3/10-11 Mod 65--Strive for 5

Strive for 5 questions
65-1
1. What is clinically significant about : disturbance. cognition. emotion regulation. behavior.
2. What is required for something to be diagnosed as a disorder?
3. How has our understanding of psychological disorders changed over time?
65-2
1. List 3 arguments or research findings that support the existence of ADHD as a legitimate diagnosis.
2. List 3 arguments skeptics use to refute the legitimacy of an ADHD diagnosis.
3. What key component needs to be present to differentiate ADHD from normal high energy?
65-3
1. Define the medical model
2. Define the biopsychosocial model.
65-4
1. How does DSM-5 help clinicians with diagnoses of disorders?
2. List 3 diagnostic changes with the new DSM.
3. How might you about these changes if your child was formerly diagnosed with Asperger's?
4. Why is the DSM often criticized by "casting too wide a net"?
5. Discuss why proper diagnoses is so important to mental health.
65-5
1. What does David Rosenhan mean by saying a label has "a life and an influence of its own".
2. Discuss the research findings on the stigmatizing power of labels.
3. What role do Hollywood movies play in further stigmatizing mental disorders?
4. In what ways can labels be beneficial?
5. Discuss the uses and misuses of the insanity plea.
65-6
1. Which country has the greatest prevalence of disorders and which has the most reported disorders?
2. How does research on collectivist and individualist apply to this information?
3. Explain the poverty-pathology link that is similar to the chicken-egg question.
4. Use table 65.2 to select 2 risk factors and 2 protective factors for mental disorders and discuss how these can accelerate or protect against the development of mental illness.