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The topic and directed area of focus for this section is Psychopathology. Psychopathology is the studied idea of varies thoughts, behaviors, and emotions expressed. These three are expressed very differently throughout each individual. Psychiatric disability can be developed from an altered behavior, emotion, or thought. Some of the major sections included within the article are read as supernatural and psychological explanations as well as a range of many other mental disorders listed and described in the latter portion of the article. Psychopathology is a heavily researched and studied area in the field of psychology.
Abnormal Psychology is the study of various thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. These aspects are expressed differently in each individual. Psychiatric disabilities can develop from altered behaviors, emotions, or thoughts. Major sections within the article include supernatural and psychological explanations, as well as descriptions of many mental disorders listed in the latter portion. Psychopathology is a heavily researched and studied area in the field of psychology. I would alter the title to read psychopathology because the diseases within psychology are well grouped in to one and could stand to be identified as its own.
Abnormal Psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion, and thought, which could possibly be understood as a mental disorder. Although many behaviors could be considered as abnormal, this branch of psychology typically deals with behavior in a clinical context.[1][2]: 1–4 There is a long history of attempts to understand and control behavior deemed to be aberrant or deviant (statistically, functionally, morally, or in some other sense), and there is often cultural variation in the approach taken. The field of abnormal psychology identifies multiple causes for different conditions, employing diverse theories from the general field of psychology and elsewhere, and much still hinges on what exactly is meant by "abnormal". There has traditionally been a divide between psychological and biological explanations, reflecting a philosophical dualism in regard to the mind–body problem. There have also been different approaches in trying to classify mental disorders. Abnormal includes three different categories; they are subnormal, supernormal and paranormal.[3]
The science of abnormal psychology studies two types of behaviors: adaptive and maladaptive behaviors. Behaviors that are maladaptive suggest that some problem(s) exist, and can also imply that the individual is vulnerable and cannot cope with environmental stress, which is leading them to have problems functioning in daily life in their emotions, mental thinking, physical actions and talks. Behaviors that are adaptive are ones that are well-suited to the nature of people, their lifestyles and surroundings, and to the people that they communicate with, allowing them to understand each other.[4]
Clinical psychology is the applied field of psychology that seeks to assess, understand, and treat psychological conditions in clinical practice. The theoretical field known as abnormal psychology may form a backdrop to such work, but clinical psychologists in the current field are unlikely to use the term abnormal in reference to their practice. Psychopathology is a similar term to abnormal psychology, but may have more of an implication of an underlying pathology (disease process), which assumes the medical model of mental disturbance and as such, is a term more commonly used in the medical specialty known as psychiatry.[5]