PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Intellectual Disability, Mental Health Professional
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Mood disorders are closely related to anxiety disorders. Co-morbid: happen at the same time, pathologies that occur together. Psycho-physiological disorder: commonly called multiple personality disorder, it doesn"t exist anymore on dsm3. Mind altering drugs: alter the ways you think and behave. Behaviour: things that you do, for example: aggression, studying, not studying, movement, smiling, happy, memory, memory is abehaviour to memorize. Personality disorder: long standing, inflexible, maladaptive, personality traits that impair social and occupational functional. are recognized by dsm4 as fairly permanent conditions, most come and go. Schitzophrenia: a group of psychotic disorders,characterized by major disturbances and thought, emotion and behaviour Anti-social disorder: person may be classified as psychopath. Psychosis: detachment from reality, present but in own type of world. Thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. Examination of the definition of norma using: statistical criteria, to define what abnormal behaviour is. For example: behaviour test (intelligence quotient (iq)) (norm).
