PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder
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The medical model, which assumes that it is useful to view abnormal behaviour as a disease, led to more humane treatment for people who exhibited abnormal behaviour. However, the medical model has been criicised on the grounds that it converts moral and social quesions into medical quesions. Judgements of abnormality are based on three criteria: The most common types of disorders are substance-use, anxiety and mood disorders. Dsm-iv, which was released in 1994, is the oicial psychodiagnosic classiicaion system. In dsm-iv informaion on paients is recorded on ive axes: Work is underway on dsm-5, which may supplement the current categorical approach with a dimensional approach. Generalized anxiety disorder is marked by chronic, high anxiety not ied to a speciic threat. Phobic disorder is marked by a persistent, irraional fear of an object or situaion that is not dangerous. Panic disorder involves recurrent, sudden anxiety atacks, and is oten accompanied by agoraphobia.
