PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1, 2, 5: Canadian Mental Health Association, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Franz Mesmer
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Chapter 1 introduction: definitional and historical considerations and canada"s (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal health syste(cid:373) Psychopathology: the field concerned with the nature and development of abnormal behavior, thoughts, and feelings. Impairment in some important area of life because of an abnormality: unexpectedness, distress and disability are considered abnormal when they are unexpected responses to environmental stressors. Intervention and consultation: clinical psychologists learn skills in two additional areas. Techniques of assessment and diagnosis of mental disorders. Engage with psychoactive drugs, chemical compounds that can influence how people feel and think: psychoanalyst: received specialized training at a psychoanalytic institute, social worker: obtains an m. s. w(master of social work) degree. Programs for counselling psychologists are somewhat like graduate training in clinical psychology but usually have less emphasis on research. Somatogenesis: the notion that something wrong with the soma, or physical body, disturbs thoughts and action, psychogenesis: the belief that a disturbance has psychological origins, hippocrates classified mental disorders into three categories, mania, melancholia, phrenitis.
