PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Mental Disorder, Dsm-5, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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Apply the three-prong criteria to identify the presence of a mental disorder. External: outside factors , internal: coming from within. Voluntary: purposely doing , not: something you can"t control. Clinically significant: symptoms are considered clinically significant if a clinician judges them to be sufficiently significant, marked, or substantial in intensity or duration that the patient would benefit from professional treatment. Describe the ways genes and environment interact to produce mental disorders (i. e. , diathesis-stress model) Dsm-5: the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) outlines the various mental disorders and the specific criteria required for each disorder diagnosis. You can be genetically more prone to mental illnesses, but environmental factors can also affect you. Example: two people can go through the same traumatic experience in life but have outcomes, one can have a mental disorder and the other would not because of their genetics. Describe how the behaviour of people with psychological illness is maladaptive.