PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Aaron T. Beck, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 103
• Professor: annemoyer

Document Summary

What is abnormal : criteria, distress / impaired functioning, maladaptiveness, irrationality, unpredictability, unconventionality / statistical rarity, observer discomfort, violation of moral and ideal standards, neither necessary nor sufficient condition, issues of objectivity. Content & context of behavior: continuum. It"s best to view normal and abnormal behaviors as endpoints on a continuum, rather than distinct categories. Classification system: dsm-iv-tr and v: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, (2000 and 2013, emphasis: description of symptoms and courses of disorders rather than etiology or treatment strategies, changes in the diagnostic categories (e. g. , homosexuality) Clear understanding and effective communication among mental health professionals: understanding of etiology (causality, treatment planning. Disadvantages of classification: social stigma: risk of labeling , thomas szasz: medical labels allow merely social problems to be treated as deviant, power of labeling david rosenhan"s study on being sane in insane places .