PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Psychoactive Drug, Personality Disorder, Dialectical Behavior Therapy

• School: Emory University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 330
• Professor: Jessica Barber

Document Summary

Those who are more mindful tend to have better health outcomes. Inherent subjectivity: something not normal, against society"s expectations/ norms, statistical rarity/ infrequency, statistical definition: whatever is rare, infrequent, social definition: whatever society doesn"t tolerate, both definitions tied to context. Individualistic vs collective different social norms in different cultures and societies: personal, subjective experience matters, both statistical and social definitions of abnormality suffer from changing times and changing social or cultural norms. In order for something to count as a disorder: significant impairments in functioning. Culture, age, gender: why should these things be taken into account before diagnosing a pd, context. There are certain behavior and experiences that depending on the context might be appropriate or not. Is this an individual oddity or something about: cultural variation, ex. Grief- lots of differences in the way grief is experienced. Identity searching: erikson would expect shifting, especially in adolescence.