PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 47-56: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

At various moments, all of us think, act and feel the way disturbed people do much of the time. To study the abnormal is the best way of understand the normal . Who reports that, worldwide, 450 million people suffer from mental or behavioral disorders, and accounts for 15. 4% of the yll due to disability or disorder, scoring below cvd and above cancer. Mental health workers view psychological disorders as patterns of thoughts, feelings or actions that are deviant, distressful and dysfunctional. Being different (deviant) from most people in ones culture is a part if what it takes to define a psych disorder, standards for deviant behavior vary by context and by culture. Ie, war time mass killing, hearing voices in their head. Standards also very with time, homosexuality was once view as a pscyh disorder, how ever now the american psychiatric association has dropped homosexuality as a disorder.