PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Hypochondriasis, Biology Of Depression, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
22 Jun 2016
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At certain times, individuals suffering from bipolar may feel no distress: dysfunction o behaviour interferes with the ability of a person to function in their daily lives. Mal-adaptive behaviours which inhibit individuals from adapting to their environments: psychological disorders often cause dysfunction in everyday tasks. Classifying disorders: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Practitioners use this book as a guideline for identifying disorders. Provides standardized criteria to aid in the diagnosis of psychological disorders. The disordered behaviour must be a result of the person and not the surroundings they are in: disorder is involuntary and the sufferer is unable to control symptoms experienced. Categories in the dsm: dsm groups together disorders which display similar symptoms. Similarity suggests a common cause which may be similarly treated: dsm is not fixed, based on new findings the dsm changes. The dsm only describes a pattern of symptoms. It can only be used to identify the illness.
