Psychology / Unit 12 Psych 1316 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Culture and the Definition of Disorder
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The idea
What counts as disordered behavior depends partly on cultural norms about acceptable and expected conduct.
In practice
Experiences understood as spiritual in one community are assessed as symptoms in another.
Where people slip
Cultural variation does not make diagnosis arbitrary. It requires the diagnostic threshold to be applied in context.
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