PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviours as a disease. Includes terms: mental illness, psychological disorder and psychopathology. Prior to 18th century, ab was based on superstition. Diagnosis involved distinguishing one illness from another. Etiology refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis forecast about the probably course of an illness. Transvestic fetishism sexual disorder in which a man achieves sexual arousal by dressing in women"s clothing: maladaptive behaviour. Diagnosis of substance abuse disorders: personal distress. Based on individual"s report of great personal distress. 643: 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 people. Axis ii personality disorders or mental retardation. Axis v global assessment of functioning (gaf) scale. Diagnoses of disorders are made on axes i and ii. Record most types of disorders on axis i.
