PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 15
Document Summary
Defining psychological disorders: psychological disorder: deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional, patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors, classification changes across culture and time. Understanding psychological disorders: medical model: the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases. Classifying psychological disorders: dsm-iv-tr: the american psychiatric associations diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition, with an updated text revision ; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. Labeling psychological disorders: labels can sometimes interfere with ability to live a normal life as much as the disorder itself. When your adult and have add it sometimes makes it harder for you to get a job and as a kid youre treated differently in the classroom. Anxiety disorders: anxiety disorders: psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistant anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.
