Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Dissociative Identity Disorder, American Psychological Association, Mania

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Elizabeth Kelly

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The medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease, it gradually become the conventional way of thinking of abnormal behavior in the 19th and. It brought improvements in the treatment of those who exhibited abnormal behavior o. Some critics are concerned because this model diagnoses of abnormal behavior pin potentially derogatory labels on people, which carries a social stigma. Diagnosis involves distinguishing one illness from another, etiology refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness, and a prognosis is a forecast about the probably course of an illness. Clinicians rely on a variety of criteria including: o. What constitutes as normal varies somewhat from one culture to another, but all cultures have such norms. When people ignore these standards and expectations, they may be labelled mentally ill. In many cases, people are judged to have a psychological disorder because their everyday adaptive behavior is impaired.