Psychological abnormality may include deviance, distress,
dysfunction, and danger. First, explain what these terms mean
regarding psychological abnormality. Second, provide an
example of a time when each aspect of abnormality would not be
considered abnormal.
2 Suppose a friend of your...
1 Psychological abnormality may include deviance, distress, dysfunction, and danger. First, explain what these terms mean regarding psychological abnormality. Second, provide an example of a time when each aspect of abnormality would not be considered abnormal.
2 Suppose a friend of yours says to you, “I feel really lousy today, and I don't know why. You're taking abnormal psych—what do you think?” If, after your conversation with your friend, your friend feels better about things, have you provided psychological therapy? Why or why not? Include the essential features of therapy in your answer.
3 What is demonology? How does demonology stand in the way of a more complete understanding of the causes and treatment of psychological abnormality?
4 Discuss the contributions of three of the following individuals to the treatment of abnormal psychology. Include when and where each lived. Hippocrates Emil Kraepelin Dorothea Dix Philippe Pinel Friedrich Anton Mesmer Benjamin Rush William Tuke
5 Assume that Benjamin Rush and Dorothea Dix suddenly appeared in the twenty-first century, about 50 years after the U.S. policy of deinstitutionalization began. What would they think about our treatment of the “mentally ill?” What PSYC 3140 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TESTED AND VERIFIED 2024/2025 GRADED A+ suggestions might they make for changes in our policy of deinstitutionalization?
6 Define and contrast somatogenic and psychogenic perspectives regarding abnormal psychological functioning, and provide at least one example of evidence supporting each perspective.
7 According to your text, deinstitutionalization has resulted, in part, in large numbers of people with severe psychological disturbances either becoming homeless or ending up in jail or prison. Is deinstitutionalization an ethical and appropriate strategy for the treatment of mental illness that the United States should continue to follow? Back up your answer with specific examples.
8 Increasingly, people seeking treatment for mental health reasons are members of managed care programs. How are managed care programs changing how psychological services are provided? Discuss one advantage and one disadvantage of such programs.
9 The following types of mental health professionals work in the area of psychological abnormality; describe the differences in how they are educated, and in what they do. clinical psychologists psychiatrists clinical researchers
10 Create a time line on which you place five major events in the history of abnormality. Briefly describe why each event is important to our understanding of abnormality.
11 The aspect of the definition of abnormality that characterizes behavior as different from the norm is . deviance (True Answer ) * 12 The stated and unstated rules that a society establishes to govern proper conduct are referred to as . norms (True Answer ) * 13 Ken is so anxious that his anxiety by itself causes him to suffer. Ken's situation represents the aspect of the definition of abnormality called . distress (True Answer ) * 14 Colleen is so afraid of open spaces that she cannot leave her house to go to work. This represents the aspect of the definition of abnormality called . dysfunction (True Answer ) * 15 Heather has been feeling depressed and has begun to feel helpless and hopeless and is considering committing suicide. Killing herself represents the aspect of the definition of abnormality called . danger (True Answer ) * 16 The idea that the behaviors we label abnormal are just problems in living has been proposed by . Thomas Szasz (True Answer ) * 17 While some clinicians will refer to the person they are treating as a patient, others will refer to the person as a(n) . client (True Answer ) * 18 The crude early form of surgery in which a hole was made in the skull of a person, presumably to allow evil spirits to escape, was called . trephination (True Answer ) * 19 The procedure that a priest or other powerful person might perform to drive evil spirits from a person is called . exorcism (True Answer ) * 20 believed that abnormal behavior was caused by brain pathology that was a consequence of an imbalance in the four humors of the body. Hippocrates (True Answer ) * 21 The “parent” of modern medicine who believed that illnesses had natural causes was . Hippocrates (True Answer ) * 22 During the Middle Ages, a person who believed that he was possessed by wolves and other animals was said to be suffering from . lycanthropy (True Answer ) * 23 The roots of today's community mental health programs can be traced back to the fifteenth century when people came to the Belgian town of for psychic healing. Gheel (True Answer ) * 24 An approach to treating people with mental dysfunction that emphasized humane and respectful approaches was known as treatment.
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