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This page is very general. All of the sections could be expanded with more information. This is an article filled with information :) | abnormal psychology Jlucas1 ( talk) 05:55, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Well, since there is nothing here, I'd be happy to offer up a resource page full of information on both "normal" and "abnormal psychology", called fittingly enough, Current Topics in Psychology: http://www.psychservices.com/Current.shtml
You'll find many resources for parents, students, teachers, mental health professionals, and others interested in learning about a wide range of psychological functioning from Autism to Williams Syndrome. A public service from clinical psychologist Dr. Michael Fenichel.
Since just pretend to be scientific is not enough to be scientific, I will remove the scientific word on the first sentence. -- AnyFile 20:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Just kinda a small poll: how many people here actually believe that mental "disorders" are real? How many people believe this is just the governments way to control us?-- PoidLover 09:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I think this is irrelevant to the article and should be discussed somewhere else. It doesn't help the article improve in anyway. Scotlynnblair ( talk) 00:01, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
It's out of place and belongs on the phobias page. There are no descriptions of other mental disorders here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.253.26.148 ( talk) 20:09, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
This article says almost nothing about the history of abnormal psychology. It says nothing about the supernatural, biological, and psychological traditions. The History section starts with "The history of abnormal psychology began with Plato in the fourth century B.C.". I couldn't find any reliable source that supports this statement. I'm about to make a major change. Masterpiece2000 ( talk) 17:08, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
I noticed the newest update to this section mentions draining of "the four humors". Perhaps explain what these humors are (or more precisely, were thought to be)? I know I'm just being difficult, but humor me. AdamChirnside ( talk) 23:42, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Any ideas? I'll start off with a few:
How about condensing that tripartite (bad joke) references section? Do we need Notes, References and a Bibliography with one book? 207.162.58.3 ( talk) 12:48, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
How about some mention of the notion that a person can be "abnormal" but still fully functional. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.9.45.237 ( talk) 16:03, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Is this the same as Psychopathology?
Fred- J 22:12, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
... is a tautology. FiachraByrne ( talk) 02:35, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, I am a Clemson student currently working on a senior lab in which we are modifying Wikipeida Articles to help raise them to good or featured status. I am interested in editing this article due to its vagueness. I am currently taking an abnormal psychology class and feel that I could expand upon many of the sections particularly the one on the DSM as I feel it is very unclear.I would also like to elaborate more on the history section as I feel it is a bit short. -- Pwatson5291 ( talk) 15:06, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
I added info in the history, and DSM section of the page as part of my class assignment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pwatson5291 ( talk I also added additional information on the forms of therapy as well for my educational assignment. • contribs) 02:36, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
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The deinstitutionalization section lacks information on deinstitutionalization in the United States while talking about England and Australia. I am suggesting the below information to give users a quick overview on the role of deinstitutionalization in the United States:
In 1963, President John Kennedy launched the community health movement in the United States as a "bold new approach" to mental health care, aimed at coordinating mental health services for citizens in mental health centers. In the span of 40 years, the United States was able to see an about 90 percent drop in the number of patients in Psychiatric hospitals. <ref name="(Ab)normal Psychology"></ref>
References
Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan (2013). Abnormal Psychology (6th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0078035384.
Lissamg ( talk) 04:50, 16 November 2014 (UTC)11/15/2014
I'm going to add meaningful information about asylums I have retrieved from a textbook. Any object? Specifically will add information about the first asylum. — Preceding unsigned comment added by User:Eddy7748 ( talk • contribs)
Ok, will add citation. Thank you for your tips so far! Eddy7748 ( talk) 18:54, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
The DSM 5 got rid of the axis system. The page is referring to DSM IV...
