CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Autism Spectrum, Major Depressive Disorder

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Stuart Phillips

Document Summary

Dangers of labeling stigmas are often attached to the label of psychological disorder. 70% of those with disorders do not seek treatment. Seeking treatment is a weakness in some cultures. Education is not very effective in dispelling myths regarding disorders stigmas are culturally mediated clinicians must be careful when diagnosing for these reasons. Obsessive compulsive disorder: obsessions, behaviors designed to fend off those thoughts, process keeps going on and on, higher among women than men, Schizophrenia some important changes in most recent version of dsm. Bipolar disorder is no longer a mood disorder. It sits between schizophrenia spectrum disorders and depressive disorders. Ocd and ptsd are no longer anxiety disorders - before they were because they were characterized by fear and worry, now separate. Autism spectrum disorder: different classifications, now there is a spectrum, symptoms now classified- mild to severe.