ASU PSY 366 Unrivaled Learning Superiority.

there is no clear line between what is normal and what is abnormal, requiring subjective decisions about when a person has a disorder or not Prevalence Number or percentage of cases of a disorder in a population at any specific time. Incidence Number or percentage of new cases that have appeared within a specific time. What are some ways prevalence and incidence estimates can be biased? They can be biased based on: -Sample (clinic vs. community) community is more accurate -Measures (how administered, who responds) -Diagnostic criteria (version of DSM, strictness) Trephination the process in which holes were drilled in the skulls of people displaying abnormal behavior, presumably to allow evil spirits to depart their bodies; performed in the stone age and into the middle ages Psychic epidemics phenomena in which large numbers of people begin to engage in unusual behaviors that appear to have a psychological origin Deinstitutionalization movement in which thousands of mental patients were released from mental institutions; a result of the patient's rights movement, which was aimed at stopping the dehumanization of mental patients and at restoring their basic legal rights. Advocates argued that patients could recover more fully or live more satisfying lives if they are integrated into the community, with the support of community-based treatment facilities. Psychiatrists (MD or DO)