PSYC 385- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 98 pages long!)
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Points to remember: no one element is sufficient to define or determine abnormality, definition of abnormality changes as society changes. What makes a disorder a disorder: the dsm-5 definition: Mental disorder: biological psychological or developmental dysfunction in individual, disturbance in behavior, emotional regulation, or cognitive function, associated with clinically significant distress or impaired functioning. Epidemiology the study of distribution of diseases, disorders, or health-related behaviors in a given population. Prevalence: number of active cases in population during any given period of time, typically expressed as percentages, different types of prevalence estimates. Incidence: number of new cases in population over a given period of time: incidence figures are typically lower than prevalence figures. Incidence: ex: randomly select 100 representative persons , diagnostic interview: new onset depressive episode in past 12 months, exclude pre-existing cases. Understand they might be underestimating the prevalence rate.
