PSY 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Seasonal Affective Disorder, Intellectual Disability, Dysthymia
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Clinical psychology: filed that specializes in assessing, diagnosing, and treating psychological conditions, ex. mental disorders. Abnormal psychology: the scientific study of psychological disorders. How do we know what is abnormal: many different ways to define abnormality, several criteria (4d"s, deviation from norms, statistical rarity and societal disapproval, distress, behaviours must cause distress or unhappiness, ex. feeling upset, negative feelings, dysfunction. Impairment in daily functioning: ex. social isolation, problems at work, danger, becoming dangerous to oneself or others, ex. overdosing on pills. Is a(cid:271)(cid:374)or(cid:373)ality just stuff we do(cid:374)"t like? (so(cid:272)io-culture critique: thomas szasz" critique, these ideas fall under sociocultural model, society views "all disapproved conditions as mental disorders" Laura brown (1992: we (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e that ill(cid:374)ess is f(cid:396)o(cid:373) "(cid:449)ithi(cid:374)" the pe(cid:396)so(cid:374); (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:395)uestio(cid:374) ou(cid:396) so(cid:272)ietal values. Emotional/subjective distress: does behaviour cause personal distress or emotional upset, sometimes we experie(cid:374)(cid:272)e dist(cid:396)ess (cid:271)ut it does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ea(cid:374) (cid:449)e a(cid:396)e a(cid:271)(cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)al. It is a legal term in the us: not a psychological term.
