PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Beck Depression Inventory, Thomas Szasz, Standard Deviation
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Statistical criteria easier to recognize abnormal behaviour than it is to define. There are behaviours that most people do but the behaviour is still considered abnormal taking drugs (caffeine abuse most common etc. ) Murder is not abnormal if you have no idea its wrong then that is abnormal. Frequency, intensity, duration (most specific and important when diagnosing abnormal behaviour) Intensity - how far from the norm is it? (usually one standard deviation, 2 is a pathology disordered) Duration how long has it been going on? (not the most important for the diagnoses of everything depression) Environment chemistry: neurophysiological models brain is not working properly in certain areas abnormal behaviour, congenital, acquired, genetic physical damage or functioning damage (adhd part of the frontal, psychoanalytical model . Drugs don"t always work- you shouldn"t mediate for different thoughts are beliefs. Mental illness is a deviation from psychosocial, legal and ethical norms (homosexuality used to be in the dsm)
