Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Personal Distress, Personality Disorder, Big Five Personality Traits

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

The scope and nature of psychological disorders: psychological disorders have a major impact on individual and societal well-being. In most instances, a predisposition creates a disorder only when a stressor some recent/current event that requires a person to cope combines with the vulnerability to trigger the disorder. Chapter 16 notes: moreover, the dimensional severity ratings given to the behaviors involved in each diagnostic category will result in a fine-grained description that better reflects each person"s individuality while also helping clinicians develop an effecting treatment strategy. Critical issues in diagnostic labelling: diagnostic labels have important personal, social & legal consequences. Likely to affect how we will interact with the person. Phobic disorder: phobias are strong and irrational fears of certain objects or situations, people with phobias realize that their fears are out of all proportion to the danger involved, but they feel helpless to deal with these feats.