Week 11 Notes
Psychological disorders -
What is abnormal?
Strange within person’s culture?
Causing personal distress?
Maladaptive?
Danger to self or others?
Legally responsible for own acts?
Perspectives on Causes
Biological
Psychodynamic
Learning
Cognitive
Humanistic
Psychological disorders
DSM-5 = diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
Enables professionals to speak same language when diagnosing, treating, researching,
conversing about variety of psychological disorders.
Describes 300 mental disorders.
Neurosis = Obsolete term
Personal distress, impairment in functioning, no loss of contact with reality or violation
of social norms.
Psychosis = loss of contact with reality, delusions, hallucinations, impaired ability to
function.
Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: When Anxiety is extreme -
Anxiety disorders
Anxiety = vague, general uneasiness, feeling something bad about to happen
Anxiety disorders + obsessive-compulsive + related disorders = most common
category of mental disorders in Canada.
Affect 12 percent of Canadians.
Psychological disorders -
What is abnormal?
Strange within person’s culture?
Causing personal distress?
Maladaptive?
Danger to self or others?
Legally responsible for own acts?
Perspectives on Causes
Biological
Psychodynamic
Learning
Cognitive
Humanistic
Psychological disorders
DSM-5 = diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
Enables professionals to speak same language when diagnosing, treating, researching,
conversing about variety of psychological disorders.
Describes 300 mental disorders.
Neurosis = Obsolete term
Personal distress, impairment in functioning, no loss of contact with reality or violation
of social norms.
Psychosis = loss of contact with reality, delusions, hallucinations, impaired ability to
function.
Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: When Anxiety is extreme -
Anxiety disorders
Anxiety = vague, general uneasiness, feeling something bad about to happen
Anxiety disorders + obsessive-compulsive + related disorders = most common
category of mental disorders in Canada.
Affect 12 percent of Canadians.
