PSYCH 2AP3 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Etiology, Dsm-5, Memory
20 Nov 2018
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Impairment criteria: symptoms impair social, occupational, or other domains of functioning, or endanger self or other. Personal distress criteria: symptoms cause significant concern for the individual: what about those dangerous to self or others, or detached from reality, who are not concerned, what a(cid:271)out thi(cid:374)gs that distur(cid:271) us that do(cid:374)(cid:859)t see(cid:373) pathologi(cid:272)al. Fuzzy continuum of abnormality: not autism, instead: autism spectrum, notion of abnormality is dependent on the agreement of psychologists and the psychiatrists. Pressure to include symptoms as disorder in dsm: they are insurance, because they will only get paid for if they are included in dsm. Medical model (biomedical model): abnormality caused by physical problems in the brain. Causes of any mental disorder are physical (a physical cause: mad hatter in alice in wonderland: they show him as being poisoned by mercury, that has caused his. Therefore, they need a physical and pharmacological treatment (physical intervention) odd behaviour: autism and are treated as physical treatment.
