Based on your required resources, define abnormal psychology.
Abnormal psychology is about mental and emotional disorders and with certain incompletely
understood normal phenomena. (Getzfeld, 2018).
Interpret why you
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Based on your required resources, define abnormal psychology.
Abnormal psychology is about mental and emotional disorders and with certain incompletely
understood normal phenomena. (Getzfeld, 2018).
Interpret why you believe it is important for clinicians to consider the three perspectives of
abnormality.
I believe that it is important for clinicians to consider the three perspectives because it is extremely
difficult to arrive at a universal definition of abnormal behavior. However, they all agree in general about
what the term means but they may use different perspectives to define it. (Getzfeld, 2018).
Discuss the origins of mental illness and how theories throughout time have affected the
metamorphosis of abnormal psychology. Each of the three perspective has it own usefulness and
limitations.
In ancient times dating back to 6500 BCE have been discovered with holes into them, this is called
trepanning. They believed that putting the hole into the skull would allow evil spirits to leave the body of
the possessed person. Later in medieval societies trained priests would perform exorcism, they would
use this to drive the evil spirit from the possessed person or even a house. These are also performed
today. In the Middle Ages from about fifth to the fifteenth centuries, they believed that demons were
causing the mental illnesses in certain people, they used this as a treatment for mental illnesses. Around
the 1400’s through 1700 mental illness improved drastically, they believed that people with mental
illness had sick minds and it needed to be treated along with their bodies. Then they created asylums,
when this first started they took care of the mentally ill in a humane fashion, however it became
overcrowded and soon turned to torture (Getzfeld, 2018).
Identify at least two of the theoretical foundations associated with abnormal psychology.
Sigmund Freud published his first book alone was the interpretations of dreams, then Freud studied the
reproductive systems of eels. Freud went to Paris to study neurology after a few other then that Freud
studied and experimented he soon found out that one of the best treatments were for patients to talk
through their problems. He viewed human behavior as three parts and if the three parts are not satisfied
or unconscious desires come into consciousness, anxiety can occur, this can lead to abnormal behaviors
(Getzfeld, 2018).
Aaron Beck developed the cognitive perspective theory, he used this to examine unipolar depression,
this kind of depression only has one pole or dysfunctional mood state. The cognitive perspective
attributes abnormal behavior to faulty thinking and having negative thought will contribute to abnormal
behaviors (Getzfeld, 2018).
Discuss your understanding for the use of the DSM-5, and how it too has changed the process for
diagnosis.
Since the DSM came out in 1952 to 2013 there has been multiple changes through the years, what was
changed for the DSM-5 was Asperger’s syndrome was dropped, OCD got their own chapter, they The
multiaxial system was removed. Moved from a categorical model, in which symptoms are based on a
checklist format, to a dimensional model, in which symptoms are organized on a spectrum from mild to
severe (). The DSM-5 that describes mental disorders and their symptoms and gives statistics and gender
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