Module 48: introduction to psychological disorder

Psychological disorder

A disturbance in people’s thoughts, emotions, or behaviors causing distress and impairing daily lives.

Medical model

Concept treating psychological disorders as diseases with physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and often cured.

Epigenetics

Study of how environments can influence genetic expression without changing DNA.

DSM-5-TR

Manual used to classify psychological disorders.

Susto

Condition in Latin American culture with severe anxiety, restlessness, and fear of black magic.

Comorbid

Having two or more illnesses simultaneously or successively.

Philippe Pinel

Proposed mental disorder as a sickness of the mind.

Autism disorder

Fairly reliable diagnosis.

Antisocial personality disorder

Unreliable diagnosis.

Alcohol use disorder

Symptoms typically appear around the age of 20.

Suicide

Guns are used in 50% of completed suicides in the U.S.

Poverty

Linked to a higher likelihood of developing a mental disorder.