Lecture 2 Conceptual issues

Question 1

Whats the medical / biological model

Answer 1

• Broca, Wernicke
• eventually, all mental illness= categorised– underlying biological causes (bacterial, viral infections, localised brain damage, toxins, heredity)
• lead to treatment, prevention

Question 2

Psychoanalytic model

Answer 2

• no clear dividing line between normal and abnormal

- include conditions other than psychotic states (neuroses: anxiety, depression, phobias)

Question 3

Whats the medical model

Answer 3

• Class and diagnosis of illnesses based on several assumptions
• Illness–> diff from health
  Diff illnesses are:
• distinguishable from each other
• occur independently from each other
• have causal agent
• respond to specific treatment

Question 4

Diagnoses

Answer 4

=based on known causation

Question 5

Syndrome

Answer 5

=cluster of symptoms

- only disease, once we know its cause

Question 6

DSMIII and beyond

Answer 6

• reflects medical model
• need to know cause
• based on observation, measurement

Question 7

3 D’s for mental disorder

Answer 7

• Distress= giving negative feelings to self, but can also be to others– antisocial behaviour– can lead to criminal behaviour
• Dysfunction= psychological, biological, or behavioural dysfunction in person
• Deviance= socially diff