PS101 Chapter Final: Chapter 14 and 15 Detailed notes of chapter 14 and 15 for final
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Stigma: do not understand that people with mental illness have the same characteristics as normal people just overdramatic. Etiology: apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis: forecast about the probable course of an illness. Public health officials don"t feel mental health illness is a public health issue, don"t feel that they kill. Statistical approval: only can focus on one trait at a time. Subjective approach: come and confess they are ill, person reaction to illness varies, no accurate. Social nonconformity: criminally (non-conformist), cultural relatively (normal in one society, not in other), undesirable social standards (something wrong in society), Criteria to determine abnormality: intelligibility, consistency, control. Criteria for diagnoses: deviance: their behaviour deviates from what their society considers acceptable, maladaptive behaviour: everyday adaptive behaviour is impaired, personal distress: individual"s repot of great personal distress. Causative factors: bio: genetic, hypoglycemic, calcium deficiency, vitamin b deficiency, anoxia, sleep deprivation, brain damage, social: social economic background, poverty, ageing, unemployment, gender.
