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After reading and studying this chapter and participating in lecture and discussion, students should be able to:
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Discuss the factors that influence whether a behavior is regarded as normal or abnormal. |
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Summarize the different criteria for defining abnormality, and know the strengths and weaknesses of each criterion. |
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Describe the components of maladaptive behavior and how culture and gender may influence maladaptive behavior. |
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Distinguish among supernatural, biological, and psychological theories of abnormality, and discuss how each type of theory has led to different ways of treating mentally ill people throughout history. |
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Summarize how people from the Stone Age, the ancient Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks, and Hebrews thought about abnormality, and how each respective culture treated the mentally ill as a result. |
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Discuss the historical shift from the early asylums in Europe and America to the moral treatment movement. |
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Identify some of the notable figures in psychology from the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries. |
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Discuss the goal of the deinstitutionalization movement, how communities attempted to achieve that goal, and whether such efforts were successful. |
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Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of managed care systems of mental health care service delivery. |
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Discuss the professions within abnormal psychology and how they differ from one another. |