PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Major Depressive Episode
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Lesson 14: abnormal behavior: myths, realities, and controversies, the medical model applied to abnormal behaviour, the medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease. When people violate these standards and expectations, they may be labeled mentally ill. for example, transvestic fetishism is a sexual disorder in which a man achieves sexual arousal by dressing in women s clothing: maladaptive behavior. Alcohol and drug use is not unusual or deviant. However, when the use of cocaine, for instance, begins to interfere with a person s social or occupational functioning, a substance use disorder exists: personal distress. Depressed people, for instance, may or may not exhibit deviant or maladaptive behavior. Such people are usually labeled as having a disorder when they describe their subjective pain and suffering to friends, relatives, and mental health professionals: diagnoses of psychological disorders involve value judgments about what represents normal or abnormal behavior.
