PSYC 100B Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Autism Spectrum, Social Anxiety Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100B
• Professor: Chim Louise

Document Summary

Psychological disorder: a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behaviour. The stress that homosexuality induces can lead to mental health problems. If a behaviour is maladaptive (interferes with day-to-day life) then it is most likely a disorder. Brutal treatments of those with mental health issues worsen the issues. The discovery that syphilis affects the brain caused reform amongst how psychological disorders were treated. Medical model: the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital. Medical perspective has gained credibility from discoveries that genetically influenced abnormalities in brain structure and biochemistry contribute to many disorders. Symptoms of schizophrenia include irrationality and incoherent speech. Anorexia and bulimia occur mostly in food-abundant western cultures. Epigenetics: the study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without dna change.