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Assignment is based on your prescribed book, chapter 2 and Chapter 3:

Burke, A. (Ed.). (2014). Abnormal Psychology: A South African Perspective (2nd ed.Revised). Cape Town, South Africa: Oxford University Press Southern Africa.

In order to do this assignment you are required to familiarise yourself with a different view on mental health, mental wellness and abnormal psychology. Study the entire Chapter 3: Abnormal Psychology from a Mental Wellness Perspective and answer the following 10 questions.

In order to do this assignment you are required to familiarise yourself with alternative worldviews to western aetiology models, in addition to a different view on mental health, mental wellness and abnormal psychology. Study pages 68-75 of Chapter 2: Western and African Aetiological Models, and the entire Chapter 3: Abnormal Psychology from a Mental Wellness Perspective and answer the following 10 questions.

1. According to African Personality Theory:

(a) A person exists because of other people.
(b) There is a powerful being that supersedes all of us.
(c) Ancestors play a crucial role in people's lives by communicating with
God on behalf of the living.
(d) The ‘spirit principle' represents a soul that dies once outside the
existence of the body.

Choose the correct answer:

1. (a), and (c)
2. (a), (b) and (d)
3. (a), (c), and (d)
4. (b), (c) and (d)

2. Which one of the following statements relating to the diathesis-stress model is inaccurate?

(1) The model suggests that some people inherit or develop biological predispositions to psychopathology.
(2) People who inherit or develop biological predispositions are destined to develop psychopathology within the course of their lifespan to varying degrees.
(3) According to the model, interaction between the diathesis and a stressor causes a disorder to develop.
(4) Neurophysiological vulnerability to producing unhealthy levels of stress hormones when experiencing stress is an example of diathesis.

3. Positive Clinical Psychology proposes a new approach to abnormal psychology which should:

a) Be more integrated and reject illness ideology.
b) Predict disorders in alignment with the presence of negative characteristics.
c) Foster positive characteristics to treat clinical disorders.
d) Promote resilience in non-clinical populations.

Choose the correct answer:
1) (a), (b) and (c)
2) (a), (b) and (d)
3) (a), (c) and (d)
4) (b), (c) and (d)

4. Which one of the following statements is inaccurate?

(1) The community psychology perspective highlights the importance of considering broad social factors in fully understanding the development of psychological problems.
(2) The cognitive-behavioural perspective formulates that mental disorders are a consequence of biases in thinking and perceptions.
(3) The existential perspective emphasises individuality and the existence of freedom for self-direction and self-fulfilment.
(4) The humanistic approach indicates that the socio-political context of an individual may be alienating and dehumanising.

5. Positive psychology argues...
(a) for symptom reduction in mental illness as only one component in treatment.
(b) that treatment is to promote levels of well-being or build upon a person's
existing strengths.
(c) that the medical approach be rejected altogether.
(d) that ill-being and well-being are understood as a continuum of experience rather than distinct categories.

Choose the correct answer:

1) (a), (b), and (c)
2) (a), (b) and (d)
3) (a), (c) and (d)
4) (b), (c) and (d)

6. Which one of the following statements is inaccurate?

(1) Strategies such as acceptance, humour, and positive framing maybe considered as resources to protect against the development of psychopathology.
(2) People with high emotional intelligence are considered to be happier and more successful in their lives.
(3) Whilst there may be differences in the types of coping strategies that different individuals may utilise, these coping strategies are universally consistent across different ethnicities, cultures and gender.
(4) Maladaptive behaviours may be linked to a failure to self-regulate while effective self-regulation fosters health-promoting behaviours, positive psychological well-being and high job performance.

7. According to indigenous African aetiological explanations, Letswalo (Sesotho) or uvalo (isiZulu) can be described as: -

(1) Anxiety attributed to witchcraft or sorcery.
(2) Growth or pain in the stomach due to sorcery/witchcraft.
(3) The calling by the ancestors to become a traditional healer.
(4) Spirit possession as a result of witchcraft or sorcery.

8. Which one of the following statements is inaccurate?

(1) The dopamine hypothesis of Schizophrenia suggests that an excess of dopamine activity in the brain may be a contributory factor to the development of schizophrenia.
(2) Depression is often associated with too much of serotonin in the brain.
(3) The dysregulation of hormones is symptomatic of certain mental disorders.
(a) Structural abnormalities in the brain may contribute to various pathologies.

9. According to Burke et al. (2012), ethnocentrism...

a) refers to judging other people from within one's own cultural perspective.
b) encourages cultural diversity and sensitivity.
c) is an important challenge in understanding the role of culture, ethnicity and race in the socio-political and economic development of diverse ethnic and cultural populations?
d) is problematic when one views one's own culture as superior to other
cultures.

Choose the correct answer:

1) 1, 2, 3
2) 1, 2 and 4
3) 1, 3 and 4
4) 2, 3 and 4

10. According to Westerhof and Keyes's (2010) . . .

(a) mental health is viewed along a mental health continuum as a complete state consisting of the presence and/or absence of mental illness and mental health symptoms.
(b) mental health is described along a two-continuum model where one continuum indicates the presence or absence of mental health, and the other shows the presence or absence of mental illness.
(c) the four levels of well-being identified along the mental health continuum are flourishing, anguishing, lamenting and floundering.

(d) the four levels of well-being identified along the mental health continuum are flourishing, languishing, struggling and floundering.

Choose the correct alternative:
(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (b) and (d)