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Module 27 Standards SSPVB3 The student will identify abnormal behavior and treatment a Identify criteria that distinguish normal from disordered behavior include the criteria of distress deviance and dysfunction ID: 647819

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Introduction to Psychological Disorders

Module 27Slide2

Standards

*SSPVB3: The student will identify abnormal behavior and treatment.

a. Identify criteria that distinguish normal from disordered behavior; include the criteria of distress, deviance, and dysfunction.

b. Describe methods used to diagnose and assess abnormal behavior; include the current version of the

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

, the MMPI, and projective tests.

c. Compare anxiety disorders, mood disorders, personality disorders, and schizophrenia and describe appropriate treatments for these disorders.

d. Analyze the challenges associated with labeling psychological disorders and the impact of diagnosis on patients.

e. Compare the biomedical, psychoanalytical, cognitive, and behavioral approaches to the treatment of psychological disorders. Slide3

Essential Question

How has the labeling and diagnosis of psychological disorders changed over time?Slide4

Defining Disorder

What criteria do psychologists use to diagnose psychological disorders?

Maladaptive or destructive behavior

Unjustifiable without a rational basis

Disturbing; troubling to other people

Atypical; so different that they violate a normSlide5

Understanding Disorders

Throughout history, different cultures have viewed psychological disorders differently.

Usually viewed as demonic possession or punishment for sin.

Many patients were treated inhumanely as a result of their disorders.

Philippe Pinel – French physician (1745 – 1826) who worked to eliminate institutionalized brutality.Slide6

The Medical Model

The concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated and even cured.

Assumes that mental illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis of their symptoms.

Through therapy (medical or psychological) these illnesses can be cured.Slide7

The Bio-Psycho-Social Model

A contemporary perspective which assumes that biological, psychological and sociocultural factors all interact to produce psychological disordersSlide8

Classifying Disorders

In order to create a sense of order within the discipline, psychologists classifying disorders according to their symptoms in order to:

1. describe the disorder

2. predict the future course of the disorder

3. treat the disorder properly

4. provide a springboard for research into the causes of the disorder.Slide9

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

DSM-IV-TR – Most accepted and widely used classification system for psychological disorders.

Currently in its 4

th

edition.

Classifies disorders into 17 major categories.

Anorexia has been added as disorder; homosexuality has been dropped as disorderSlide10

Labeling Disorders

What are the drawbacks and advantages in labeling psychological disorders?

Questions to consider:

1. How does the labeling affect the individual?

2. How is the labeling viewed by society?

3. Is a psychological disorder the same as any other physical disorder?Slide11

Classes of Disorders

Anxiety Disorders – generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias

Mood Disorders – major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder

Dissociative Disorders – dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identify disorder

Schizophrenia Disorders – (types of schizophrenia) paranoid, catatonic, disorganized and undifferentiated