PSYC 3140 Chapter : Abnormal Psych Ch 1
10 Jan 2012
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Mental hygiene movement: started by clifford beer"s in order to have better treatment of the insane. Hincks and clark founded the canadian national committee for mental hygiene, which increased mental health care in respect to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illness. Study of abnormal psychology: study of people that suffer mental, emotional and physical pain, resulting in a psychological or mental disorder (known as psychopathology) 7% of people, 20 or older, were mentally diagnosed in 2004 and accounts 50% of physical billings and results in more use of hospital beds than cancer. Abnormalities may appear different to different people, since the context that a behavior appears in may consider it abnormal or not. Different theorists have defined being abnormal in many ways; perhaps a deviation from society; violating a cultures gender roles or the unusualness of the behavior, discomfort of the person, presence of a mental illness, and maladaptive behaviors.
