PSYC 357 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Schizoaffective Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder
25 Mar 2013
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Criteria used to judge behavior as abnormal include feeling personal or subjective distress, being impaired in everyday life, causing a risk to the self or other people, and engaging in behavior that is social or culturally unacceptable. Category of psychological disorders includes the range of behaviors and experiences that fall outside of social norms, create adaptation difficulty for the individual on a daily basis and put the individual/others at risk for harm. Axis i includes all major clinical syndromes: collections of symptoms that together form a recognizable pattern or disturbance comparable to an illness in medical terms. Axis ii includes disturbances that are of a more chronic or long standing nature, personality disorders. Axis iii ratings used to characterize medical conditions that, although not the primary focus of treatment, have a bearing on the clients psychological condition. Axis iv- used to rate psychological stressors and environmental problems.
