PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia
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In canada, almost 7 million people currently live with mental health problems and illness. The medical model applies to abnormal behaviour: the medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviour as a disease. Gradually became the dominant way of thinking about abnormal behaviour during the 18th and 19th centuries. Brought improvements in the treatment of those who exhibited abnormal behaviour; victims were viewed with more sympathy and less hatred and fear. Psychodiagnosis: the classification of disorders: the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm or dsm-5) has three major sections: Assessment measures and criteria for psychological disorders: the dsm-iv employed a multiaxial system of classification, which asked for judgments about individuals on five dimensions, or axes (is also the most widely employed system in north america) People could receive diagnosis on axes i or ii. On axis iv the clinician made notes about the type of stress experienced by the individual in the previous year.
