PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Mood Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Insomnia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

Psychological disorders are viewed as patterns of thoughts, feelings, or actions that are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional. A harmful dysfunction that shows one or more of 4 criterion: criterion, 1. Deviation from statistical norms: a typical behavior: 2. Deviation from social norms: behavior is disturbing: 3 maladaptiveness of behavior: does behavior affect well being of individual/social group, 4. In the middle ages they thought of disorders to be a curse of the demon and would do horrible things to take it out of people. Applying a medical model to understand psychological disorders. They look for symptoms, with test, and treatment is based of the diagnosis. They see psychological disorders as similar to physical ones 1. Madness is not demon possession but a sickness of the mind cause by severe stresses and inhumane conditions. 1800s the medical world began searching for physical causes and treatments of mental disorders.