Chapter 1: Introduction and Historical Overview

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Chapter 1 Introduction and Historical Overview

• Defining Mental Disorders
• Comprehensive definitions are multidimensional
• DSM-5 includes a comprehensive definition

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Components of a Comprehensive Definition

• 4 General Components
• Distress
• The condition causes the individual distress
• Disability
• The condition impairs functioning in some
  important area(s) of life
• Dysfunction
• Behavioral, psychological, and/or biological
  systems are impaired
• Deviation
• Condition causes behavior that violates the norms
  of a society/culture

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Comparison to DSM-5 Definition

• DSM-5 Definition
• The disorder occurs within the individual.
• It involves clinically significant difficulties
  in thinking, feeling, or behaving.
• It involves dysfunction in processes that support
  mental functioning.
• It is not a culturally specific reaction to an
  event (e.g., death of a loved one).
• It is not primarily a result of social deviance
  or conflict with society.