PSY100H1 Chapter 14: Chapter 14
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The only effective treatment for asd - behavioral therapies. Syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual"s cognition, emotional regulation or behaviors that reflect dysfunction in biological, psychological and developmental process underlying mental functioning. The study of psychological disorders - abnormal psychology. It is difficult for psychologist to agree on the difference between typical and abnormal behaviors because deciding that an individual"s mental state and behaviors are abnormal is the first step to label it as psychological disorders and provide treatments. One example: intellectual disability (rely hard on statistical approach) Statistically abnormality: away from rule (both iq over 130 and below 70) Often fail to capture the distress accompanying mental disorders. Can be solved considering mental disorders as displaying less than "ideal" behaviors. Psychological disorders are diagnosed based purely on observable behaviors. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) International statistical classification of disease and related health problem. Different psychological perspectives have different values to different diseases.
