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| Thoughts, feelings or behaviour that conforms to a usual, typical or expected standard |
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| Thoughts, feelings or behaviour that are appropriate in a particular society are viewed as normal |
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| Thoughts, feelings or behaviour are viewed a normal if the individual is able to cope with living independently in society. |
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| What is considered normal in a culture depends on the era, or time period when the judgement is made |
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| Thoughts, feelings or behaviour that may be accepted as normal in one situation may be abnormal in another |
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| Abnormal thoughts, feelings or behaviour are thought to have an underlying biological cause |
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| If a large group of people, statistical average, thinks, feels or behaves in a certain way it is considered normal |
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| A pattern of thoughts, feelings or behaviour that is deviant, distressing and dysfunctional |
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| A person's subjective experience of feeling unwell in relation to one or more aspects of their health |
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| Refers to the identifiable physiological changes associated with an abnormal bodily condition |
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| The body's ability to function efficiently and effectively in work and leisure activities and to resist disease |
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| Our subjective experience of a disease or physical health problem that interferes with the normal functioning of our body |
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| The capacity of an individual to interact with others and the environment in ways that promote subjective wellbeing and optimal development |
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| Mental disorder, a psychological dysfunction that usually involves impairment in the ability to deal with everyday life |
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| Psychological dysfunction |
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| A breakdown of cognitive, emotional and/or behavioural 'functioning' |
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| Biopsychosocial framework |
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| Approach to describing and explaining how biological, psychological and social factors combine to influence a person's health |
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| Organises and describes mental conditions and disorders in different categories, each with symptoms that are typical of the specific mental condition |
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| Classification system organises mental disorders into discrete and distinct disorders, enabling accurate diagnosing |
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| The classification system used will produce the same diagnosis each time it is used in the specific situation |
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| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) |
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| A categorical system for diagnosing and classifying mental disorders based on recognisable systems that are described |
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| When making a categorical diagnosis, these disorders are checked first to identify the current mental condition |
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| Describes only 2 categories of mental disorders, personality and intellectual disability |
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| Provides information about medical conditions that may be related to each of the mental disorders in Axis I and II |
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| Provides information about potential stressors in an individual's life that may be relevant to their disorder |
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| Used to asses an individual's overall level of psychological, social and occupational functioning when categorically diagnosing |
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| Global Assessment Functioning (GAF) |
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| Provides an overall numerical rating on a person's functioning, the higher the score the more effectively the person is considered to be functioning in everyday life |
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| International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) |
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| A categorical system for diagnosing and classifying mental disorders, more commonly used in Europe |
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| Quantifies a person's symptoms or other characteristics and represents them with numerical values on one or more scales or continuum |
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| Commonly viewwed as a cluster of related psychological and/or behavioural characteristics that tend to occur together and can be measured |
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| Scores on this questionnaire show how much (or little) a person 'has' each dimension but can also indicate degrees of psychological dysfunction |
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