PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Medical Model, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Distressing

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

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Criteria: distress is present: - the person is not really finding is possible to function positivley. Sometimes its physical symtoms: person is suffering, unhappy, behavior is maladaptive a. Impaired functioning - affects behaviour: socially deviant, behaviour is unusual, not normal - when you see an indivudal talkign to an imaginary person, and havign a cnversation, you don"t have a doubt that this is odd. Classification: dsm-v - every single disorder someone can have, symptons needed to be present, and fa history etc. Deviation from statistical average - seems to be kind of subjective. If your behaviour is deviant enough, so then the prson is clearly distressed abotu what is going on. Individual has impaired thought processes and cannot function socially. Fear is a normal reaction to a known, external source of danger. In anxiety, the individual is frightened but the source of the danger is not known, not recognized, or inadequate to account for the symptoms.