PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Circulatory Collapse, Selective Mutism
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Abnormal behaviours medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviour as a disease. Involves 3 factors: diagnosis involves distinguishing one illness from another, etiology refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness, a prognosis is a forecast about the probable course of an illness. Abnormal behaviours classified as mental illness, psychological disorder, and psychopathology (pathology refers to manifestations of disease). Thomas szasz (1974, 1990): abnormal behaviour usually involves a deviation from social norms rather than an illness, (cid:373)edi(cid:272)al (cid:373)odel"s disease a(cid:374)alog(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:396)ts (cid:373)o(cid:396)al a(cid:374)d so(cid:272)ial (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)s a(cid:271)out (cid:449)hat is acceptable behaviour into medical questions. 1 or 2 criteria might apply but it only takes one to diagnose a person with psychological diso(cid:396)de(cid:396) . People are judged to have psychological disorders only when their behaviour becomes extremely deviant, maladaptive, or distressing. David rosenhan (1973) had (cid:862)pseudo patie(cid:374)ts(cid:863) (cid:449)ho a(cid:396)e health(cid:455) go to hospital (cid:272)o(cid:373)plai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g hea(cid:396)i(cid:374)g voiced.