PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hypomania, Psychopharmacology, Caudate Nucleus

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

Research-based field aimed at understanding, preventing and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction: clinicians, researchers. Require phds: alternatives: counseling psychology, school psychology, social worker, etc. Psychological or behavioral patterns that are generally associated with subjective distress or disability, and which are not a part of typical development or culture. Syndrome is considered a mental disorder if: Why should we care about mental disorders: greatest proportion of disability in developed countries. 1 in 5 north americans have received treatment at some point. 1 in 2 will experience some form of a mental disorder at some point. 7% considered severe (prevent you from working, having a typical life) Predisposing causes: in place before onset inherited characteristic learned beliefs. Precipitating causes: immediate events that bring on disorder (stressor) generalized anxiety disorder. One major life stress it"s (cid:374)ot al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s a (cid:271)ad thi(cid:374)g that (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)ri(cid:374)g this o(cid:374: new job, getting married, use of drugs. Perpetuating causes: consequences of disorder keeps the disorder going: ex.