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See pathology everywhere

Abnormality: no easy def for abnormality
Element: Combination of elements make it abnormal, distrssing to the person,
-suffering
-maladaptiveness-imparing (they are depressed can range, causes a problem in the
m)
-Deviancy(uncommon, diffrent from the norm,in the population)
-Violation of standars of society(ex:anti personality disoder, hurting people)
also suicide,
-social disconfort( beavior causes disconfort to people around them, Ex: someone
who
wont stop talking, n wont have a conversation with because (their behavior cau
ses
disconfort to you)
-irrationality and upredictibility (does not make sense, ex:selling all their wo
rldly possession n
will walk aroud the US, non sensical)
*however, some people enjoy or are not affected by the illness
*deviant changes as society changes
-no one element is sufficient to define or determine abnormality
DSM (dignostical and statistical manual of mental disorder)
disorders are in a continum
clinical syndrome or patter-> associated with distress or disability-> behaviora
l, psychological dysfunction
in the individual
not everyone agrees with classification systems
dehumanize people and treating them as dianoses
-overuse of classification for mental disorders
-useful because fecilitates communication between professionals
-want to treat each person with the same treatment to maintain individuality
-has social and political implication
Disadvantages:
All people with people are seen alike, seen as lables, stigma n steryotyping
associated (with a label people make assumptions about them, ex:autism)
label affects self-esteem, people knowing they have somehting wrong with them
Ted- anti declassification system, not completely negative, trying to destigmati
ze
mental illnesses/positive outtake on mental illness
DSM 5 is sticking to a categorical system
Abnomal behavior in context
-afraid to leave parents,whinning, (19 years vs. 4 years)
-Understand context to understand behavior
ex: socialeconomic changes (ses) dangerous neighborhood n paranoid about safety
-Abnormality comes in a context
-Cuture affect beliefs about normality, clinical symptoms, variations
that culutures describe distress, variations around seeking traetment, stigma
culture shapes the way we difene problems, experience distress, how we try to s
olve it,
more minorities in the ER, they waited as long as they could to seek care (black
s)
Culture bound syndrome:
Taijin Kyufusho (conrned or worried about offending someone else) in Japan simil
ar to social phobia in the U.S (afraid of making a mistake or embaressed)
*they are considered variation, but based on culture its a variation
-Ataque de nervios- individual screams, drops in the floos, in the US it is simi
lar
to panic attacks or panic disorders (differ in the way its expressed)
-Culture shapes our perceptions about illness
Prevalence- (is higher than incidence)
active cases at a given time in pop (ex: depression)
year-typically expressesd as percentages
*point prevalence
*year "
*lifetime"
INcidence -number if new cases in the population
45% have a mental disorder over their life time
3 main: abuse of alcohol
If one person has one psychological disoders it likely that they have more
1) question what is the differnce between violation of standards and deviancy?