PSYCH 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Histrionic Personality Disorder, Psychosis, Psychopathy
2 Dec 2016
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Mental disorder: a persistent disturbance or dysfunction in behavior, thoughts, or emotions that causes significant distress or impairment, trouble with perception, memory, learning, emotion, motivation, thinking and social processes, length of persistence is debated. Conceptualizing mental disorders: some cultures view psychopathology as result of religious or supernatural forces, medical model. Abnormal psychological experiences are conceptualized as illnesses that, like physical illnesses. Assessing signs (objectively observed indicators of disorder) Symptoms (subjectively reported behaviors, thoughts, and emotions) Differences among three related general medical/classification terms: Determination as to whether a disorder or disease is present. Just knowing disorder is present, does not mean disease is known: criticisms of medical model. Inappropriate to use subject self-report rather than physical tests. Model often medicalizes or pathologizes normal human behavior. Classifying disorders: the dsm: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) Classification system that describes the diagnostic criteria used to diagnose each recognized mental disorder. Indicates how disorder can be distinguished from other, similar problems.
