PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Genetic Counseling, Supportive Housing, General Paresis Of The Insane
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Introduction: definitional and historical considerations, and canada"s mental health system. Psychopathology: the field concerned with the nature and development of mental disorders: concerned with the nature of abnormal behavior, thoughts, feelings, know less about this field and the people being studied do not always offer fast answers. Another challenge faced is the need to be objective. Concepts and labels used in psychopathology must be free of subjective feelings of appropriateness ordinarily attached to certain human phenomena. No single characteristic is adequate to define abnormal behavior. Abnormal behavior: patterns of emotion, thought, and action deemed pathological for one or more of. Abnormality is determined by the presence of many characteristics at a time the following reasons; infrequent occurrence, violation of norms, personal distress, disability or dysfunction, and unexpectedness. Infrequency of a certain behavior in the general population is a characteristic of abnormal behavior: ex. Alternating episodes of depression and mania (case study page 2)