What is normal, what is the contrary of that? - Well, it is a word, a term, a code of letters that was in history of human often used in context with fundamentalism. Like very typic in National Socialism or other system of dictatorship and violance. If somebody human is out there, somebody of central nervous system, not of Sympathetic nervous system, somebody with emotions, true feelings, with brain, with honesty, than we dont use this word of fundamenalism - normal or abnormal. - If you are for life and against atomic bombs n destroying, you and your friends can make a difference -- 77.56.118.154 ( talk) 23:01, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
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From reading the article on Abnormal Psychology, I enjoyed the way the that the article was laid out. I believe that the article has good structure and organization and the timeline that the article was laid out was easy to follow along with and understand. The article used good vocabulary and I did not pass anything in the article that needed to be edited due to bad grammar. However as I began reading the article, I believe that article includes more information about the history of practice in Abnormal Psychology the history of institutions. The article I almost feel went off topic when talking about the history and not mentioning any evidence about actual history of Abnormal Psychology (more than just practice). When examining the rest of the article, the article went on to describe Abnormal Psychology, but did not bring up any examples of disorders that are included in Abnormal Psychology. If I were a clinical Psychologist reading the article, it would be an easy article to read through and understand what it is trying to communicate. However, for an everyday consumer, it may be a little more challenging to fully understand what Abnormal Psychology is because it is missing examples of disorders. This article is a good article and has potential to be even better. It just has a few holes that need to be filled. Tianna Ramos Garcia ( talk) 05:28, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I am new to this so please bare with me. This article was really well written and was neutral and didn't appear to have any biases. I don't think there was any plagiarism in the article, and for me the links worked. I also don't think that there was really anything missing that needed to be added, the article was pretty vast and covered a lot. -- Phereinyx006 ( talk) 03:08, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
I think the opening needs to more fully summarize the content of the article in order to understand where this is going better. I think specifically it would be interesting if the asylums were mentioned. However, this is my first time reviewing a Wikipedia article and so I apologize if maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chisparks ( talk • contribs) 01:49, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I will be adding additional forms of therapy, as well as brief summaries/descriptions of some of the more prevalent psychological disorders. Thank You.-- RJSteed ( talk) 06:58, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
I noticed that the section about perspectives on abnormal psychology does not have any links or sources attached to it. If sources could be attached to it I feel like it would be a stronger section. Additionally, there are no images which could also help to further strengthen the article. JoshRumz ( talk) 01:23, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
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This page is very general. All of the sections could be expanded with more information. This is an article filled with information :) | abnormal psychology Jlucas1 ( talk) 05:55, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Well, since there is nothing here, I'd be happy to offer up a resource page full of information on both "normal" and "abnormal psychology", called fittingly enough, Current Topics in Psychology: http://www.psychservices.com/Current.shtml
You'll find many resources for parents, students, teachers, mental health professionals, and others interested in learning about a wide range of psychological functioning from Autism to Williams Syndrome. A public service from clinical psychologist Dr. Michael Fenichel.
Since just pretend to be scientific is not enough to be scientific, I will remove the scientific word on the first sentence. -- AnyFile 20:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Just kinda a small poll: how many people here actually believe that mental "disorders" are real? How many people believe this is just the governments way to control us?-- PoidLover 09:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I think this is irrelevant to the article and should be discussed somewhere else. It doesn't help the article improve in anyway. Scotlynnblair ( talk) 00:01, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
It's out of place and belongs on the phobias page. There are no descriptions of other mental disorders here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.253.26.148 ( talk) 20:09, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
This article says almost nothing about the history of abnormal psychology. It says nothing about the supernatural, biological, and psychological traditions. The History section starts with "The history of abnormal psychology began with Plato in the fourth century B.C.". I couldn't find any reliable source that supports this statement. I'm about to make a major change. Masterpiece2000 ( talk) 17:08, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
I noticed the newest update to this section mentions draining of "the four humors". Perhaps explain what these humors are (or more precisely, were thought to be)? I know I'm just being difficult, but humor me. AdamChirnside ( talk) 23:42, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Any ideas? I'll start off with a few:
How about condensing that tripartite (bad joke) references section? Do we need Notes, References and a Bibliography with one book? 207.162.58.3 ( talk) 12:48, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
How about some mention of the notion that a person can be "abnormal" but still fully functional. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.9.45.237 ( talk) 16:03, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Is this the same as Psychopathology?
