Mental Disorder Case Study

Psychological Disorder: A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.
Consider the definition above, explain what is meant by clinically significant. Break the definition into smaller parts for your explanation.
Disturbance: Disturbed, or even dysfunctional behaviors of this disorder is maladaptive; meaning they often interfere with a normal day to day life. This clinical significance of thought and emotion is also used as a more neutral term than mental illness.
Cognition: Involves clinically significant distortion, or impairment in higher functions of the brain; i.e. delirium, dementia, amnestic syndrome.
Emotion Regulation: Often refers to the clinically significant
The problem often resides less in the child, but more in today’s abnormal environment; often forcing children to do what evolution has not prepared them to do; sitting for long hours in classroom chairs.

What key components need to be present to differentiate ADHD from normal high energy or rambunctiousness? Extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity can often derail social, academic, and vocational achievements; these symptoms can as well be treated with such medication and other therapies.
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How has the medical model influenced our treatment of people with mental disorders? Even today, the medical model is recognizable in the terminology of the mental health movement. This medical perspective has also gained such credibility from recent discoveries that genetically influenced abnormalities in both brain structure and biochemistry; playing an important role today in psychological factors, such as chronic or traumatic stress.
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Explain what clinicians seek to accomplish by classifying a disorder. How does the DSM-5 help clinicians with these diagnoses? In psychology, diagnostic classification often aims to not only describe a disorder, but also to predict
The DSM is often criticized negatively by critics for “casting too wide a net” because, they worry the DSM will extend the pathologizing of everyday life. For example, turning bereavement grief into depression, and boyish rambunctious into ADHD. Others respond both depression and hyperactivity; though needing careful definition, are genuine disorders..
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Discuss the research findings on the stigmatizing power of labels. The DSM has other critics who register a more fundamental complaint; these labels being at the best and worst value judgments masquerading science. Meaning, once we label a person, we have the power of viewing that person far differently. As well meaning, labels create preconceptions that guide our perceptions.
What role do Hollywood movies play in further stigmatizing mental disorders? In Hollywood movies, stereotypes often linger in the media as portrayals of psychological disorders. From