PSYC 2510 Lecture Notes - Postpartum Depression, The Soloist, Brain Damage
2 May 2013
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Ways of defining disorders: deviant violates cultural standards (hallucinations); have to look at the time period, maladaptive or harmful (agoraphobia going out on your own in public places, causing emotional distress (unreasonable anxiety) Disrupts person"s relationship with community (family & friends) In canada, not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder (ncrmd) If person is mentally ill at time of committing offense and unable to know what he/she was doing, that it was wrong, or to be able to control his/her behaviour. Unfit to stand trial: so ill that he/she is unable to participate in the defense or of communicating with lawyer. 5 editions since 1952 (dsm-iv-tr is latest) Dsm 5 something wicked this way comes (disagreement) I: primary clinical problem: eg. anxiety disorder. Ii: personality (minnesota multiphasic personality inventory: eg. dependency. Iii: general medical conditions (physical factors: eg. Iv: social & environmental stressors (social readjustment rating scale: eg. move to a new country to study, lost job.
