PSYCH 112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: American Psychiatric Association, Involuntary Commitment, Superficial Charm
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Demonic model: view of mental illness in which behaving oddly, hearing voices, or talking to oneself was attributed to evil spirits infesting the body. Medical model: view of mental illness as due to a physical disorder requiring medical treatment. Asylum: institution for people with mental illness created in 15th century. Moral approach: approach to mental illness calling for dignity, kindness, and respect for those with mental illness. Deinstitutionalization: 1960s and 70s governmental policy that focused on releasing hospitalized psychiatric patients into the community and closing mental hospitals. Labeling theorists: scholars who argue that psychiatric diagnoses exert powerful negative effects on people"s perceptions and behaviors. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm): diagnostic system containing the american psychiatric association criteria for mental disorders. Prevalence: percentage of people within a population who have a specific mental disorder. Comorbidity: co-occurrence of two or more diagnoses within the same person. Categorical model: mental disorder differs from normal functioning in kind rather than degree.
