Normality and Pathology

Question 1

What is considered Normal?

Answer 1

What is considered normal verses what is considered a pathology depends on your perspective. There is no objective normality or pathology. They are social construction that can differ based on culture. For example, for a disabled person, a wheelchair is a normal, but an able-bodied person, it is seen as a pathology.

Norm are rules /expectations that gover how one should behave.

Question 2

Strengths Perspective?

Answer 2

Social worker concept of focusing on strengths as a basis for empowerment.

1. Every individual, group, family or community has strength.
2. Trauma abuse, illness and struggle can be injurious but can also lead to opportunity.
3. You do not know the upper limit to growth and take others’s aspirations seriously.
4. Every Environment is full of resources.