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Psychopathology

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Psychopathology- the scientific study of mental disorders Criteria for Mental Disorders Maladaptive Behavior ? behavior that causes harm by making it difficult to fulfill the normal functions of everyday life. Personal Distress ? a person?s individual perception of his or her own emotional distress. Atypical Behavior ? behavior that deviates from what is considered socially or culturally normal. Violation of Cultural Norms ? behavior that so deviates from what is culturally accepted that it is considered unacceptable and intolerable. Early Theories Abnormal behavior was evil spirits trying to get out. Trephining was often used. Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: the big book of disorders. DSM will classify disorders and describe the symptoms.

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Bipolar Disorder Because there is no culture, no blood or urine test, no EKG or biopsy that specifically can diagnose bipolar disorder, you might wonder how the doctors arrived at that diagnosis. Like many psychiatric disorders, bipolar disorder can be difficult to diagnose. For many years, doctors have tried to clarify the guidelines they use to diagnose psychiatric disorders. However the experience of a given mental illness varies from one person to the next and this variation is one of the reasons mental illness can be so difficult to diagnose.

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Study Guide for DSM-IV Disorders By Karen Smith 2 | P a g e Table of Contents Clinical and Personality Disorders Outline .............................................................................................................................................. 2 Other Conditions That Be a Focus on Clinical Attention................................................................................................................. 11 Axis I Disorders ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 12

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I) Chapter 16 Rosenhan Study David Rosenhan and seven others went to a mental hospital admissions offices, complaining of ?hearing voices? ( answered answers truthfully ( they were diagnosed as mentally ill (misdiagnosed though) Anxiety Disorders Anxiety Disorders ? psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety Generalized Anxiety Disorder ? an anxiety disorder in which a person in continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal Panic Disorder ? an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations

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Psychological Disorders Medical Model Concept that diseases have physical causes Can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured Assumes that these "mental" illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis of their symptoms and cured through therapy in a psychiatric hospital Bio-psycho-social Perspective- assumes that biological, sociocultural, and psychological factors combine and interact to produce psychological disorders Etiology DSM-IV American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders A widely used system for classifying psychological disorders Neurotic disorder Usually distressing but that allows one to think rationally and function socially Freud saw the neurotic disorders as ways of dealing with anxiety Psychotic disorder
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