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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Defining Mental Health: A Short Introduction
This online course provided an introduction to how we define 'normal' mental health and what good mental health looks like. You have covered topics that include what is abnormality? Myths about mental illness, cultural relativism and an overview of the diagnostic statistical manual
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
Lucy Anacleto
Course Tutor on Access to HE Social Sciences
Coventry University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain the difficulties in defining abnormality and normality
- Identify the difference in abnormality and normality
- Explain the four concepts of abnormality
- Identify cultural variation in defining mental illness
Syllabus
You will explore the key areas below through case studies, multi-media, collaborative and active learning:
- What is abnormality?
- What is a norm?
- Myth and ideas of mental illness
- Definitions of the concepts of abnormality
- Cultural relativism
- DSM 5 – Diagnostic Statistical Manual – an overview
Issued on 22nd May 2019
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