PSYCH 215 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Josef Breuer, Dorothea Dix, Abnormal Psychology
11 Feb 2016
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Distress: unpleasant and upsetting to the person. Can interfere in multiple areas social life, academia, work. Danger: risk of harm to self or others. Harm/danger do not equal violent conundrum: how to define abnormal psychology. Thomas szasz: basically asserts that abnormal psychology is a made up construct by society to classify that those who are different/do not fit the mold for society. Clinical treatment is surrounded by conflict and confusion lack of agreement about goals or aims lack of agreement about successful outcomes lack of agreement about failure. 30% of adults and 19% of teens/adolescents are mentally ill in the u. s. with influences on: time. Bias/prejudice treatment therapy: a procedure designed to change behavior. Sufferer who seeks relief from the healer. Healer = trained, socially accepted healer, expertise is accepted: history of abnormal psychology: Possession by demons treatment for severe abnormality trephination: drilling holes in skulls to let out demons.
