PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 47,49,51: Avoidant Personality Disorder, Genetic Linkage, Mental Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Psychological disorders: monday november 18, 2013 and wednesday november. In canada, suicide is one of the leading causes of death in both men and women from adolescence to middle ages. Until 1986, homosexuality was considered a psychological disorder by the. 20% of canadians will experience mental illness in their lifetime. Sociological model: disorders are psychological processes (e. g. trauma, cognitions, defenses) not reducible to the body/brain, disorders are social roles associated with being ill or illness labels (e. g. being labelled mentally ill); social/cultural norms. Defines diagnostic process and 16 clinical syndromes. Shifting research paradigm to favour neuroscience (medical. Americans suffer from diagnosable mental disorders in a given year: who study estimated in 2004 that the us has the highest rate of mental health disorders and shanghai has the lowest, schizophrenia leads to poverty. Mood disorders: major depressive disorder prolonged hopelessness and lethargy, bipolar disorder a person alternates between depression and mania (an excited, hyperactive state)