PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mental Disorder, Medical Model, Learning Disability
14 Mar 2016
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Ethical considerations constraints research for humans with mental disorder because they are much more vulnerable than normal people. If these ethical constraints are lifted, the questions can be answered quickly. Researchers deal with animal mental disorders- mouse with depression; we can use them to answer questions; can"t be sure how could these models are. They are imperfect models because they cannot duplicate the psychological symptoms of humans. Each mental disorder has a different cause; however this is not entirely true because it is possible for symptoms to overlap with various mental disorders; vary same causes can lead to same symptoms. Do not know why disorders come to be, or how medication works. Make you a skilled diagnostician the more experience, the less certain you are about a diagnosis. There is not a clear answer to this. There have been a number of different criteria used. There are 2 criteria; impairment criteria: individual must be impaired in one sense or another.
