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What is personal distress?
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Subjective discomfort
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What is statistical deviance?
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Relative frequency of specific condition in general population
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What is social non-conformity?
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Violation of moral standards, observer discomfort, situational/cultural context
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What was Thomas Szasz’ view of mental illness?
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Myth of mental illness, he didn’t believe in existence but blamed environmental problems as trigger points
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What was David Ausubel’s view of mental illness?
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Mental illness as tangible, undesired behavior
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Mental illness is...
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A natural concept
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What are symptoms?
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Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that indicate a mental disorder
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What are syndromes?
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A group of symptoms that tend to co-occur and are assumed to have a common etiology
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What are additional considerations of symptoms and syndromes?
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Duration and impairment
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What are the 2 conditions of the Gerome Wakefield’s Harmful Disfunction definition of a mental disorder?
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Failure of internal mechanism to perform natural function and causes harm to the person
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What are examples of the zeitgeist role of culture?
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Drapetomania, homosexuality (out), and pathological gambling (in)
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What is EMIC?
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Examines behavior from within a culture, using culture-specific criteria
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What is ETIC?
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Emphasis on universals among human beings from a position outside the culture of interest
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T/F Culture influences mental disorders.
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True
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What is the Problem Suppression-Facilitation Model?
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Culture suppresses some behaviors (i.e. punishment), but it facilitates others (i.e. modeling and reinforcement)
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