Psychopathology Chapter One Textbook Notes
Every day of our lives we try to understand other people.
The study of of psychopathology is the field concerned with the nature and development
of abnormal behaviour, thoughts and feelings, we do well understand
Chapter One Lecture Notes Psychopathology
There is a lot of different parts to these disorders, the goal is to understand these
abnormalities.
We will see how we try to assess it, diagnose it .etc
If we would try to define it it is not that easy to define
CAUSAL FACTORS &
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Causes and risk factors
Etiology
Necessary cause
Sufficient cause
Contributory cause
Causes and risk factors
Proximal vs distal risk factors
Reinforcing risk factors
Causal patterns and feedback
What is a Paradig
Chapter Two Textbook Notes
Current Paradigms and Integrative approaches
It is important to recognize that various clinical syndromes are disorders of the
phenotype and not of the genotype. Thus, it is not correct to say to speak of the direct
inheritance
Anxiety Disorders
Chapter in textbook also shows disorders that used to be anxiety disorders
Fear and Anxiety
Fear: when you are experiencing fear your body reacts to that
Activated quickly and to specific threats
Activation of fight-or-flight response
Psychopathology
Field concerned with the nature and
development of abnormal:
behaviour
thoughts
feelings
What is abnormal behaviour?
Abnormality usually determined by the
presence of several characteristics at one
time such as:
statistical infrequen
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Nicole Beaulieu
Developmental psychopathology
Causes of Child Mutilation
Due Date: December 6th 2012
Outline
Intro:
-Define Self-harm
- Give facts
-Give examples from articles
Body: Cause of self-harm
Functions of self-harm
Theoretica
