PSY 1305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder
30 Nov 2016
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Psychological disorders are marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior. Disturbed or dysfunctional thoughts, emotions, or behaviors are maladaptive. Trephination ( surgical intervention where a hole is drilled, incised or scraped into the skull) The medical model the set of all procedures in which all doctors or professionals are trained. Dsm-5 (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders) Mental disorders seldom lead to violence and clinical prediction of violence is unreliable. Psychological disorder rates vary, depending on the time and the place of the survey. Disorders start normally before of around 24 years old. Women are more likely to have the internalizing disorders. 43. 5 million adults could be diagnosed with a mental illness. Six or more of the following symptoms that have persisted for at least 6 months. Boys are more likely to have it than girls. Continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of constant autonomic nervous system arousal.
