PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Master Of Social Work, Abnormal Psychology, Mental Disorder

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

Psya02 lecture 19 classification and diagnoses of mental illness. Definition of abnormal used in dsm-iv-tr: describes behavioral, emotional, or cognitive dysfunctions that are unexpected in their cultural context and associated with personal distress or substantial impairment in functioning. The scientific study of abnormal behavior, with the objective to: describe, explain, predict, control. Myths of abnormal behavior: easily recognized as deviant, disorder due to inheritance, incurable, weak willed, never contribute to society, always dangerous. The characters in the movie may show a typical stereotypical behaviors. Return to the supernatural: mass madness. A lot of them were executed instead of being treated. In it"s most direct form, abnormal just means anything that deviates from the norm like me! Thus, abnormal psychology is associated with: an inability to hold a job, marital or family dysfunction, problematic interactions with others. Multicultural perspectives: cultural universality, cultural relativism.