• Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you examine the field of abnormal psychology. Address the following items: o Briefly examine the origins of abnormal psychology. Include challenges to defining and classifying normal and abnormal behavior. o Provide a brief overview of how abnormal psychology has evolved into a scientific discipline. o Briefly analyze the psychosocial, biological/medical, and sociocultural theoretical models related to the development of abnormal psychology. • Format your paper according to APA standards.…
Even though abnormal psychology is a highly controversial aspect of psychology, often challenges define and classify normal and abnormal behavior. Abnormal psychology has evolved into a scientific discipline and several theories have advanced our comprehension of psychology through theoretical models. Abnormal psychology is defined as a branch of psychology that correlates with psychopathology and abnormal behavior. The word describes a broad range of illnesses, from depression to obsession-compulsion, to sexual deviance and several more. Certified counselors, clinical psychologists and psychotherapists often…
Abnormal psychology is a study which defines, give details about why it happens, tries to calculate violence and hazardous behavior, and tries to regulate unusual behavior. The behavior ranges from risky or unusual behavior to more unsensational and prevalent ones such as people with depression who stays in their homes. Standards that are normal and abnormal. There are five standards cultural relativism unusual behavior, discomfort level for person experiencing the problem .However the problem with the discomfort theory, the person may not be aware that they are suffering. Mental illness, maladaptiveness (does it interfere with daily activities) Abnormal psychology is an area of psychology that primarily focuses “psychopathology and abnormal behavior” abnormal depends on what is considered “normal” in that social, cultural or religious context. It is important to include variations of “subcultures” such as downtown Seattle “grunge” group which is a normal mode of behavior. Acceptable practice within a subculture as well as culture. Another subculture would be a prison population. One example of religious normal practice is the belief that “God” will heal your child not medicine…
Bibliography: Carson, R., Butcher, J., and Mineka, S. (2000). Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life, Eleventh Edition. Massachusetts: Allyn & Bacon.…
Abnormal psychology studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion, and thought in order to predict, interpret, describe, explain and change abnormal patterns of functioning which may or may not be a mental disorder. It is not as uncommon as one may think, in fact thousands of people suffer from this disorder; some suffer mental disorders until they are dead. There are several theories as to why abnormal behavior occurs.…
Although humans have attempted to understand their own behavior since the beginning of time, it wasn’t until the latter part of the 19th century that academics attempted the creation of a new field of science called abnormal psychology.…
A number of these disorders can harm others or the one who is battling with the disorder. There are a number of therapies for these disorders and are different in each case. A closer look and contrast of normal and abnormal psychology is need along with mental disturbance and mental disease from a psychology position polishing off by way of a look at different therapies useful for normal and abnormal psychology.…
Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought, which may or may not underlie a mental disorder. There are several models used to explain the nature and treatment of mental illness. A model is a set of assumptions and concepts that help scientists explain and interpret observations. Over the past half-century, improvements in clinical research has resulted in the shifts of values and beliefs in some models. All the models attempt to explain the causes and cures for all psychological illnesses, and all from a different approach. Through the centuries, approaches have developed and there are many…
A.having a psychological problem that is correlated with no physical symptoms B.pretending to have an illness for an external gain C.having a disorder characterized by the preoccupation with pain D.giving self-centered and melodramatic reports of symptoms Answer Key: B…
No meaning of abnormality has been completely approved by the psychological community. However, having knowledge of unusual mindset is important to evaluating one’s conduct in deciding what a meaning must be (Hansell & Damour, 2008). Unusual conduct is usually regarded as conduct which is the opposite of social norms, with usual conduct being the very opposite. In this ability, it 's particularly important to analyze the topic of unusual mindset so as to correctly categorize usual and unusual conduct. This paper will analyze the roots of unusual mindset as well as the problems to defining as well as classifying usual as well as unusual conduct. It will also examine the development of unusual mindset as well as how it has developed into a scientific field. Finally, this document will examine the psychosocial, sociocultural, and biological/medical theoretical models relevant to the growth of unusual psychology.…
Nevid, J, Rathus, S, & Greene, B (2008). Abnormal Psychology In A Changing World (Seventh Edition). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc..…
Abnormal psychology which is known as psychopathology, is the subfield of psychology devoted to the study of mental disorders (Hansell, 2008). Due to abnormal psychology being able to be a vast majority of many different illnesses, it is unable to be defined solely with one definition.…
Annotated Bibliography: Prepared by Jennifer Hust Durand, V.M. & Barlow, D.H. (2009). Essentials of abnormal psychology(5th Ed.). Belmont, CA. Wadsworth. This book explains abnormal psychology through their the most modern, scientific method for studying the subject.…
Abnormal behaviour was once thought to be caused by supernatural possession; this demonological model of abnormality was especially popular in the Middle Ages. It was not until the 18th century that psychologists began to argue that this behaviour should be treated as an illness and medical techniques could be used to treat it; and so emerged the medical model of abnormality. (Gross & McIlveen, 1996)1 The medical model of abnormal psychology treats mental disorders in the same way as a physical illness. Practitioners of this model believe mental illness to have a physical cause, therefore they treat mental disorders with somatic intervention such as medication, electroconvulsive therapy or in extreme cases, psychosurgery. It is largely believed that biological events have behavioural consequences and behavioural events have biological consequences. (Wickens, 2005)2…
Abnormal Psychology(deviance): Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as precipitating a mental disorder.…