CLP 4143- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Abnormal psychology: concerned w/ understanding the nature, causes, and treatment of mental disorders. The criteria that mist be met before someone receives a particular diagnosis. Family aggregation: whether a disorder runs in families. Age on onset of symptoms and predisposing factors. There is no universal agreement about what is meant by abnormally or disorder. We cannot assume that someone diagnosed w/ a mental disorder must be dangerous. Research suggests that in people w/ mental illness, dangerousness is more the exception than the rule. Decisions about abnormal behavior always involve social judgments and are based on the values and expectations of society at large; culture plays a role in determining what is and isn"t abnormal. The dsm-5 and the de nition of mental disorder. American psychiatric association, diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-5): the accepted standard for de ning various types of mental disorders in the us.
