SOC363H1 Lecture 2: SOC363 – Week 2 Reading – The Twain Meet.docx
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Journal of health and social behavior: favored a dimensional interpretation of mental health variation. Current movement in psychology: disorder is not a category buy a continuum. Dsm-iv says disorder id not completely discrete entity with absolute boundaries. Fact: must consider the whole history of research on distress as the source of a problem. History reveals a string of unchallenged and misleading claims about the distinction between distress and disorder. Distress initially used as a screening instrument: eg. Wwii to reduce the likelihood of putting venerable soldiers into combat: deflects attention from focus on its content and what it measures, as a screening instrument it is measure something else. Dohrenwend: attemot to define distress independently of disorder. Mirowsky and ross: define in terms of subjectively uncomfortable states that incluse problems of mood and malaise (distress again defined on its own terms)
