PSYC 1010 Lecture : PSYC 1010 (JUBIS)- PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Rebecca jubis taking a sharp rock and digging at someone skull till there was a hole to let all the spirits and demons escape. Asylums intended to give quiet retreats to anyone who was behaving abnormally; taking them out of society and into a safe environment. But were treated inhumanly in 1782, pinel said that these people have sick minds and must start treating these people more humanly: institutions were developed to receive psychological treatments that people deserved. Proposes that abnormal behaviour should be viewed as a disease and treated as one. Criteria for defining abnormal behaviour: statistical frequency- any behaviour that occurs infrequently is abnormal, deviation from social norms. Criticism: culturally dependent, social norms change with time (dsm: maladaptive behaviour is abnormal. Psychological disorders require deviant behaviour and distressful and dysfunctional behaviour or thoughts. Matching people"s symptoms and current functioning to pre-established categories of psychological disorders. Advantage: it increases reliability and allows for communication.