The Abnormal Behavior DSM-5 Definition of Psychological Disorder
Psychological Disorder
Psychopathology
FIVE D’s OF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
Scientist-Practitioner
Dysfunctionality
▪ Consumer of Science
→
▪ Evaluator of Science
→
→
▪ Creator of Science
→
→
→ Harmful dysfunction
✓
✓
✓
Distress
CLINICAL DESCRIPTION
→ Presenting problem (presents)
→
Clinical description
Dangerousness
→
→
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Deviancy Components of Clinical Description
Prevalence
→
→ Incidence
→
Sex Ratio
→ Abnormality
Onset
▪ Acute
▪ Insidious
, → → →
→ Developmental Psychopathology
→
→ Life-Span Developmental Psychopathology
Genetic Contributions to
Course Psychopathology
▪ Chronic Genes
▪ Episodic
→ → → →
▪ Time-limited →
→
Prognosis
THE NATURE OF GENES
CAUSATION, TREATMENT, AND ETIOLOGY OUTCOMES
→
Etiology
→
Treatment → →
→ →
→
→ Eclectic Approach → Dominant gene
→ Scientific Method of Treatment →
→ Recessive gene
→ Integrative Approach
− → Gene dominance
−
→
One-Dimensional vs.
→
Multidimensional Models
→
Systematic Perspective
→
→ →
→
Psychological Disorder
Psychopathology
FIVE D’s OF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
Scientist-Practitioner
Dysfunctionality
▪ Consumer of Science
→
▪ Evaluator of Science
→
→
▪ Creator of Science
→
→
→ Harmful dysfunction
✓
✓
✓
Distress
CLINICAL DESCRIPTION
→ Presenting problem (presents)
→
Clinical description
Dangerousness
→
→
→
Deviancy Components of Clinical Description
Prevalence
→
→ Incidence
→
Sex Ratio
→ Abnormality
Onset
▪ Acute
▪ Insidious
, → → →
→ Developmental Psychopathology
→
→ Life-Span Developmental Psychopathology
Genetic Contributions to
Course Psychopathology
▪ Chronic Genes
▪ Episodic
→ → → →
▪ Time-limited →
→
Prognosis
THE NATURE OF GENES
CAUSATION, TREATMENT, AND ETIOLOGY OUTCOMES
→
Etiology
→
Treatment → →
→ →
→
→ Eclectic Approach → Dominant gene
→ Scientific Method of Treatment →
→ Recessive gene
→ Integrative Approach
− → Gene dominance
−
→
One-Dimensional vs.
→
Multidimensional Models
→
Systematic Perspective
→
→ →
→
