Psychopathology: Failure to Function Adequately
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- Created on: 15-03-17 16:04
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- Failure To Function Adequately
- Harold Shipman
- Gp
- Used job to kill people
- Had a normal life with a wife and family
- Killed over 250 people
- Overdosed them with morphine
- Serial killer
- Youngest victim-41
- 80% victims were women
- Made them to change will so they were cremated
- Got caught because of the small % of people that were buried
- Found guilty of only 15 murders
- Got caught because of the small % of people that were buried
- 1975-1998
- Gp
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Patients Perpective
- Everyone judged against characteristics
- Idiographic
- Takes individual differences into account
- Everyone is different
- Simply Deviation from Social Norms
- Social Construction
- Change due to what country you come from
- Cant be applied across cultures
- EX: Throwing plates
- Cant be applied across cultures
- Checklist
- How severe abnormality is
- Objective
- Vary information
- Fact based
- Observable Behaviour
- Empirical
- Can observe and measure data
- Increases validity
- Not just belief its a fact
- Patients Perpective
- Weaknesses
- Ignores Cultural Differences
- Socially constructive
- Cultures have different moral standards
- Could be maladaptive of irrational behaviour
- Sacrifcing people
- Cutting off hands for stealing
- Ignores Normal Abnormality
- Everyone will go through personal distress
- Loosing family member
- Everyone will go through personal distress
- Abnormality Is Not Always Accompanied By Dsyfunction
- Harold Shipman
- No sign of distress
- Normal life with a family
- Knew he was murdering people
- Still carried on with normal life
- Harold Shipman
- Ignores Cultural Differences
- Strengths
- Harold Shipman
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