PSYCH 133B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: National Comorbidity Survey, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Disorder
3 May 2016
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Chapter one: examples and definitions of abnormal behavior. Is it more common in one geographic area than another b: are certain types of people at greater risk? d. 3: currently cannot be identified by laboratory tests processes not known yet. Impairment in the ability to perform social and occupational roles. Unusually talkative or artistic ability: harmful dysfunction, criteria of mental disorder (jerome wakefield) Condition results from inability of some internal mechanism (mental/physical) to perform its natural function. Condition causes some harm to the person. Not every dysfunction = disorder must be harmful. Albinism is physical dysfunction not harmful/not disorder. Absence of disorder: efforts to diminish frequency/impact of mental disorders + activities to promote flourishing, culture and diagnostic practice, ex. Alcoholics anonymous: types, psychiatry branch of medicine that is concerned w/ study + treatment of mental disorders. Medical school + residency able to prescribe medicine: clinical psychology application of psychological science to the assessment and treatment of mental disorders.
