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Fundamental Aspects of Psychopathology
Meta-Components of Psychology
Culture SES
RaceEthnicity
Gender and Sex
Psychopathology
Definition of Mental Disorder• A clinically significant behavioral or
psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in the individual and that is associated with persistent distress, disability or with significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom.
Assumption of DSM
• DSM defines major disorders based on the phenotypic presentation of symptoms
Inherent Components of a Mental Disorder
• Dyscontrol• Critiques?
• Impairment• Critiques?
• Pathology
Taxometrics
• Mathematical Study of Classification
• Gold Standard?• Taxon• Compromise: Bootstrap
Taxometrics
Culture
• Culture is values, beliefs and practices belonging to a particular group. This construct begins to identify the context, heterogeneity of beliefs and persons within a group.
Multicultural Considerations• Ethnic Identity• Acculturation• Beliefs about illness• Manifestation of symptoms• Norms/values• Resiliency• Need for systemic involvment• Orientation to mental health services• Nature of reporting
Purpose of Diagnosis
• Understand cause/reason for behavior
• Correctly identify disorder• Select proper approach for
treatment• How does culture impact these
issues?
Misdiagnoses• Blacks and Hispanics more likely to be
misdiagnosed with a chronic disorder.• Blacks more likely to be misdiagnosed
with schizophrenia;• Potential for violence and
dangerousness overestimated for blacks inpatients and inmates;
• Minorities more likely to be overmedicated;
• Minorities receive fewer referrals for group/individual psychotherapy.
Gender (Addis)
• Network of social, historical and psychological processes that collectively form ideologies and norms regarding who and how men and women should be.
Hypotheses for Male Depression• Men experience depression differently
than women;• Masked Depression Framework• Masculine Depression Framework**• Gendered Responding Framework**• Increased adherence to masculine
gender norms increases risk for depression and externalizing disorders
Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence: Gender and
Psychopathology • Examining sex differences
provides a means to identify the complex etiologies for different forms of emotional and behavioral problems.
Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence: Gender and Psychopathology
• Sex differences can occur because boys and girls may:
a) experience different environmental risk factors,b) experience different levels of the same environmental risk factors have different biological
processesc) require different thresholds of biological or genetic risk for serious problems to developd) differentially experience interactions of environmental and biological influences
Take home message
• Whether culture or gender, consideration of within group differences yields more conceptually useful information than examining between group differences