PSYC 100 Lecture 21: Week 21 (Online Lesson Material)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

After working through this lesson"s material, you should be able to: Evaluate the classification of mental disorders: explain the importance of classifying psychological disorders, describe the classification system of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-5) and the pros and cons of this classification system. Describe anxiety disorders, ocd, ptsd, somatic-related, and dissociative disorders: explain the nature and evolutionary purpose of anxiety. In this lesson, we will begin to examine mental disorders. We will discuss how psychologists diagnose mental disorders, the diagnostic system that health professionals currently use to classify them, and the role of genes and the environment in their development. What it means to have a mental disorder . Apply the "harmful dysfunction" criteria used to identify the presence of a mental disorder. Describe the ways genes and environment interact to produce mental disorders. Describe how the behaviour produced by mental illness is maladaptive. In this topic, we will examine the characteristics of mental disorders.