Talk:Outline of abnormal psychology

Brief explanation of Wikipedia outlines
Outlines are a type of list article. Each outline is about the subject identified after "Outline of" in the title. "Outline" refers to the format of the article...

"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). In Wikipedia outlines, the hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets.

Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure). They also serve as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. See Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 17:20, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Needed Edits
This page has a good foundation, including its lead, but needs a lot of work in the main body. With so many different theories, there is a lot more that could be written about this topic (such as different perspectives, different kinds of abnormal behaviors, and their different forms of treatments, each of which should give plenty to research and write about). I'll go ahead and add a sentence about the varying perspectives into the lead paragraph. --Turtlemartian13 (talk) 01:33, 5 May 2021 (UTC)