HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pyromania, Social Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder
23 Jan 2018
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Lecture 3: how do we define mental health and illness? (cont"d) Dsm - acts as a key to understand (ab)normal behaviour. Consistent growth since 1st edition - approx. More and more disorders are becoming known as mental illnesses. O cial, accepted account of disorders - list of disorders and list of criteria that patient must. From psychodynamic to symptomatic focus - constructed to be simple to use and be straightforward. A mental disorder is a syndrome characterized by clinically signi cant disturbance in an individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behaviour that re ects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. Mental disorders are usually associated with signi cant distress or disability in social, occupational or other important activities . Measure clinically signi cant disturbances - clinician is determining this - very powerful role. De ned as a mental disorder by expression, not cause.
