Defining Abnormality
- Created by: KnightOfScarves
- Created on: 01-05-14 12:32
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- Defining Abnormality
- Deviation from Social Norms (DSN)
- Written rules or accepted ways of behaving
- Social norms vary over times
- Unpredictable or observer discomfort
- May violate ideal and moral standards
- Difficult to understand
- Different cultures have different norms
- Context needs to be taken into account
- Is not absolute and era dependant (Homosexuality was seen as an illness)
- Context needs to be taken into account
- Failure to function adequately (FFA)
- Rosenham and Seligman (1989)
- Unable to follow everyday behaviour
- Observer discomfort
- Unpredictability
- Irrational
- Maladptiveness
- Irrational
- Unpredictability
- Some disorders don't effect everyday life
- Context
- Culture
- Economic reasons (Unable to get a job, ect)
- Culture
- Context
- Deviation from ideal metal health (DIMH)
- Jahoda (1958)
- White, western
- Positive
- Focused
- Resistant to stress
- Independence
- Reality
- Adapting
- Reality
- Independence
- Resistant to stress
- Focused
- Culture
- How far does a person have to deviate?
- Can induce stress
- How far does a person have to deviate?
- Jahoda (1958)
- Deviation from Social Norms (DSN)
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