PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

World health organizaion (who) reports that, worldwide, ~450 million people sufer from mental or behavioral disorders. Rates and symptoms of psychological disorders vary by culture: no known society is free of: 1) depression, 2) schizophrenia. Psychological disorders = deviant, distressful, and dysfuncional paterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviours: deviant = being diferent from most other people. Standards for deviant behaviour vary by context and by culture: context: warime mass killing = normal/heroic, time: 1952-1973 homosexuality classiied as an illness. Later revealed that sigma/stress accompanying homosexuality, inc the risk of mental health probs. To be considered disorders, deviant behaviour usu causes the person distress: + also judged to be a harmful dysfuncion, ex. An intense fear of spiders may be deviant, but if it doesn"t impair your life it is not a disorder. Atenion-deicit hyperacivity disorder (adhd) = a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inatenion, hyperacivity, and impulsivity.