3 Approaches to defining abnormality

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3 Approaches to defining abnormality
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Deviation from normality

• What most people do is normal
• Problem-
• If bad things are normal, are those that do good
  abnormal?

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Adjustment

• If you cant function, or fail to adjust - youre
  not normal
• Problem-
• Behaviors normal in one society may not be normal
  in another society

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Psychological Health

• Mental illness is like a sickness, normal is
  functioning ideally or at least striving to
• Problem-
• How can you tell if someones doing their best?

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Anxiety Disorders
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Anxiety

• generalized apprehension feeling one is in
  danger

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Phobias

• intense and irrational fear of a particular
  object or situation
• Example agoraphobia fear of open spaces
• Another example - Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliopho
  bia
• (fear of long words)

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SKIT

• Research 2 phobias
• write down their names on the board, then perform
  2 separate short skits to allow your classmates
  to try to figure out what fears they represent