Fred- J 22:12, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
... is a tautology. FiachraByrne ( talk) 02:35, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
This article is currently the subject of an educational assignment. |
Hello, I am a Clemson student currently working on a senior lab in which we are modifying Wikipeida Articles to help raise them to good or featured status. I am interested in editing this article due to its vagueness. I am currently taking an abnormal psychology class and feel that I could expand upon many of the sections particularly the one on the DSM as I feel it is very unclear.I would also like to elaborate more on the history section as I feel it is a bit short. -- Pwatson5291 ( talk) 15:06, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
I added info in the history, and DSM section of the page as part of my class assignment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pwatson5291 ( talk I also added additional information on the forms of therapy as well for my educational assignment. • contribs) 02:36, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 29 October 2019 and 19 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Sarahmurphy78.
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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 16:46, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 13:15, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
The deinstitutionalization section lacks information on deinstitutionalization in the United States while talking about England and Australia. I am suggesting the below information to give users a quick overview on the role of deinstitutionalization in the United States:
In 1963, President John Kennedy launched the community health movement in the United States as a "bold new approach" to mental health care, aimed at coordinating mental health services for citizens in mental health centers. In the span of 40 years, the United States was able to see an about 90 percent drop in the number of patients in Psychiatric hospitals. <ref name="(Ab)normal Psychology"></ref>
References
Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan (2013). Abnormal Psychology (6th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0078035384.
Lissamg ( talk) 04:50, 16 November 2014 (UTC)11/15/2014
I'm going to add meaningful information about asylums I have retrieved from a textbook. Any object? Specifically will add information about the first asylum. — Preceding unsigned comment added by User:Eddy7748 ( talk • contribs)
Ok, will add citation. Thank you for your tips so far! Eddy7748 ( talk) 18:54, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
The DSM 5 got rid of the axis system. The page is referring to DSM IV...
What is normal, what is the contrary of that? - Well, it is a word, a term, a code of letters that was in history of human often used in context with fundamentalism. Like very typic in National Socialism or other system of dictatorship and violance. If somebody human is out there, somebody of central nervous system, not of Sympathetic nervous system, somebody with emotions, true feelings, with brain, with honesty, than we dont use this word of fundamenalism - normal or abnormal. - If you are for life and against atomic bombs n destroying, you and your friends can make a difference -- 77.56.118.154 ( talk) 23:01, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
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From reading the article on Abnormal Psychology, I enjoyed the way the that the article was laid out. I believe that the article has good structure and organization and the timeline that the article was laid out was easy to follow along with and understand. The article used good vocabulary and I did not pass anything in the article that needed to be edited due to bad grammar. However as I began reading the article, I believe that article includes more information about the history of practice in Abnormal Psychology the history of institutions. The article I almost feel went off topic when talking about the history and not mentioning any evidence about actual history of Abnormal Psychology (more than just practice). When examining the rest of the article, the article went on to describe Abnormal Psychology, but did not bring up any examples of disorders that are included in Abnormal Psychology. If I were a clinical Psychologist reading the article, it would be an easy article to read through and understand what it is trying to communicate. However, for an everyday consumer, it may be a little more challenging to fully understand what Abnormal Psychology is because it is missing examples of disorders. This article is a good article and has potential to be even better. It just has a few holes that need to be filled. Tianna Ramos Garcia ( talk) 05:28, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I am new to this so please bare with me. This article was really well written and was neutral and didn't appear to have any biases. I don't think there was any plagiarism in the article, and for me the links worked. I also don't think that there was really anything missing that needed to be added, the article was pretty vast and covered a lot. -- Phereinyx006 ( talk) 03:08, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
I think the opening needs to more fully summarize the content of the article in order to understand where this is going better. I think specifically it would be interesting if the asylums were mentioned. However, this is my first time reviewing a Wikipedia article and so I apologize if maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chisparks ( talk • contribs) 01:49, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I will be adding additional forms of therapy, as well as brief summaries/descriptions of some of the more prevalent psychological disorders. Thank You.-- RJSteed ( talk) 06:58, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
I noticed that the section about perspectives on abnormal psychology does not have any links or sources attached to it. If sources could be attached to it I feel like it would be a stronger section. Additionally, there are no images which could also help to further strengthen the article. JoshRumz ( talk) 01:23, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 8 January 2024 and 20 April 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Avaught23001 ( article contribs).
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