PSYC 1030H Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Intellectual Disability, Dsm-5, Etiology
11 Apr 2019
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The medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease. Dominant way of thinking in 18th and 19th centuries, influence remains. Those characterized as mentally ill were viewed as erratic, dangerous and incompetent. Etiology refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis is a forecast about the probable course of an illness. Two or three criteria may apply or just one is needed. Everyone expresses deviance but when it is extreme behavior it is an abnormality. Stereotypes of psychological disorders: incurable, treatment fails often but those who do get better outnumber the otherwise, people with psychological disorders are often violent and dangerous. Only a modest portion have tendencies of violence, media enhances this fear. People with disorders behave in bizarre ways and are different from normal people. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) Section 2: the criteria for the main diagnostic categories along with other disorders.
