PSYC 2030U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychoactive Drug, Cognitive Therapy, Antisocial Personality Disorder
Document Summary
Lecture 4 classification and diagnosis, and psychological intervention. Necessary for research and advancing scientific understandings. Epidemiology study of frequency of disorders in populations. Prevalence proportion of people who have a diagnosis at any given time: there"s concern normal" individuals are not being diagnosed properly when rates increase dramatically. Comorbidity defined as the co-concurrence of different disorders: makes treatment planning more difficult, higher co-morbidity raises concern the disorder is not distinct. Continuity between normal and abnormal behaviour not taken into consideration. Categorical if person has/doesn"t have disorder and whether to start/not start treatment. Dimensional when disorders have levels such as mild to severe; less comorbidity since measures are on a continuum, not all or none. Prevention of thorough evaluation or comprehensive treatment plan. Too many disorders: won"t know where to categorize someone, leads to stigmatization. Sanism negative stereotyping of people who are identified as mentally ill.
