PSY 602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Autism Spectrum, Developmental Psychopathology, Bipolar Disorder
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Obsession with causes, models, and diagnoses can occlude meaning. Hopelessness and despair (depression) severe restrictions of life experience (anxiety disorders) Unsatisfied with the way one looks severe isolation (asd) Don"t understand other people squandered opportunities and physical health decrements (substance use/abuse) Difference between those with intellectual disabilities and those with psychological disabilities. Dsm-5: individual must be experiencing more than 5 symptoms during the same 2-week period and at least one of the symptoms should be either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure. Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day. Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day. Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain, or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every day. A slowing down of thought and a reduction of physical movement. Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day.