PSY 504 Lecture Notes - Fantasy Prone Personality, Mood Disorder, Normal School
30 Apr 2012
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Proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviour as a disease. This point of view is what many medical terms are based for abnormal behaviour are based on. Before this model, most concepts of abnormal behaviour were based on superstition. People who behaved differently were thought to be possessed by demons, or thought to be victims of god"s punishment. This model brought improvements for the treatment of victims, and allowed them to be viewed with sympathy rather than hatred. Medical concepts such as diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis are valuable in the treatment and study of abnormality. Diagnosis distinguishing one illness from another. Etiology the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis a forecast about the probable course of an illness. Criteria of abnormal behaviour: deviance: their behaviour deviates from what the society considers as acceptable behaviour. What is considered normal varies from one culture and society to another, but all cultures have norms.
