PSYCH 2AP3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Insulin Shock Therapy, Anna Freud, Dorothea Dix
30 Mar 2016
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Personal distress is not itself an indicator of abnormal behaviour. Atypical behaviour is not sufficient to diagnose a disorder: deviant behaviour may be tolerated in certain situations (fame, eccentricity, talented, different cultures) Evaluate their own assessments/treatments to see if they work. Clinical description: patients present a specific problem presenting problem, clinical description represents the unique combination of behaviours, thoughts, and feelings that make up a specific disorder. Chronic course: tend to last a long time. Episodic course: recovery is likely to occur after a few months. Time-limited course: recovery is likely to occur in a very short period of time: differences in onset. Causation, treatment, and outcomes: etiology: study of origins. Biological model: hippocrates and galen humoral theory of disorders. First instance linking disorders to chemical imbalances. Blood (heart), black bile (spleen), yellow bile (liver), phlegm (brain) Excess of humors was treated by regulating the environment by changing heat, moisture levels.
