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Dysfunction

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Interferes with daily function

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Deviance

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Variance from common patterns of behavior

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Danger

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Most people with mental illness do not pose a danger to themselves or others

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Elusive nature of abnormality

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Criteria for abnormality can be vague and subjective

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Eccentricity example

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Man who lives alone with two dozen cats

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Treatment

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Procedure designed to change abnormal behavior into more normal behavior

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General paresis

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Irreversible disorder with both physical and mental symptoms

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Hypnotism

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Procedure that places people in a trance like mental state during which they become extremely suggestible

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Psychoanalysis

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Freudian theory which holds that many forms of abnormal and normal psychological functioning are psychogenic; unconsciousness is at the root of the dis functioning

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Psychotropic medication

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Drugs that primarily affect the brain and reduce many symptoms of mental dysfunctioning

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Deinstitutionalization

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The discharge of large number of patients beginning in 60s from long term institutional care so they may be treated in community programs

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Community health approach

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Helpful for many but too few programs are available to address needs in US

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Private psychotherapy

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An agreement by which an individual directly pays a psychotherapist for counseling services; insurance now often covers the costs

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Prevention

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Key feature of comm health programs that seek to prevent or minimize psych disorders

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Positive psychology
Definition
Major ideas

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Study and enhancement of positive feelings and traits and abilities. The idea is to promote positive development and psych wellness and coping skills are taught that protect from stress

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Multicultural psychology

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Examines impact of culture race and ethnicity on our behaviors and thoughts and focuses on how they influence abnormal behavior

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Managed care

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A program in which the insurance company determines such key issues as which therapists it’s clients may choose, the cost of sessions, and the number of sessions for which a client may be reimbursed

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Psychiatrists

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Prescribe medication and complete residency after med school

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Clinical psychologists

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PhD in psych and one year internship

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Clinical researchers

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Conduct studies on abnormal psych functioning

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Humors

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Fluids that flow through body

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How did Hippocrates treat?

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Quiet life
Vegetables
Temperance and exercise

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Middle Ages treatment methods

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Demonology

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Rise of asylums occurred when?

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Renaissance

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First physician to specialize in mental illness

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Johann weyer

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Somatogenic perspective

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View that abnormal psychological functioning has physical causes

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Psychogenic perspective

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View that cause of abnormal functioning are psychological

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Results of biological approaches throughout first half of twentieth century

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Mostly disappointing

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What did Hippocrates teach?

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Mental illness had natural causes that arose from internal physical problems

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Did mesmerism work?

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Surprisingly yes on many patients

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What made hypnotism special?

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Hysterical disorders could be induced in normal people

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Technique of psychoanalysis

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A form of discussion in which clinicians help troubled people gain insight into their unconscious psychological processes

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Psychoanalysis was used mostly on whom?

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Patients with anxiety or depression that didn’t require hospitalization

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Anti psychotic drugs

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Correct extremely confused and distorted thinking

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Antidepressant drugs

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Lift moods of depressed people

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_______ % of all privately ensured persons in the US are currently enrolled in managed care programs.

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At least 75%

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Is the managed care program liked or disliked in general?

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Disliked by both parties

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How did mesmer’s treatments work? What was it called?

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Patients sit in a darkened room with music, then he appeared in colorful costume and touched the troubled area of the patients body
Called mesmerism

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Mysterious bodily ailments with no apparent physical basis

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Hysterical disorders

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Hypnotism dates back when?

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1778 when Mesmer established a clinic

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Eccentricity

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Unusual pattern with which others have no right to interfere; not necessarily abnormal behavior

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Trephination

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Stone Age treatment in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a part of the skull in severely abnormal patients

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Melancholia

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Extreme sadness and immobility

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Earlier societies attributed abnormal behavior to _______.

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Demons

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Father of modern medicine

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Hippocrates

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Nomethic understanding

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General understanding of the nature causes and treatment of abnormal psychological functioning in the form of laws or principles

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Internal validity

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The accuracy with which a study can pinpoint one of various possible factors as the cause of phenomenon

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External validity

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The extent to which the results may be generalized to the outside world beyond that study

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Correlation coefficient

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r- magnitude of the correlation

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Incidence- epidemiological studies

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Number of new cases that emerge during a given period of time

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Prevalence of epidemiological studies

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Total number of cases in the population during a given time period but also includes existing cases

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Quasi experiment

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Making use of groups that already exist in the world

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Natural experiment

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Nature manipulated the IV itself and experimenter observes the effects

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Analogue experiment

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Abnormal behavior is produced in the lab and then examined

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Disadvantages of case studies

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Biased observers
Subjective evidence
Low external validity

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Single subject experiment

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One person is observed and measured before and after IV manipulation

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