PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

Asylums: residential facilities for the mentally ill. According to the dsm-iv-tr (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4 th ed. abnormal describes behavioural, emotional, or cognitive dysfunctions that are unexpected in their cultural context and associated with personal distress or substantial impairment in functioning. The scientific study of abnormal behaviour, with the objective to: describe, explain, predict, and control. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm): a standardized manual to aid in the diagnosis of disorders: dsm-5 describes three (3) important pieces of information for each disorder: A set and number of symptoms that must be met in order to have the disorder. The etiology origins or causes of the symptoms. A prognosis or prediction of how these symptoms will persist or change over time. Mental health professionals include: clinical psychologists (ph. d, c. The mental disorder defence (aka the insanity defence)