PSYC 1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Mania
5 Apr 2017
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One in five canadians experience mental illness or problems. Almost 7 million canadians are currently living with mental health problems or illness. Use of antianxiety and antidepressant medications has increased significantly in the past decade. Mental illness costs canada at least 50 billion annually and will cost us 2. 5 trillion over the next three decades. The number of veterans given pensions because of ptsd has increased. 50 veteran suicides between 2005 and 2009. The medical model: proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviour as a disease. Point of view is the basis for terms used to describe abnormal behaviour like mental illness or psychological disorder. Prior to the 18th century most conceptions of abnormal behaviour were based on superstition (possessed by demons, to be witches, or victims of gods punishment) Critics of the medical model say it could pin potentially derogatory labels on people. Stigmatization of mental disorders has remained stable or perhaps even increased.
