PS280 Lecture 1: Abnormal behaviour PS280
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Not a lot of stress psychopath obsessed composes disorder: dsm: a manual. Toward a definition of abnormal behaviour: suggestion: use the case of jody or a similar case to illustrate the definition of abnormal behaviour, psychological dysfunction: breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioural functioning, personal distress or impairment. Sexual addiction: all about pursue sexuality: difficulty performing appropriate and expected roles. Impairment is set in the context of a person"s background: atypical or not culturally expected, reaction is outside cultural norms. The diagnostic and statistical manual (dsm-5) contains the listing of criteria for psychological disorders: an important note about the definition of abnormal behaviour. No one definition, by itself, yields a fully satisfactory definition of abnormal behaviour, but together they offer a useful framework for beginning to define abnormality. Specially trained professionals include clinical and counselling psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric social workers, psychiatric nurses, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counsellors: canadian counselling and psychotherapy association website: http://www. ccacc. ca.
