Basically, this is about Assignment 14. What is madness? More to the point, how can we define abnormal behaviour? The assignment asks for you to choose three out of the five, describe/explain and evaluate them. You know how to do this by now. You see, the assignment appeared at the beginning of last year's course and the headings in task 2 are designed to help people evaluate. So you can set the assignment out as a standard piece of writing - describe/evaluate one approach, describe evaluate second approach, describe evaluate third approach, finish off with perhaps a paragraph that brings it all together.
You can actually find all that you need to achieve a pass in the Focus book and the handout for DSM IV. About 750 - 1000 words if you feel you need a ball-park figure. Remember that an opinion expressed in a text book is perfectly OK as a reference of supporting or contradicting evidence for an approach.
But you can in fact find much more outside the Focus book. For example, if you choose to discuss classification methods, then you should include discussion on Rosenhahn (1973) "On being sane in insane places".
The picture is of Bedlam, a famous picture from Rakes Progress. It is not a picture of room M41 on a bad day.
On 13th May you have a short exam. The subject is stress, and anything in your Focus book between pages 91 and 136 is fair game. Try and de-stress like the girl in the picture. Have a great weekend!
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