PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Santa Barbara City College, Medical Model, Dsm-5
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Distinguishing normal from abnormal behaviour: must examine content and context. A continuum of emotions and behaviour: length of time; intensity of emotion; impact. To themselves and/or others: distress, length and intensity, impairment, day to day functioning, risk of injury or harm. Need for a common shorthand: for research, for practice. Understanding the cause of symptoms: e. g. Focus on a description of patterns and symptoms: behaviours, cognitions, emotions. . 50 usd to psychiatric/psychological community, insurance companies, legal. Good descriptions help with reliability: fairly good interrater reliability. Judging sanity in an insane place: david rosenhan. Thomas szasz (1960: study: on being sane in insane places, conclusion: validity of diagnosis, stigma associated with diagnosis. Mental illness is not a thing" or physical object and hence only exists in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist. It goes back to defining abnormal behaviour. Is the behaviour unconventional, irrational or rare. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm)
