PS374 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Social Rejection, Differential Diagnosis, Social Skills
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Chapter 5: applying social psychology to clinical and counselling psychology. Areas of mutual concern to social and clinical psychology: origin of psychological disorders. Factors that contribute to the onset or maintenance of emotional and behavioural problems: diagnosis of psychological disorders. Factors that influence the treatment and prevention of psychological disorders: treatment and prevention of psychological disorders. Study the processes that might cause therapists to be less than 100% objective when diagnosing clients. The origins of psychological disorders: social anxiety (also known as social phobia) Defi(cid:374)ed as (cid:862)(cid:373)a(cid:396)ked fea(cid:396) o(cid:396) a(cid:374)(cid:454)iet(cid:455) a(cid:271)out o(cid:374)e o(cid:396) (cid:373)o(cid:396)e so(cid:272)ial situatio(cid:374)s i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual is e(cid:454)posed to possi(cid:271)le s(cid:272)(cid:396)uti(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:271)(cid:455) othe(cid:396)s(cid:863) Prone to embarrassment when interacting with acquaintances. Feeling dread about having to speak to others whom one does not know well. Can occur in a multitude of situations such as: public speaking, eating in public, face to face interaction.
