PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sertraline, Conduct Disorder, Tantrum

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Carver Charles

Document Summary

B-d. issue of adaptive versus maladaptive: adaptive: helps you get along, maladaptive: keeps you from getting along, modes in ways symptoms can be displayed. * symptoms of stress and symptoms of psychopathology. They differ in degree, not content: classification by symptoms: diagnosis, diagnosis can suggest a basis for the problems, diagnosis can suggest a way to proceed in treatment, diagnosis can inform about prognosis (chance of cure) Diagnostic and statistical manual (dsm-5)- list of specific criteria for diagnoses. Comorbidity- multiple disorders diagnosed at the same time. Same symptoms may apply to more than 1 disorder. Effort to establish functional dimensions that cross cut- trans diagnostic. Dimensional underpinnings of multiple disorders, halfway step to a fully. Dms is a laundry list of 20 disorder types dimensioned system. Categories of disorder (in no special order: autism spectrum disorders. Childhood onset, remains in adulthood: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (adhd) Two forms of presentation: inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity.