PSYC 3604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Disability-Adjusted Life Year, Mental Disorder, Mood Disorder
20 Apr 2017
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Psych students have more fear than other fields. However we worry more about our friends and family the more we learn, less concerned we become. At some point in our life, everyone will personally experience a mental disorder or know someone very close to them who does. Allows comparison of the impact disease on the person, across many different disease conditions (car accident, cancer, mood disorder) Dalys account for lost years if healthy life regardless if weather the years were lost due to premature death or disability. Defining abnormal behaviour: (cid:498)statistical rarity(cid:499) negative (cid:498)norm violation(cid:499) If a persons behaviour violates the social norm it may be deemed abnormal. This is problematic because norms vary across culture and across time. )n the early (cid:883)9(cid:882)(cid:882)"s, women who didn"t depend financially on men and who were sexually active were deems (cid:498)psychopathic(cid:499) Maybe its classified as an abnormal behaviour because it"s rare, and doesn"t. (owever this method doesn"t differentiate between rare positive or rare.
