[PSYC 3406] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (185 pages long)

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If psychology is the study of behavior & mental processes, then abnormal psychology would be the study of abnormal behavior and mental processes: what do we mean by abnormal ? how do we decide what behavior is. These four signs are not indicative of a mental illness. Dsm-5 (diagnostic & statistical manual of mental disorders: contains illnesses and symptoms, many limitations. Date: 1/11/16: syndrome or pattern present in an individual, psychologically or biologically caused, consequence is signi cant distress/dysfunction, statistically different from the normal response to stress, not due to social deviance or con icts with society. What causes mental illness: many different theoretical models. Treatment: therapy: any process or procedure that alleviates symptoms. There have been many ideas throughout history about what causes abnormal behavior: in turn, there have been many different ideas about the treatment of mental illness, theories on causation lead to different theories of treatment.

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