PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Psychiatric Epidemiology
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Past decade use of antianxiety and antidepressant medication has increased significantly. 2010 17 000 canadians admitted to hospital for suicide/self-injury attempts. Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Dallaire earliest scientist funded by un to go to rwanda and ended up being diagnosed with. Ptsd since he was unable to help anyone targeted by the genocide. Being mentally ill or having a disorder carries a stigma that is hard to shake. Medical mode disease analogy converts social into medical questions: diagnosis involves distinguishing one illness from another, etiology apparent causation and developmental history of an illness, prognosis forecast of probably course of an illness. Criteria of abnormal behaviour: there is specific criteria in order to make a diagnosis/judgement of abnormality: Deviance from social norms is different from what society determines as acceptable. Maladaptive behaviour everyday adaptive behaviour becomes impaired. Normal" people true only for a minority group with severe disorders.
