SOC 2070 Chapter 12: SOC 2070 - Chapter 12.docx
22 Nov 2013
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Not behaviour; mental condition that manifests itself into behaviours, thought patterns, verbal utterances. Mental disorder is a set of conditions that exhibits itself in a wide range of behaviours. Mental illness not used in index of american psychiactric association"s diagnostic and. Statistical manual: psychiatry/psych professionals prefer term of mental disorder . Sociologists study: epidimology the distribution of mental disorders in the population. No single factor or variable relates to all mental disorders. Some social characteristics are stat. related to mental illness. Book refers to mental disorder as schizophrenia and depression. Issues diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-iv) Does not define mental disorder, lists a range of mental disorders/symptoms. Due to present distress, disability, suffering, loss of freedom. Deviant behaviour does not mean mental illness political radicalism, heterodoxy(ex: atheism), homosexuality. Must avoid disregarding individual cultural frame of reference. Original issue listed 100 disorders; current issue listsed 300+ disorders. Diagnosed in infancy/childhood/adolescence mental retardation, learning disorders, autism, add, tourettes syndrome.
