Waubonsee Community College

Mental disorder, Online Classroom Ltd

eng

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11 & up

Mental disorder

709676496

Online Classroom Ltd

30

Understanding PsychologyFilms on Demand

What is abnormality? Using the case studies of two young women-one who has depression, one who has an anxiety disorder-as a springboard, this program presents three psychological perspectives on mental disorder. Section one considers it as a bodily disease, identifying underlying assumptions of the biomedical model and illustrating the treatments it offers. Section two looks at it as a disease of the mind, developing the view that the origins of some mental disorders may lie in people's experiences. And section three outlines the basis of the constructionist perspective and the idea that mental disorder is socially defined. The increasing medicalization of behavior is also addressed

Mental Illness: Physical Treatment (4:03) -- Mental Illness: Biological Treatment (3:35) -- Mental Illness: Biochemical Treatment (3:29) -- Mental Illness: Psychological Approach to Treatment (2:51) -- Psychotherapy: Cognitive Approach (4:38) -- Mental Disorders as Social Constructions (4:06) -- Changing Views on Behavior (2:49) -- Medicalization of Behavior: Life as a Disease? (3:10)

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