PS101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Class Reunion, Cerebrospinal Fluid, Postpartum Depression
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The medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviour as a disease. Thomas szasc (1974, 1990) asserted that disease or illness can affect only the body; hence there can be no mental illness Minds can be sick" only in the sense that jokes are sick. He further argued that abnormal behaviour usually involves a deviation from social norms rather than an illness. Medical concepts such as diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis have proven valuable in the treatment and study of abnormality. Diagnosis involves distinguishing one illness from another. Etiology refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis is a forecast about the probable course of an illness. Deviance: people are often said to have a disorder because their behaviour deviates from what their society considers acceptable. Transvestic fetishism is a sexual disorder in which a man achieves sexual arousal by dressing in womens clothing.
