PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder
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Hard to define and explain thought feeling and emotion must be persistent harmful to the person experiencing them and uncontrollable. Identifying psychological disorders: what is abnormal? relative recent. Use to be seen as possession by animal spirots or demons. Dsm-iv-tr is a classifaction system that describe the feature used to diagnose each recognized mental discorder and indicated how the discorder can be distingiushed for other similar problems. Comorbidity: the co-occurrence of two or more mental discorders ina single individual. Most discorders have both internal and external causes. Adiathesis-stress model: person may be predisposed for a psychological discorder that remains unexpressed until triggered by stress. Anxiety discorder: the class of mental discorder in whin anxiety is the predominant feature. Phobic discorders: phobic discorders: marked, persistent and excessive fear and aviodance of specific objects activies or situations, specific phobial irrational fear of a particual object or situation that markedly interferes with an individuals ability to function.
