How Is Abnormal Psychology Defined

Abnormal Psychology
Abnormal behaviour is defined as behaviour that is considered to be maladaptive or deviant by the social culture in which it occurs. Though disagreement exists regarding which particular behaviour can be classified as abnormal psychologists have defined several criteria for purposes of classification.
Literally, the word 'abnormal' means 'away from the norm' hence, abnormal behaviour is behaviour which departs from the norm. In turn norms can be defined in different ways. One is that the behaviour occurs infrequently (statistical infrequent behaviour). Another is that b…