PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Asperger Syndrome
7 Feb 2017
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Cognitive model: abnormality result from maladaptive ways of thinking, interpreting. Behavioural model says the problem is the behaviour. The cognitive model says that it is the thoughts that underlie the behaviour that are the problem, and the way we interpret them. Treat by changing ways of thinking through practice and reward, called cognitive therapy. Cognitive therapies are the second most commonly employed and the most effective treatments. Candidate disorders: anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, personality disorders. Designed to help diagnosticians to put a label on the conditions their patients displayed. Based on icd-6 (international categorization of disease) Bias toward psychodynamic interpretation because the major treatment of all psychological disorders was psychodynamic, as there were no drugs to treat them. Reduced psychodynamic bias in describing the disorders. Neuroses vs psychoses: two broad categories, psychotic (distant from, alienated from the true objective of reality) or neuroses (anxiety disorders) Atheoretical description of mental disorders with no psychodynamic bias.
