Deinstitutionalization: governmental policy in the 1960s and 1970s that focused on releasing hospitalized psychiatric patients into the community and closing mental hospitals. Labelling theorists: scholars who argue that psychiatric diagnoses exert powerful negative effects on people"s perceptions and behaviors. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm: diagnostic system containing the american psychiatric association (apa) criteria for mental disorders. Prevalence: percentage of people within a population who have a specific mental disorder.
