Psychological Disorder Flashcards
Being different from most other people in ones culture define what
A psychological disorder
Deviant distressful and dysfunctional pattern of thoughts,feelings,and actions
Psychological disorder
What is key to defining a disorder
Dysfunction
The concept that disease in this case psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed treated and in most case cured often through treatment in a hospital
Medical model
These people were sometimes caged in zoo like conditions
“Mad” people
Middle Ages thought psychological disorders were considered what
The Devils work
There may be a difficulty in the persons environment in the persons current interpretations of events or in persons bad habits and poor social skills
Biopsychosocial approach
The American psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders fourth edition
DSM-IV-TR
To be diagnosed with a specific disorders, people have to what?
Fit the symptoms
What is used to allow for a common language to be used between professionals
Diagnostic labels
Give the stages of schizophrenia
- delusional
- briefpsychotic- 1 month
- Schizophreniaform-1-6 months
- schizophrenia anything greater than 6 months