The definition of a mental disorder is important for investigation.
The following list is of importance for the definition of a mental disorder:-
• Personal harm and suffering
• Limitations or disabilities in what a person can perform
• Abnormality (social, individual)
• Danger for others or the individual him/herself.
What you find is that most people who have a mental disorder has had one or more occurring at the same time.
Mood Disorder is a group of Diagnoses in the DSM classification system where a disturbance in the person’s mood is hypothesized to be the main underlying feature. The classification is known as mood (affective) disorders in the ICD.
Personality Disorder are conditions in which an individual differs from others in terms
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• This means it can box people into one of the available categories, sometimes inappropriately and it doesn’t accommodate the unique nature of the human condition.
• The system does not account for the people who have ‘atypical’ symptom’s
• The system looks at a person as a one-dimensional source of data rather than looking at the person holistically
1.1 - 3. Explain two alternative frameworks for understanding mental distress.
The behavioural model understands mental dysfunction in terms theory emerging from experimental psychology Symptoms, as understood by the behavioural model, are a patient’s behaviour. This behaviour has come about by a process of learning, or conditioning. Most learning is useful as it helps us to adapt to our environment, for example by learning new skills. However some learning is maladaptive and behaviour therapy aims to reverse this learning (counter conditioning). This model best applies to phobias.
Biopsychosocial model (BPS) This model is made up of three parts.
Biological, the functioning of an individual’s body, the individual’s biological history- Dna, bloodline, genetic, The chemical balance and processes of an individual’s