A study conducted in the US and published in BMCPsychiatry discusses the issues surrounding how laypeople conceptualize mental disorder. It highlights significant points of disagreement between professional and public understandings of the disorder.
= .025, suggesting that compared to other labels, “psychological issue” encompassed some conditions that were perceived as relatively low in harm and rarity.This study adds significantly to our understanding of the American public’s concepts of mental disorder.
These findings have implications for theory, research, and practice. How mental health conditions as a group should be labelled has been an ongoing source of debate, some may prefer “mental illness” or “mental disorder”, whereas others favour alternatives such as “mental health problem”. Our findings suggest that these concerns may be overblown because the three terms identified effectively identical sets of conditions and were grounded in the same feature judgments.
Most notably, judgments of rarity were potent predictors of disorder judgments, despite concerns that statistical abnormality should not be implicated in the mental disorder concept. Wakefield [] inclusion of statistical unexpectability as part of the definition of disorder.
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