Summarize Current Efforts to Classify Abnormal Behavior, Explaining What System

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Essay

Summarize current efforts to classify abnormal behavior, explaining what system is used and how it works.

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Definitions:

Central Traits

Personality traits that form a foundation for an individual's personality and are considered essential for understanding one's character.

Humanistic Psychologists

Psychologists who focus on an individual's potential for growth and emphasize personal freedom, self-awareness, and self-fulfillment.

Abraham Maslow

An American psychologist known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory in psychology proposed to explain human motivation.

Carl Rogers

An influential American psychologist who founded the humanistic approach to psychology, emphasizing the importance of the self and the actualizing tendency.