Mental Health (Personality Disorders)

Question 1

Psychopathology- Abnormal Psychological

Answer 1

-Psychopathology (mental illness) often seen as failure of adaptation to environment (maladaptive behavior)
- failure analysis approach tries to understand mental illness by examining breakdown in functioning

Question 2

Maladaptive Behavior

Answer 2

-maladaptive behavior is part of mental illness
-(heavy drug users who arnt distressed by their behaviors)

Question 3

DSM-5-TR

Answer 3

-The DSM has grown in scope to become a major system of classification and diagnosis of mental disorders
-diagnosis criteria and decision rules for each condition

Question 4

Positives of Labels

Answer 4

-services
-identification
-benefits
-interventions
-communication

Question 5

Challenges of Labels

Answer 5

-blinders
-biases
-self-fulfilling
-collateral damage
-impacting rights to employment, education, insurance, mortgages