PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phlegm, Quiet Life, Psychopathology
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Psyc 3140: lecture 1: four general criteria that psychologists use to identify abnormal behavior: Maladaptive behavior: abnormal psychology: the field devoted to the causes of mental dysfunction (mental illness, psychopathology, maladjustment, emotional disturbance) Can have features of deviance (depending on culture, distress, and possible injury to self or others) Treatment or therapy is a procedure designed to change abnormal behavior into normal behavior. Most clinicians agree that large numbers of people need therapy of one kind or another. Jerome frank: believed there were three necessary components to therapy a sufferer, a healer, and a series of contacts between the two: past views of abnormal psychology. In any year, around 30% of adults and 19% of children and adolescents in the us display serious psychological disturbances and are in need of clinical treatment. In addition, most people have difficulty coping at various times.
