3 clusters

2 groups of psychological problems of elderly people

A branch of psychology concerned with intersections between psychological practice and research and the judicial system

Sometimes a clinician can misattribute a client’s extreme emotions to stereotypic femininity, rather than a disorder

Declining health, death of friends and spouses, and social isolation can cause these disorders

A person is sent to a treatment facility and is judged as mentally unstable

Alternative theories to categorize or diagnose personality disorders

Agitation, depression, anxiety, personality changes, and forgetfulness are symptoms

More than 80% of defendants who are acquitted of a crime by reason of insanity qualify for a diagnosis of ...

This PD is more severe than others in its cluster and is differentiated by fears of others that drive the need for social isolation

An anatomical way to confirm a patient has Alzheimer’s Disease

“Insanity” is used by legislators, not clinicians; the U.S. judicial system adopted this rule, or test, to better clarify but was later changed