PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Canadian Mental Health Association, Philippe Pinel, Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Chapter 1: introduction: definitional and historical considerations, and. Canada"s mental health system: psychopathology is the field concerned with the nature and development of mental disorders. What is abnormal behaviour: abnormal behaviour are patterns of emotion, thought, and action deemed pathological for one or more of the following reasons: infrequent occurrence, violation of norms, person distress, disability or dysfunction, and unexpectedness. Unexpectedness: distress and disability are considered abnormal when they are unexpected responses to environmental stressors. E. g. an anxiety disorder is diagnosed when the anxiety is unexpected and out of proportion to the situation, as when a person who is well of worries constantly about his or her financial situation. The mental health professions: clinician is a health professional authorized to provide more services to people suffering from one or more pathologies, clinical psychologist is an individual who has earned a ph. d. degree in psychology or a.
