PSYC 357 Chapter : ch 11 mental health issues
12 Jan 2012
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Category - include range of behaviours and experiences that fall outside social norms, create adaptional difficulty in daily basis, put person/others at risk of harm (ex. Criteria to judge behaviour as abnormal include feeling personal or subjective distress, being impaired in daily life, causing risk to self/others, engage in behaviour that"s socially/culturally unacceptable. Collections of symptoms that together form a recognizable pattern of disturbance comparable to an illness in medical terms. Severe form of psychopathology involving range of unusual symptoms affecting thought, language, motivation, expression of emotion. May suffer disturbances in speech + motor behaviour. Several subtypes but all share common feature = severe disturbance in ability to remain in touch with reality. Old who suffered for many years = develop wide range coping skills (positive) First systematic definitions = premature dementia (dementia praecox) emil. Kraepelin for long time = thought of as permanently disabling condition, but now know long-term outcome of disorder = highly variable.
