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Question 1 What are the four main criteria that are used to differentiate abnormal behaviour from normal behaviour?
Question 2 How does Wakefield's notion of 'harmful dysfunction' help to differentiate the concept of mental disorder from the concepts of medical disorder and social deviance?
Question 3 In what ways does the classification of psychological disorders (e.g., depression) differ from the classification of medical disorders (e.g., cancer)?
Question 4 What were the main changes in behaviourism that allowed the development of the cognitive-behavioural perspective?
Question 5 How is the behavioural approach to understanding mental disorders fundamentally different from the psychoanalytic approach?
Question 6 If an individual inherits a biological vulnerability for a mental disorder, does this mean that he/she is destined to develop a disorder? Explain using the biopsychosocial model of mental disorders.
Question 7 What were the main limitations of the DSM-I and DSM-II?
Question 8 How can the reliability of a mental disorder diagnosis be improved?
Question 9 In what ways did the DSM-III differ from its predecessors?
Question 10 List the main limitations of the categorical system of classification reflected in the DSM-III and beyond.