PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Major Depressive Episode
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Prognosis a forecast about the probable course of an illness. what their society considers acceptable. Behavior people are judged to have a psychological disorder because their everyday adaptive behaviour is impaired. (eg. from drugs) : & personal distress this is usually the criterion met by people who are troubled by depression or anxiety disorders, as you may have already noticed, diagnoses of psychological disorders involve value judgments about what represents normal or abnormal behaviour, difficult to distinguish between normal and abnormal, everyone on occasion displays l. abnormal behaviour. People are judged to have psychological disorders only when their behaviour becomes extremely deviant, maladaptive, or distressing: decisions upon if a person is normal or abnormal is based off social norms of the. Time: psychological disorders stereotypes = psychological disorders are incurable, people with psychological disorders are often violent and dangerous, & people with. Psychological disorders behave in bizarre ways and are very different from normal.
