| Disadvantages of categorising mental health | ethnocentric - based on Americans model of abnormality
range of individual differences in mental health hard to catergorise |
| How do you categorise mental health | -DSM5
-ICD10 |
| Key research Rosenhan | -naturalistic / covert field
-patients and staff from 12 hospitals from 5 states of the USA
-IV= hospitial or uni dv=how the patients were treated
-8 sane patients went in as psuedo patients went in acted normal and recorded how they was treat in a journal
-one diagnosed with schizophrenia in remission
-normal bhv were recored as serious illnesses
-other paitients could tell the patients were normal |
| Second part of ROSENHAN | mentally ill patients were not allowed in so they were wrongly treated
3 months - 193 wrongly judged to be psuedopatients |
| The types of defining abnormality | stat infreq- abnormal away from the normal stat = anorexia
-deviation from mental health - deviating from factors like self esteem = depression
- deviation from social norms -behaviours dysfunctional in different cultures
-Failure to function adequately - maladaptive bhvs , irattional and personal distress. |
| Overview of the mental health | Ancient history - 4 humours . depression from excess bile . laxatives were treatment
13-15th- 4 humors ,demons and witches - burnt at stake was treatment.
16-17th- from supernatural /lunar events such as full moon . treatmnent withcraft and cunning men.
18-19th- may be due to influences on the mind treatments - doctor - patient relationship
20-21st- chemical imbalance , learnt bhv, . treatment drugs and assylums. |
| What is the DSM5 | The manual consists of three sections
22 chapters
arranged in order of disorders likely to be experienced |
| ICD10 | diagnose both physical and mental conditions |
| DSM vs ICD | both based on a western bias and often used together
DSM= holistic
ICD= reductionist |
| Advantages of catergorising mental health disorders | improves reliability of diagnosis between cliniciaans
enables a formal diagnosis so help and support obtained
they are regularly monitored and reviewed by new issues from psychiatrists |
| Disadvantages of categorising mental health | ethnocentric - based on Americans model of abnormality
range of individual differences in mental health hard to catergorise |
| Characteristics of an affective disorders | Depression - AFFECTS EMOTIONS OR MOODS
-sadness , fatigue and bad self esteej
have to be expressed for 2 weeks minimum |
| Charcteristics of Psychotic disorders | SCHITZOPHRENIA - LOOSING TOUCH WITH REALITY Positive symptoms - delusions , auditory and visual hallucinations
Negative symtpoms - lack of motivation |
