Intro to mental disorders (changed 5/3)
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Status: v103
Time: 2025-03-14
Tags: lecturenotes
Links: Mental Illness & Disorders
Tasks:
Content:
Objectives:
Name the two major classificaiton systems used in psychiatric diagnoses
list the advantages and disadvantages of the DSM
Describe the development of a mental disorder using the diathesis-stress model
Take home:
Things to note:
Rambles:
we need psychological knowledge because there can always be an undiagnosed mental disorder in a person
mental health means:
wellbeing
resilience
meaning
psychological disorder can be defined as causing:
psychological dysfunction
distress or impairment
atypical response
Debate: mental illness is deviance from normal and then therefore what is normal
Question: is this a normal emotional response/ thought or is this abnormal
critic says the DSM overpathologises everyday life
mental health is a spectrum of positive mental health and mental illness
OBJECTIVE
DSM-5 TR and ICD11
advantages
standardises billing diagnoses and treatment
guides research and treatment
disadvantages
oversimplifies human behaviour
increases risk of misdiagnosis or overdiagnoses
provides labels which could be stigmatizing
diagnostic classification systems are important for providing objectivity
Diathesis-stress
one dimensional model vs
multidimensional model
Diathesis-stress model
genetic vulnerability and environment work together to psuh someone over the line so to speak