Please get both packets from

the table.

ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGYNormality/Abnormality

Mental Health Criteria

Learning Outcome: Examine the concepts of normality and abnormality. Discuss validity and reliability in diagnosis.

Success Criteria: Use of DSM and other avenues to define normality and identify mental disorders.

LETS LOOK AT THE IB HANDOUT

Abnormal Psychology

REVIEW Normality

Many ways to define normal Research in normality/abnormality

Rosenhan & Seligman (1984) p. 137

Seven criteria used to decide whether a person or behaviour is normal or not

1. Suffering (individual living)2. Maladaptiveness (individual living)3. Irrationality (individual living)4. Unpredictability (individual living)5. Vividness & Unconventionality (social judgment)6. Observer discomfort (social norms)7. Violation of moral or ideal standards (social norms)

EVALUATION (USE P. 137 FOR ASSISTANCE)

Write down a few ideas of potential issues with the 7 criteria to define normality

Write your answers below this line:

MENTAL HEALTH CRITERIA

Jahoda (1958) Established abnormal by defining

characteristics of normal behaviour Efficient self perception Realistic self esteem & acceptance Voluntary control of behaviour True perception of the world Sustaining relationships & giving affection Self-direction & productivity

What do these mean?

EVALUATION OF MENTAL HEALTH CRITERIA

While we can agree on what makes physiological health, we have a harder time with psychological health. Discuss the following question with a small

group: How do we determine what is psychologically

normal?

TAKE OUT THE SHEET YOU WORKED ON EARLIER.

You know, the one with the chart.

LOOK AT THE BIOLOGICAL (MEDICAL) MODEL

According to this model, what are the origins of abnormal behaviour? Use of psychopathology (observed

symptoms of a patient) to determine treatment

What is the type of treatment with this model?

Evaluate this model. What are the weaknesses?

DSM-IV (SOON TO BE V)

Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Handbook used by psychiatrists in the US to

identify and classify symptoms of psychiatric disorders

Pick up the handout

Snooki

USING PAGE 139

Write down what each of the following believe: Tomasz Szasz (1962) Frude (1998)

Read the blue box on p. 140 on shy children. Answer the questions at the bottom of the

page in a small group. We will discuss this as a larger group.