PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture 4: Abnormal psychology introduction cont'd
16 Jan 2019
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nos problem: not otherwise specified, mood disorders, depressive disorders, miscellaneous category, largest portion of diagnoses. Straddled category problem: there are some diagnostic labels that combine symptoms from one major category from another major category, e. g. , schizo-affective disorder. Some symptoms involve sz, other symptoms involve mood disorders (depression) Inclusion of symptoms that don"t seem like "mental disorders: childhood learning disorders, children who are behind their grade level in their mathematical level is considered a. "mental disorder: sleep disorders, oversleeping, difficulty sleeping, substance-related disorders, alcoholism, addictions. Intellectual developmental disorders (formerly mental retardation: we often know the cause of these disorders - generally genetic causes, do we want to think of this as a mental disorder, oppositional defiant disorder. If you pretend that you have a mental disorder by mimicking the symptoms of the mental disorder is factitious and is a mental disorder: pretending to have a mental disorder is a mental disorder.
