Psychology Unit 5, Explaining and Classifying Disorders

approaches

have to have disfunction, distress, and deviation from social norms to be diagnosed

Positives if Diagnosis

can be treated for disorder, the individual gets clarity and conformation

negatives of the diagnosis

discrimination, sigma behind having disorder, not who someone is as a person

What is Used to Diagnose

• DSM-5-TR, a book with different disorders, must have 9 or more to have something

• International Classification of Disease is more specific

Eclectic approach

using multiple forms of psychotherapy that adapts and helps the paitent

Behavioral perspectives

focusing on behavior, conditioning to modify the unwanted behavior

Psychodynamic Perspectives

unconscious motive, what triggers feelings/emotions

Humanistic

no diagnosis, support to reach full potential, self-actualization tendency, must have active listening

Cognitive perspective

thinking, remembering, what goes on in their heads, control, thinking patterns

evolutionary perspective

adaptive value, why is risk taking extreme, phobia=irrational, phobia —> fear —> stress

social cultural perspective

abnormal social and cultural relationships and dynamics, culture, media, family

Biological perspectives

history mental health, addiction, tests on brain history

Interaction models

The biopsychosocial approach

-Biology: physical health, genetic vulnerabilities

-Social: peers, stress, turama, memory

-Sociological: context, norms, self-esteem

Diathesis-Stress Model

mental and physical disorders arise from a combination of an individual's genetic or biological predisposition (diathesis) and stressful life experiences

-Diathesis=genentics

-Stress=environment