PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fender Bassman, Mad Pride, Mental Disorder
11 Apr 2019
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Saving normal, chapter 1: bassman, r. (1997). Professional psychology: research and practice, 28(3), 238-242: gaudet, l. (2017). "even heroes get depressed": sponsorship and self-stigma in canada"s mental. Defining the individual mental disorders: many of our current categories and thresholds were created 35 years ago, difficult to balance trade-offs, between "reliability" and "validity" If criteria set includes things that are inferential or complicated, diff. clinicians will disagree on whether or not they are present. Is normality resilient or fragile: answer is both, resiliency is built into every aspect of our biological, psychological, and social being, governing principle of all life is homeostasis - a portmanteau word that combines the greek terms. "homeo" (same) and "stasis" (stable) to doubly emphasize the pursuit of equilibrium. And 4% of kids in american schools are getting medication. A recent canadian study really indicates the nature of the problem.
