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| most psychological disorders result from breakdowns or failures of physiological disorders |
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| "mental illnesses", or odd behaviors, such as hearing voices or talking to oneself were attributed to evil spirits |
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| the view that mental illness was caused by physical disorder requiring medical treatment |
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| institutions for the mentally ill and unstable in the 15th century |
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| approach to mental illness calling for dignity, kindness, and respect |
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| 1960's and 70's governmental policy that closed mental health facilities and released the patients into society |
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| binge and purge eating habits |
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| excess weight loss caused by lack of proper nutrition |
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| Misconception: Psychiatric diagnosis is nothing more than pidgeonholing/categorizing people |
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| Fact: Examining only the mental disorder narrows facts such as cultural upbringing, race/ethnicity, and childhood in general. |
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| Misconception: Psychiatric Diagnois is unreliable |
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| Fact: since reliability refers to measurement, there is no real way to measure a psychiatric diagnosis because it has been reached by one opinion, not a general consensus |
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| Misconception: Psychiatric Diagnoses are invalid |
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| Some argue that mental diagnoses are nothing more than descriptive of factors we dont like. But it does teach us [1-5 on page 631]. |
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| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders (DSM) |
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| manual that lists criteria for mental disorders |
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| Misconception: Psychiatric diagnoses stigmatize people |
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| LABELING THEORISTS- think that psychiatric diagnoses exert powerful negative effects on people's perceptions and behaviors |
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| association of two or more diagnoses |
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| classifies mental disorder by the type of disorder, not the degree of severity |
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| classification of disorders by degree of severity, not type of disorder. |
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| we shouldnt hold people who weren't of sound mind guilty of a crime |
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| incompetence to stand trial |
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| assessment of a defendants mental capacity to stand trial in a court of law. |
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| conditions marked by symptoms suggesting underlying medical illness, but are actually of psychpological origin |
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| procedure of placing some mentally ill people in a psychiatric hospital or other facility based on their potential danger to themselves or others, or their inability to care for themselves |
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