PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Body Odor, Sympathetic Nervous System, Intercultural Competence
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There are many models to define abnormal behavior. Consensus among professionals is that what makes behaviors abnormal are if these: a) cause ppl to suffer distress, b) hinder daily functioning. Cultural relativism holds that culture must be used to determine normality of behaviors: understanding of culture to determine what is/isn"t normal. Field of psychiatry is mainly developed within western culture. These provide bases for categories of diagnosis (ex: diagnostic manual of mental. Disorders/dsm: when psychiatry defined by the west is applied to other cultures, there"s tendency of evaluating the psychopathologies of those cultures in terms of how well they fit with the categories developed in west. When applied to other cultures, tendency to try to fit them in these categories. Sometimes, these categories may reflect true universal categories of mental illnesses. Eating disorders common among n. american college populations, especially among women. Diagnosis: binge eat and purge, constant dissatisfaction with body shape and weight stop from gaining weight from binge.
