PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: American Psychiatric Association, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Cultural Relativism
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Clifford beers began a movement for the reform of mental health treatment, titled the mental hygiene. Movement after surviving harsh treatment in a psychiatric hospital and recovering from depression, and paranoia. Clarence hincks founded the canadian national committee for mental hygiene with dr. c. k. clarke in. 1918, which revolutionized mental health care with respect to diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness. Abnormal psychology is the study of people who suffer mental, emotional, and often physical pain as a result of some form of psychological or mental disorder often referred to as psychopathology. Mental illness in canada accounts for more than 50% of physician billings and results in more hospital bed-days than cancer. Context or circumstances surrounding a behaviour influence whether a behaviour is viewed as abnormal. According to some theorists deviation from cultural or societal norms is the only criterion for labelling a behaviour as abnormal.
