PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: John Wayne Gacy, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder
2 Apr 2016
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Chapter outline: deining, classifying, and diagnosing psychological abnormality, models of abnormality, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, other disorders. No universal deiniion of what is abnormal behaviour. Danger most people with disorders are not a danger to themselves or others, but people who put themselves or others at risk may have a disorder. System used by most countries to classify psychological disorders; published by the. World health organizaion and currently in its tenth ediion. Diagnosic and staisical manual of mental disorders (dsm-iv-tr): Manual used to diagnose mental disorders in north america. Provides a categorical list of symptoms for all 400 mental disorders. Diagnosis idenifying a disorder by its symptoms and other evidence. Five dimensions or axes of the dsm-iv-tr. Axis i contains the detailed criteria for the principal disorders. Axis ii includes criteria relaing to longer-term disorders (personality disorders, learning disabiliies, etc. )
