ABNORMAL: STUDIES - NAME/EXPLANATION

Question 1

Rosenhahn

Answer 1

Reliability and validity: 8 participants entered 12 psychiatric hospitals reporting to be hearing voices. Results: all were admitted and diagnosed. When inside, they behaved regularly. They got out from 7 to 50 days. All left with a recovery label. A follow telling to find an impostor: 20 of of 200 were suspected, but none were.

Question 2

Cooper et al

Answer 2

Reliability: British and American psychiatrists asked to diagnose through watching videotapes: British diagnosed depression twice as often, American schizophrenia twice as often.

Question 3

Kleinman

Answer 3

Cultural diagnosis: in China, people diagnosed with a certain Chinese mental illness were studied. It was found out 90% of them could be diagnosed with depression.

Question 4

Jenkins et al 1991

Answer 4

Ethical ethnicity: white psychologists were presented videos of people in therapy and asked to diagnose them. Results show a black person was more likely to be diagnosed as depressed.

Question 5

Brown and Harris

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Depression sloa: interviews of women about particular life events and coping. Results show out of the women who were depressed in the last year 90% had gone through a major life event or difficulty. Also poverty, children and unemployement had an effect.

Question 6

Kendler et al

Answer 6

Bulimia twins: interviews of over 2K twins of which the other had bulimia on whether they were likely to develop it. MZ twins had a concordance rate of 25% while DZ twins 10%.

Question 7

Levine et al

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Bulimia social: 10-14 yo children answered questions on importance of being thin, magazine attitudes, own satisfaction. Results showed all answered that the media and family encouraged slimness.

Question 8

Neale et al 2011

Answer 8

SSRI: patients 1 depressants switch to placebo 2 only placebo 3 only depressants. Results show 25% relapse of placebo, 45% depressants and then off. Argue, that SSRI interferes with self regulation

Question 9

Kuyken et al 2008

Answer 9

MBCT: participants who received medication: 1 only medication 2 medication and MBCT. Relapse rate of 60% to 45% and MBCT group reported higher rates

Question 10

Elkin et al 1989

Answer 10

Individual therapy: 280 patients randomly assigned to four different groups: 1 meds + clinic 2 placebo + clinic 3 cbt 4 ipt treatment. 16 weeks. 50% recovered in therapy and drugs, but only 30% in placebo.