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Module 48: introduction to psychological disorder

Psychological disorder

A disturbance in people’s thoughts, emotions, or behaviors that causes distress or suffering and impairs their daily lives

Medical model

The concept that diseases in this case psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases cured often through treatment in a hospital

Epigenetics

The study of the molecular mechanisms by which environments can influence genetic expression without a dna Change

DSM-5-TR

The manual of mental disorders used to classify psychological disorders

Susto

Conditions experienced in Latin America culture

Where an individual may experience severe ‘

Anxiety, restlessness ‘ and a fear of black magic

Autism disorder is fairly reliable

antisocial personality disorder is unreliable

The symptoms of alcohol use disorder begin to

Appear at a median age of 20

Comorbid

Having two Or more illnesses at the same time or, one after another

Philippe Pinel suggested mental disorder was A sickness of the mind

Poor is more likely to develop a mental -

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

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Module 48: introduction to psychological disorder

Psychological disorder

A disturbance in people’s thoughts, emotions, or behaviors that causes distress or suffering and impairs their daily lives

Medical model

The concept that diseases in this case psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases cured often through treatment in a hospital

Epigenetics

The study of the molecular mechanisms by which environments can influence genetic expression without a dna Change

DSM-5-TR

The manual of mental disorders used to classify psychological disorders

Susto

Conditions experienced in Latin America culture

Where an individual may experience severe ‘

Anxiety, restlessness ‘ and a fear of black magic

Autism disorder is fairly reliable

antisocial personality disorder is unreliable

The symptoms of alcohol use disorder begin to

Appear at a median age of 20

Comorbid

Having two Or more illnesses at the same time or, one after another

Philippe Pinel suggested mental disorder was A sickness of the mind

Poor is more likely to develop a mental -

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