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14 - Psychological Disorders Flashcards

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1
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How many people have psychological disorders?

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1 in 4

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_____ _____ views abnormal behavior as a disease.

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Medical model

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To be diagnosed with abnormal behavior how many criteria needs to be met?

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Only one criteria needs to be met.

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4
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Abnormal Behavior diagnoses involves _____ _____.

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value judgments

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3 Criteria of Abnormal behavior

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1) Deviance
2) Personal Distress
3) Maladaptive Behavior

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Deviance

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Does it violate or deviate from social norms?

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Personal Distress

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person must report distress and suffering

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Maladaptive Behavior

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anything that significantly impairs every day functioning

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Axis I (classification)

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Clinical Syndromes

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Axis II (classification)

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Personality Disorders or Intellectual Disability

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Axis III (classification)

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General Medical Conditions

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Axis IV (classification)

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Psychosocial & Environmental Problems

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Axis V (classification)

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Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale

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Anxiety Disorders

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Feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety (negative mood state)

Is it normal or abnormal?

  • Level
  • Justification
  • Consequences
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15
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What disorder is this?

No specific Threat

“Free-floating anxiety”

Experience physical symptoms, difficulties with sleeping or concentrating

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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What disorder is this?

Recurring attacks of overwhelming anxiety

Develops agoraphobia (fear of places or situation that may cause panic)

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Panic Disorder

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17
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What disorder is this?

irrational fear of specific object or situation

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Specific Phobia

must substantially interfere with daily ability to function

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Blood
Situational
Heights
Animal
Other
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5 main categories of phobias

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What disorder is this?

Extreme fear and anxiety associated with social situations that causes avoidance and great distress.

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Social Anxiety Disorder

7 % of population
requires treatment
progress can be made

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20
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What disorder is this?

Experience with major traumatic event

Most common traumas include combat and sexual assault

Experiences flashbacks

Sensitive to internal and external cues

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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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Obsessions = unwanted thoughts

Compulsions = senseless rituals that are repetitive or excessive

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List of Common Compulsions:

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Checking
Washing
Need to ask or confess
Symmetry and precision
Counting
Hoarding
Multiple
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23
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Contributing factors in Anxiety Disorders

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Biological factors - abnormalities in neurotransmitters

Conditioning and learning

Cognitive factors - thinking styles

Stress

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disorders that are psychological in origin with physical symptoms are called ______

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somatoform disorders

25
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Somatic symptom disorder

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diverse physical complaints

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Conversion Disorder

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  • Significant loss of physical function in single organ system
  • “Craft palsies” - symptoms related to activity or occupation
27
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Hypochondriasis

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Excessive worrying about health

Associating physical symptoms with serious illness

28
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(Contributor to somatoform disorders)

Cognitive factors

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excessive focus on physiological processes

29
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(Contributor to somatoform disorders)

Personality factors

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higher on neuroticism trait

30
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(Contributor to somatoform disorders)

The sick role

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People using “sickness” as an excuse to avoid things

OR to get attention

31
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3 Contributors to somatoform disorders

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1) Cognitive factors
2) Personality factors
3) The sick role

32
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Dissociative amnesia

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Sudden loss of memory

  • single event or period of time
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Dissociative fugue

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Loss of memory for entire lives

34
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Dissociative identity disorder

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Multiple personalities

co-existence of 2 or more completely different personalities

35
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Emotional disturbances that are episodic

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Mood Disorders

36
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major depressive disorder

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profound sadness

feeling empty, hopeless
trouble sleeping
increased appetite/weight gain

more common for women

37
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Bipolar disorder

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  • manic episodes and depression
  • Age of onset is late teens or early adulthood

equal b/w men and women

38
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Contributing factors of Mood Disorders

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Genetic vulnerability
Neurochemical factors
Cognitive factors
Interpersonal factors
Precipitating stress
39
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T or F?

Schizophrenia disorders are the most popular type of disorder

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False

Only about 2% of population

40
Q

T or F?

Schizophrenia is a young person’s disorder

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True

41
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T or F?

Rate of recovery for Schizophrenia depends on quality of care and treatment

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True

42
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General symptoms of ________

Delusions and irrational thought
Deterioration of adaptive behavior
Distorted perception
Disturbed emotion

A

Schizophrenia

43
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Schizophrenia means _____

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“split mind”

not to be confused with dissociative disorders

44
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Four subtypes of Schizophrenia

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  1. Paranoid type (dominated by delusions of persecution or granjour)
  2. Catatonic type (very rigid to very random motor activity)
  3. Disorganized type (incoherent, emotionally indifferent, centered on bodily processes)
  4. Undifferentiated type ( can’t be put into aforementioned categories - mixture of other categories)
45
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Subtype of schizophrenia dominated by delusions of persecution or grandeur

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Paranoid type

46
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Subtype of schizophrenia very rigid to very random motor activity

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Catatonic type

47
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Subtype of schizophrenia incoherent, emotionally indifferent, centered on bodily processes)

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Disorganized type

48
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Subtype of schizophrenia that can’t be put into aforementioned categories - mixture of other categories

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Undifferentiated type

49
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T or F?

Schizophrenia is driven by more than 100 genes

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True

108 genes that regulate dopamine

50
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Biological Factors of Schizophrenia

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Enlarged:

Right ventricle
Left ventricle
3rd and 4th ventricle

51
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Review prenatal biological factors slide

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Okay… done :-)

52
Q

T or F?

Viral infections increase vulnerability to schizophrenia

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True

53
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Environmental Factors of Schizophrenia

Parental communication deviance —->

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Poor sense of reality —–> Withdrawal into personal world —–> Schizophrenic thinking

54
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Environmental Factors of Schizophrenia (def on test)

highly critical or emotionally involved attitudes in patient’s family predicts course of illness

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Expressed Emotion

55
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Environmental Factors of Schizophrenia (def on test)

highly critical or emotionally involved attitudes in patient’s family predicts course of illness

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Expressed Emotion

56
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Stress Vulnerability Models

Review slide

A

Got it!

57
Q

T or F?

Intersection of high stress and high vulnerability lead to onset of schizophrenic disorder

A

True

58
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Relativistic view

A

Mental illness varies greatly across cultures

59
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Universalistic or pancultural view

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Mental illness is the same around the world

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