CLP-3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psy, Telehealth, Managed Care
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Lecture 4: diagnosis and classification of psychological problems. There is also an intuitive appeal because we can use our judgement as to what is and isn"t abnormal: cons: cutoff points are arbitrary (i. e. iq one person having an iq of 69 and another person of 70. Young children have a hard time reporting what they are feeling. You can also have distress, but no impairment. The video shows her falling under definition 1 and 2. She lost her job and vehicle and feels terrible about using the drug. There is no discrete boundary between normal and abnormal behavior. Just because one shows abnormal behavior does not mean the person is mentally ill. Mental illness is a cluster of abnormal behaviors that is associated with distress, disability, or increased risk of problems. Very rarely does mental illness have just one abnormal behavior: we diagnose for . Determine treatment: what treatment works for each disorder.
