PSYC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Specific Phobia, Natural Environment, Agoraphobia
14 Jun 2016
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Abnormal behavior characterized as: not typical, maladaptive, interferes with person"s ability to function, distressing to the person who exhibits it or to the person"s friends and family, socially unacceptable. The terminology reflects the medical model approach to psychological disorders: diagnosis involves distinguishing one illness from another . Etiology refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness : prognosis is a forecast about the probable course of an illness . 8 pseudo patients claimed to hear voices. Stopped reporting symptoms: normal behaviors were interpreted as pathologic, doctors rarely responded to questions, many real patients were not fooled. This white 39-year-old male manifests a long history of considerable ambivalence in close relationships, which begins in early childhood. A warm relationship with his mother cools during his adolescence. A distant relationship with his father is described as becoming very intense.
