Chapter 1: Looking at Abnormality
After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: - Discuss the factors that influence whether a behavior is regarded as normal or abnormal.
- Summarize the different criteria for defining abnormality, and know the strengths and weaknesses of each criterion.
- Describe the components of maladaptive behavior and how culture and gender may influence maladaptive behavior.
- Distinguish among supernatural, natural, and psychological theories of abnormality, and discuss how each type of theory has led to different ways of treating mentally ill people throughout history.
- Summarize how people from the Stone Age, the ancient Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks, and Hebrews thought about abnormality, and how each respective culture treated the mentally ill as a result.
- Discuss the historical shift from the early asylums in Europe and America to the moral management and mental hygiene movements.
- Identify some of the notable figures in psychology from the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries.
- Discuss the goal of the deinstitutionalization movement, how communities attempted to achieve that goal, and whether such efforts were successful.
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of managed care systems of mental health care service delivery.
- Discuss the professions within abnormal psychology and how they differ from one another.
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