PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bipolar Disorder, Mental Disorder, Personality Disorder
25 Sep 2018
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Criteria of abnormality: how do we decide when somebody is experiencing abnormal behaviour, there is no line between normality/abnormality. Impairment criterion: symptoms impair social, occupational, or other domains of functioning. Common finding that these terrorists (aside from their suicidal tendencies) are found psychologically healthy. There is no guideline saying you have to be x% impaired in order to be considered impaired. A diagnostic label will follow your medical history for the rest of your life. We may be distressed about things that are never going to get a diagnostic. Summary re criteria label: no clear line between normalcy and disorder, abnormality" based on agreement of psychologists and psychiatrists, pressures to include symptoms as disorders in dsm. There are many things in the dsm that people believe shouldn"t be there. If you want health insurance to cover treatment of a mental problem it must.
