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the table.
ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGYNormality/Abnormality
Mental Health Criteria
Learning Outcome: Examine the concepts of normality and abnormality. Discuss validity and reliability in diagnosis.
Success Criteria: Use of DSM and other avenues to define normality and identify mental disorders.
LETS LOOK AT THE IB HANDOUT
Abnormal Psychology
REVIEW Normality
Many ways to define normal Research in normality/abnormality
Rosenhan & Seligman (1984) p. 137
Seven criteria used to decide whether a person or behaviour is normal or not
1. Suffering (individual living)2. Maladaptiveness (individual living)3. Irrationality (individual living)4. Unpredictability (individual living)5. Vividness & Unconventionality (social judgment)6. Observer discomfort (social norms)7. Violation of moral or ideal standards (social norms)
EVALUATION (USE P. 137 FOR ASSISTANCE)
Write down a few ideas of potential issues with the 7 criteria to define normality
Write your answers below this line:
MENTAL HEALTH CRITERIA
Jahoda (1958) Established abnormal by defining
characteristics of normal behaviour Efficient self perception Realistic self esteem & acceptance Voluntary control of behaviour True perception of the world Sustaining relationships & giving affection Self-direction & productivity
What do these mean?
EVALUATION OF MENTAL HEALTH CRITERIA
While we can agree on what makes physiological health, we have a harder time with psychological health. Discuss the following question with a small
group: How do we determine what is psychologically
normal?
TAKE OUT THE SHEET YOU WORKED ON EARLIER.
You know, the one with the chart.
LOOK AT THE BIOLOGICAL (MEDICAL) MODEL
According to this model, what are the origins of abnormal behaviour? Use of psychopathology (observed
symptoms of a patient) to determine treatment
What is the type of treatment with this model?
Evaluate this model. What are the weaknesses?
DSM-IV (SOON TO BE V)
Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Handbook used by psychiatrists in the US to
identify and classify symptoms of psychiatric disorders
Pick up the handout
Snooki
USING PAGE 139
Write down what each of the following believe: Tomasz Szasz (1962) Frude (1998)
Read the blue box on p. 140 on shy children. Answer the questions at the bottom of the
page in a small group. We will discuss this as a larger group.