PSYCH 3B03 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Psychopathology, Syndrome, Protective Factor
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What is abnormal: the dsm gives guidelines to determine the extremes of these behaviors, you look at the factors to identify the standout behaviors, these subtle things that you might notice are helped by the dsm. It also help identify abnormal behavior when it is subtle: you have to look at the context, how old, where are there, when we talk about abnormal behavior there are many things to look at. In the dsm when you look at a disorder it says something that is clinically significant: there are specific sign or patterns you might see, they have to caused distress or impairment. Increased death pain disability or loss of freedom. Behaviors that are developmentally appropriate: we use developmental norms to identify abnormal development, you deviate from the norm when you are outside the average, there is a sequence for development.
