PSYC 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Psychiatric Association, World Health Organization, Positive Psychology

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 335
• Professor: Dean A Tripp

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Lecture 3: classifications and measures of strengths and. Karl menninger: challenged labeling of pathology, diagnosis focused on, power of hope, faith, love. Life processes vs states/conditions (cid:494)strength(cid:495) defined as: capacity for feeling, thinking, and behaving in a way that allows optimal functioning in the pursuit of valued outcomes. Psychologists tend to spend more time classifying illnesses rather than on strengths: human nature focuses more on the negatives than positives. Long way to go in figuring out how to measure strengths. International classifications of diseases (icd) by world health organisation: icd includes all physical and psychological illnesses (dsm only psychological, icd is used in europe. Diagnostic & statistica manual of mental disorders (dsm) by american. Psychiatric association (apa: north america uses dsm. 3 models in use by many: gallup themes of talent, values in action classification of strengths, search institute(cid:495)s 40 developmental assets. Talent can be operationalized, studied, and accentuated in work and academic.