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Health and mental illness
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Psychology
12th Grade
09/27/2012
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 What is normality?

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A pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviour that conforms to a usual, typical or expected standard. 
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 What is abnormality?

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A pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that is deviant, distressing and dysfunctional from what is considered normal or most prevalent in a cultural context.
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What are the six approaches to defining normality and abnormality? 

 

 

 

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Social-cultural, functional, historical, situational, medical and statistical
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