PSYC 3604 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Demonic Possession, Trephine, Trepanning

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Not interfering with social life or work/school. Behaviours, thoughts and feelings are 1 or more of the following: Behaviours, thoughts, and feelings are one or more of the following: Significantly interfering with social or occupational functioning. Highly dangerous to the individual or others. Continuum model of abnormality: model of abnormality that views mental disorders not as categorically different from normal experiences but as lying somewhere along a continuum from healthy, functional behaviours, thoughts, and feelings to unhealthy, dysfunctional behaviours, thoughts and feelings. Psychopathology: symptoms that cause mental, emotional, and/or physical pain. Common belief is that behaviours, thoughts or feelings can be viewed as pathological or abnormal if they are symptoms of a mental illness (implies a disease process should show up on a biological test) Mental disorders are collections of problems in thinking or cognition, in emotional responding or regulation, and in social behaviour.

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