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Mind Map by Georgia Hill, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Georgia Hill
about 9 years ago
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Psychopathology
- The failure to function adequately
- Definition:
- An inability to cope with day-to-day living
- An inability to cope with day-to-day living
- Features of personal dysfunction
- Description of features
- A key feature of abnormality. Includes depression and anxiety disorders
- Behaviour stopping individuals from attaining life goals, both socially and occupationally
- Displaying unexpected behaviours characterised by loss of control, like attempting
suicide after failing a test
- Displaying behaviour that cannot be explained in a rational way
- Displaying behaviour causing discomfort to others
- Displaying behaviour violating society's moral standards
- Displaying unconventional behaviours
- Displaying unconventional behaviours
- Displaying behaviour violating society's moral standards
- Displaying behaviour causing discomfort to others
- Displaying behaviour that cannot be explained in a rational way
- Displaying unexpected behaviours characterised by loss of control, like attempting
suicide after failing a test
- Behaviour stopping individuals from attaining life goals, both socially and occupationally
- A key feature of abnormality. Includes depression and anxiety disorders
- Personal distress
- Maladaptive behaviour
- Unpredictability
- Irrationality
- Observer discomfort
- Violation of moral standards
- Unconventionality
- Unconventionality
- Violation of moral standards
- Observer discomfort
- Irrationality
- Unpredictability
- Maladaptive behaviour
- Description of features
- Definition:
- Strengths of the definition:
- Matches sufferers' perceptions - as most people seeking clinical help
believe that they are suffering from psychological problems that
interfere with the ability to function properly, it supports the
definition
- Assesses degree of abnormality - as the GAF is scored on a continuous
scale, it allows clinicians to see the degree to which individuals are
abnormal and thus decide who needs psychiatric help
- Observable behaviour - it allows judgement by others of whether
individuals are functioning properly, as it focuses on obeservable
behaviours
- Checklist - the definition provides a practical checklist individuals can
use to assess their level of abnormality
- Personal perspective - it recognises the personal experience of sufferers and
thus allows mental disorders to be regarded from the perception of the
individuals suffering them
- Personal perspective - it recognises the personal experience of sufferers and
thus allows mental disorders to be regarded from the perception of the
individuals suffering them
- Checklist - the definition provides a practical checklist individuals can
use to assess their level of abnormality
- Observable behaviour - it allows judgement by others of whether
individuals are functioning properly, as it focuses on obeservable
behaviours
- Assesses degree of abnormality - as the GAF is scored on a continuous
scale, it allows clinicians to see the degree to which individuals are
abnormal and thus decide who needs psychiatric help
- Matches sufferers' perceptions - as most people seeking clinical help
believe that they are suffering from psychological problems that
interfere with the ability to function properly, it supports the
definition
- Limitations of the definition:
- Abnormality is not always accompanied by dysfunction -
psychopaths, people with dangerous personality disorders,
can cause great harm yet still appear normal
- Subjective nature of the features of dysfunction - although GAF
measures levels of functioning, it doesn't consider behaviour from
an individual's perspective
- Normal abnormality - there are times in people's lives when it is
normal to suffer distress, like when loved ones die
- Distress to others - behaviour may cause distress to other people
and be regarded as dysfunctional, while the person in question
feels no distress, like Stephen Gough, the naked rambler
- Personally rewarding abnormality - an individual's apparently
dysfunctional behaviour may actually be rewarding. For example,
a person's eating disorder can bring affection and attention to
others
- Cultural differences - what is considered 'normal functioning' varies
from culture to culture and so abnormal functioning of one culture
should not be used to judge people's behaviour from other cultures
and subcultures
- Cultural differences - what is considered 'normal functioning' varies
from culture to culture and so abnormal functioning of one culture
should not be used to judge people's behaviour from other cultures
and subcultures
- Personally rewarding abnormality - an individual's apparently
dysfunctional behaviour may actually be rewarding. For example,
a person's eating disorder can bring affection and attention to
others
- Distress to others - behaviour may cause distress to other people
and be regarded as dysfunctional, while the person in question
feels no distress, like Stephen Gough, the naked rambler
- Normal abnormality - there are times in people's lives when it is
normal to suffer distress, like when loved ones die
- Subjective nature of the features of dysfunction - although GAF
measures levels of functioning, it doesn't consider behaviour from
an individual's perspective
- Abnormality is not always accompanied by dysfunction -
psychopaths, people with dangerous personality disorders,
can cause great harm yet still appear normal
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