After reading this article you will learn about the treatment and management of grief. Grief is a common experience of emotion. It is characterized by sadness, tension, weeping, crying, feeling of sorrow and remorse. Withdrawal from the outside world is very common in a person experiencing grief. Besides there is loss of appetite and hence weight loss is observed. Sexual [...]
This article throws light upon the seven main concepts of abnormality. The concepts are: 1. Qualitative Concept 2. Inadequate Response to a Stimulus 3. Inappropriateness to Social Standard 4. Statistical Criterion 5. Pathological Criterion 6. Personality Adjustment 7. Socially Unacceptable Behaviour of Abnormality. Concept # 1. Qualitative Concept: According to the qualitative concept, normality and abnormality differ in quality and [...]
After reading this article you will learn about Freud’s view on normal and abnormal behaviour. Freud's view that nobody is cent per cent normal though held by some as an exaggeration, it should be accepted beyond doubt that abnormality is perhaps the major problem of a modern civilized society. It is, however, unfortunate that this problem has been very much [...]