HSCI 214 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Psychoactive Drug
4 Apr 2016
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Chapter 4 the spectrum of mental health problems. Mental health problems refers to diminished capaciies that interfere with person"s enjoyment of life or afects interacion with society and environment. Mental disorders/illnesses changes in behavioural or emoional funcions that are linked to some distress, sufering or impairment in areas of funcioning (school, work, social, family) Systems of diagnosic classiicaion: two classiicaion systems internaional classiicaion of diseases (icd), diagnosic and. Dsm address psychiatric disorders, used exclusively in na. Problems with reliability and validity: reliability consistency of results when a measurement is repeated, validity whether a measure really captures what it purports to measure, diagnosis of diseases could be wrong; vague, arbitrary, unscieniic. Efects of labelling: labelling theory tendency of dominant groups to label minority groups negaively. Cultural relaivity: classiicaion of mental disorder developed in one culture may not be applicable to other cultural groups. Poliical and economic misuses of diagnosis: imprisoned individuals for poliical purposes by falsely applying diagnosis of mental illness.
