PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Dorothea Dix, Personality Disorder, Mood Disorder
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Psychopathology: concerned nature and development of abnormal behavior, thoughts remain objective. Difference what is appropriate to talk and productive to define it. Abnormal behavior: stats infrequency, violation of norms, personal distress, disability (disfunction), unexpectedness. Normal curve: majority of people in middle - few people at extreme. Person does not deviate from average in trait. Exception singing abilities not abnormal few infrequent behaviors diagnosed as abnormal. Personal distress behavior great distress in person some disorders don"t cause distress: psychopath. Disability or dysfunction disability: impairment in some important are of life. Mental health professions clinicians: various professions authorized provide psych services clinical psych: ph. d or psy. d. Canada: regulation psych profession = provinces regulate it. Agreement internal trade (ita) = agreement between provinces. Phh. d psych: laboratory, research design, stats, empirically study of human/animal be- haivor research/dissertation. Assessment: find = what wrong person; what cause problem; what steps taken to im- prove. Diagnosis: determine patient symptoms or problems indicates diagnosis.
