PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: National Comorbidity Survey, Mental Health Professional, Clinical Psychology
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Double-blind study neither the participants or the experimenter who was working with the participants knew which group was being controlled, and which was not. Placebo effect enable experimenters to control for the possibility that simply believing one is getting an effective type of treatment produces a therapeutic benefit. Irrationality and unpredictability we expect people to behave in certain ways but there is a point at which we are likely to consider a given unorthodox behaviour abnormal. Classification systems provide us with a nomenclature and enable us to structure information in a more helpful manner. As we simplify through classification, we inevitably lose an array of personal details about the actual person who has the disorder [disadvantage] There can be a stigma attached to receiving a psychiatric diagnosis not telling someone because of fear that talking candidly about having psychological problems will have unwanted social or occupational consequences [disadvantage]
