PSYC 2030U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Abnormal Psychology, Mental Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
Document Summary
Abnormal psychology: definitions, historical context and canadian perspective. Common ideas about mental illness: mental illness is due to emotional weakness false, bad parenting is a major cause of mental illness false. Parenting style can play a role, but not necessarily a major cause: sinful behaviour is responsible for much mental illness false, the mentally ill could recover if they really wanted to false. It"s not just something they can will themselves out of: the mentally ill are more violent than normal people false. More likely to harm themselves or be harmed by others, than to harm others: mental illnesses are generally curable false. There"s no cure per se, but can recover or assisted to help manage. Misperceptions: examples such as vince li (man who killed person on bus) are extremely rare, but media coverage impact how mental illness is viewed. Statistical infrequency one of ways we look to determine if something is abnormal: behaviour occurs rarely or infrequently.
