PSYC 238- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 238
• Professor: Lyubansky Mikhail

Document Summary

Differing viewpoints: problems in living, harmful dysfunction, 4d"s deviance, distress, dysfunction, dangerousness, psychopathology, biopsychosocial. History of dsm: medical model, disorder categories. Mental illness a natural concept in which the boundaries we define are fuzzy. Abnormal behavior: symptoms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that indicate a mental disorder, syndrome a group of signs and symptoms that tend to co-occur and are assumed to have a common etiology or cause. Dsm: current distress, disability, risk in suffering, death, pain, disability, important loss of freedom, exclusions culturally sanctioned response, deviant behavior, conflicts between individual and society. Etic perspective looking at another culture from outside. Emic perspective looking at another culture from inside. Epidemiology study of the frequency and distributions of disorders. Comorbidity manifestation of more than one disorder. Prevalence number of active cases (old and new) Lifetime prevalence total number of who has had this at some point in their lives.