Week 2 journal entry abnormal psychology

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Week 2 - Journal

Responding to Bias and Prejudice Toward Psychopathology

In last week’s journal, you honestly reflected on your thoughts regarding abnormal psychology. Through that reflection, you may have recognized that you have some biases or prejudices toward specific groups of people. Recognizing any possible biases and prejudices is an essential step toward becoming a scholar of psychology. Taking reasonable steps toward resolving those biases and prejudices is a significant opportunity for personal growth and professional development.

This 250- to 500-word journal entry is an opportunity for you to describe ways that you might go about resolving any biases and prejudices within yourself. Alternatively, you may want to write about how you will respond to bias and prejudice you might encounter in your everyday life.

For instance, what kinds of education or experiences might help you address bias and prejudice within yourself? How might you respond to a person who thinks that people with mental health conditions should be locked away in institutions and never allowed to rejoin society? What kind of education might you provide to a person who believes that Autism is due to poor parenting? What resources might you draw from to support healthy, accurate, and research-supported views regarding psychopathology? What available resources might you point people to who need more information on specific issues? If you have any favorite websites or web resources, we encourage you to share them in the Ashford Cafe.

Consider any other questions that came up for you over the course of this week’s activities. You may share as much or as little as you wish, as long as it is evident in your journal that you have taken the time to reflect.

Please note that this journal does not require you to share personal information about your mental health or the mental health of people you know. Psychology instructors cannot ask students to divulge this kind of information for grading (see Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct Standards 7.04).

Your journal will be graded based on whether or not you provided a substantial and thoughtful entry.

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Based on the last week discussion, I realized that I have to establish certain ways to avoid any
biased of prejudice against people with various disability in the society. First, I realized that it is
important to determine the type of business that could be administered to such people to develop
a better way of avoiding them. One type of biasness within me was trying to convince myself
that children who are born with a certain type of conditions such as autism were unlucky and
they should learn to cope up with such conditions. One way of avoiding such type of prejudice
was to understand some of the factors that can lead to children developing autism (Silverman
45). I realized that it was not their fault for them to be born with such type of conditions. In that
light, the best way of understanding their needs to try and help the society understand them
better. By helping other people to have a clear picture of the issues that such people undergo, it
will help me avoid any biasness towards them as I will have to act as good role model for others
to emulate.
One of the ways that I would respond to people who believe that others with a certain type of
conditions should be locked away is to explain to them how such type of condition occurs. As
such, it will make them aware that it is not the fault of the patient to have such conditions (Davis
12). Such measures will ensure that they respect others people better irrespective of their
conditions. It is also important to educate the society more on the behavior of people with these
types of conditions such as autism so that the society would be able to relate to them better. It is

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important to note that people with such type of condition also needs to be shown love like other
normal people.

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