PSY-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Endocrine Disease, Trepanning, Mental Disorder
Document Summary
Mental health workers view psychological disorders as persistently harmful thoughts, feelings, and action: deviance behaving in a way that is deviating from societal norms, maladaptive, self-destructive, discomfort/concern in others. There are 450 million people suffering from psychological disorders. Depression and schizophrenia exist in all cultures of the world. 1 in 4 american adults has a diagnosable psychological disorder in a given year. Nearly 1 in 2 americans will have some psychological disorder in their lives. Only about 7% of us adults are severely affected: also, comorbidity issues. Ancient treatments include trephination, exorcism, being caged like animals, beaten, burned, mutilated (thought supernatural forces were the cause) Trephination boring holes in the skull to remove evil forces. Diathesis vulnerability to mental disorder (childhood trauma, prenatal issues) Vulnerability to mental disorder + inability to cope with excessive stressful circumstances higher probability of mental disorder. Assessment: examination of a person"s cognitive, behavioral, or emotional functioning to diagnose possible psychological disorders.
