Abnormal Psychology essay
DSM-IV-TR
Abnormal Psychology
Abnormality Maladaptive dysfunctional – non productive
Normal Adaptive able to produce positive outcomes
Ability to change behavior to meet demands of environment or situation, Able to protect, Learning what works and what doesn’t, taking responsibility
Statistics Population, Social norms, cultural
Irrational behavior – unpredictable
Cohort – groups experiencing things in the same time frame
Psychological – covers behaviors (suicide, compulsions, emotions, fear depression anger) and cognitions (hallucinations, suicidal thoughts)
Psychological Disorders
Behavioral emotional or cognitive dysfunctions that are unexpected in their cultural context (includes time) and associated with personal distress or substantial impairment in functioning.
Abnormality
Psychiatrist MD, Psychology PSYD EDD PHD, Psychiatric social workers
You need to know your limits as a doctor
Historical Concepts
Deviant behavior and unexplained phenomenon = evil
Certain behaviors are directly related to imbalances in brain chemicals, may be related to your environment.
Trephination the drilling of the holes. Refers to the archaeological findings that skulls had holes in them and that they were drilled, why? thought they were letting the bad out and good in
People that seemed possessed, if something happened to someone else it was your fault
Treatment for possession would consist of latest rituals, exorcisms etc., try to confine the person, beat them, chain them, all to make the bad spirits want to leave.
A Priori you take it at its value, there is no proof
Empirical proven
1500 Swiss Physician – Paracelsus
There was an association that the movement of the moon and the stars changed the psychological functioning - Lunatic
Believed that the possession concept should be rejected
Menses – lunar cycle, menstrual cycle 28 days, PMS
Stress conflict or pressure that you feel
Melancholy sadness
Insanity was a natural phenomenon, it
Abnormal Psychology
Abnormality Maladaptive dysfunctional – non productive
Normal Adaptive able to produce positive outcomes
Ability to change behavior to meet demands of environment or situation, Able to protect, Learning what works and what doesn’t, taking responsibility
Statistics Population, Social norms, cultural
Irrational behavior – unpredictable
Cohort – groups experiencing things in the same time frame
Psychological – covers behaviors (suicide, compulsions, emotions, fear depression anger) and cognitions (hallucinations, suicidal thoughts)
Psychological Disorders
Behavioral emotional or cognitive dysfunctions that are unexpected in their cultural context (includes time) and associated with personal distress or substantial impairment in functioning.
Abnormality
Psychiatrist MD, Psychology PSYD EDD PHD, Psychiatric social workers
You need to know your limits as a doctor
Historical Concepts
Deviant behavior and unexplained phenomenon = evil
Certain behaviors are directly related to imbalances in brain chemicals, may be related to your environment.
Trephination the drilling of the holes. Refers to the archaeological findings that skulls had holes in them and that they were drilled, why? thought they were letting the bad out and good in
People that seemed possessed, if something happened to someone else it was your fault
Treatment for possession would consist of latest rituals, exorcisms etc., try to confine the person, beat them, chain them, all to make the bad spirits want to leave.
A Priori you take it at its value, there is no proof
Empirical proven
1500 Swiss Physician – Paracelsus
There was an association that the movement of the moon and the stars changed the psychological functioning - Lunatic
Believed that the possession concept should be rejected
Menses – lunar cycle, menstrual cycle 28 days, PMS
Stress conflict or pressure that you feel
Melancholy sadness
Insanity was a natural phenomenon, it