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Psychology and Mental Health Basics

Adjustment is important to determine normal from abnormal behavior as normal people can function physically, emotionally, and socially, while abnormal people fail to adjust to the real world. Maslow's self-actualization theory represents an individual's growth towards fulfilling their highest needs for meaning in life. The DSM-5 uses axes to determine a person's mental state based on other illnesses that may influence feelings or behaviors.

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Psychology and Mental Health Basics

Adjustment is important to determine normal from abnormal behavior as normal people can function physically, emotionally, and socially, while abnormal people fail to adjust to the real world. Maslow's self-actualization theory represents an individual's growth towards fulfilling their highest needs for meaning in life. The DSM-5 uses axes to determine a person's mental state based on other illnesses that may influence feelings or behaviors.

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Assignment 1

1.)Adjustment is important to determine normal from abnormal


because people say it is normal that people are able to get along
in the real world, physically, emotionally and socially. They can
feed and clothe themselves, work, find friends and live by the
rules. People who are abnormal are the ones who fail to adjust.

2.)Maslow’s idea of self-actualization represents growth of an


individual toward fulfillment of the highest needs those for
meaning in life, in particular

3.) The dsm-5 is a series of axis that psychologists use to determine


someone’s mental state based on other illnesses that also might
be influences another feeling or behaviour.

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