deviation from ideal mental health as a definition for abnormality

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Created by: AnnabellP
Created on: 11-12-17 10:01

When can we begin to identify who deviates from this ideal?

once we have a picture of how we should be psychologically healthy

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Who suggested 8 points of criteria to meet ideal mental health?

Jahoda (1958)

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What are the 8 criteria?

no symptoms of distress, ration and accurate perception of selves, self-actualise, cope with stress, realistic view of the world, good self esteem and lack guilt, independent of other people, successfully work, love and enjoy our leisure

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What is there inevitably an overlap between?

what we might call deivation from ideal mental health and what we might call failure to function adequately

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What can we therefore think of someone's inability to keep a job as?

either a failure to cope with the pressures of work or as a deviation from the ideal of successfully working

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Who suggested 8 points of criteria to meet ideal mental health?

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Jahoda (1958)

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What are the 8 criteria?

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What is there inevitably an overlap between?

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What can we therefore think of someone's inability to keep a job as?

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deviation from ideal mental health as a definition for abnormality