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PSY 215 Module Eight Activity Template
Abnormal Psychology (Psy-215)
Southern New Hampshire University
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PSY 215 Module Eight Activity Template
For this journal activity, you will focus on reconstructing your view of what it means to be abnormal. Specifically, consider the notion of the humanity in abnormality. Then respond to the following prompts with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences. Address the rubric criteria listed below and support your answers with a credible source when necessary. Complete this template by replacing the bracketed text with the relevant information. - Discuss what it means to view our individual differences through a non-pathologizing lens. Viewing our differences through a non-pathologizing lens means that there is not one way to view others and just because their experiences or the way that they are is different, that does not mean they are not normal. This is just recognizing that each individual has unique ways they are and that does not mean that they need to be fixed or are not normal. It helps to be more empathetic and tolerant of others who don’t think or act as we do. - In recent times, people have begun to adopt a non-clinical view of psychological conditions—as differences, not disorders. Discuss the costs and benefits of viewing psychological traits, symptoms, and conditions in this manner. Some of the benefits of viewing differences in a non-clinical way would be that it helps to eliminate the stigma of mental health and stops us from looking at people that are different from us as if there is something wrong with them. This can also help by being more empathetic to someone’s own personal situation, no one that has a difference in their behavior is cookie cutter. Everyone has their own reasons, back story and trauma and should not be dealt with by a diagnosis and medication. Some of the costs of viewing differences through a non-clinical way is that it can cause there to not be a correct diagnosis made and some people really need mental health treatment. If we view everyone as just being maladjusted to life circumstances it could cause some people who really require help, being overlooked. Also, this could eliminate some of the necessary programs that are available to help individuals who struggle with mental illness, like loss of medical coverage and prevent them from getting the help they really need. - Think of an abnormal behavior that may be viewed as a deficit or a weakness. Discuss how aspects of this behavior may be reframed and reapplied as a strength. If you can take the weaknesses that are focus of ADHD and make them strengths it can make it a lot easier to deal with this. People with ADHD have an overload on adrenaline which causes chaos most of the time. I can recognize this as a strength and with the proper diet and sleep schedule can focus on more of the assets of being diagnosed with ADHD. My brain processes things super-fast, this means I am a quick learner, my brain allows me to handle stressful situations with more ease than some because it is used to being on high alert. I am full focus on
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one thing if I want to give up on something I can’t. My ADHD makes it literally impossible, if I find something that I am passionate about, my brain will not slow down until I figure the solution to what I am trying to do. Seeing these things as strengths allows me to gain control back of a situation I used to think of as unmanageable.
PSY 215 Module Eight Activity Template
Course: Abnormal Psychology (Psy-215)
University: Southern New Hampshire University
