Ch 1 Flashcards
Psychological symptoms or behavioral patterns that reflect an underlying cycle biological dysfunction, or associated with the stress or disability, and are not merely an expectable response to comments stressors or a losses
Mental disorder
A mental health condition that negatively affects a person’s emotions, thinking, behavior, relationships with others, or overall functioning
Mental illness
The scientific study who is objectives are to describe, explain, predict, and modified behaviors associated with mental disorders
Abnormal psychology
The study of the symptoms, causes, and treatment of mental disorders
Psychopathology
Healthcare practitioners (such as psychologist, psychiatrist, and social workers) Who’s services focused on improving mental health or treating mental illness
Mental health professional
And assessment and description of an individual’s psychological symptoms, including inferences about what might be causing the psychological distress
Psychodiagnosis
A proposed course of therapy, developed collaboratively I am therapist and client, that addresses the clients most distressing mental health symptoms
Treatment plan
Cause or causes for a condition
Etiology
A program of systematic intervention with the purpose of improving her clients behavioral, emotional, or cognitive symptoms
Psychotherapy
– must hold a PhD or PsyD
-training includes coursework in psychopathology, personality, diagnosis, psychological testing, psychotherapy, and human physiology
Clinical psychologist
– Academic an internship requirements are similar to those for clinical psychologist, but with a focus on life adjustment problems rather than mental illness
Counseling psychologist
– Training usually include a masters degree in counseling or psychology and many hours of supervised clinical experience
Mental health counselor; marriage/family therapist
– Hold a M.D. Degree; can prescribe medication
– Completes the four years of medical school required for a M.D. , And an additional three or four years of training in psychiatry
Psychiatrist
– Holds a masters degree from a social work graduate program
– Specializes in assessment, screening, and therapy with high need clients and out reach to other agencies
Psychiatric social worker
– Professional training requirements vary; many practitioners have personal experience with addiction
– Works in agencies that specialize in the evaluation and treatment of drug and alcohol addiction
Substance abuse counselor
The DSM indicates that a mental disorder has the following components:
(A) involves a significant disturbance in thinking, emotional regulation, or behavior caused by a dysfunction in the basic psychological, biological, or developmental processes involved in normal development;
(B) Causes significant distress or difficulty with day-to-day functioning; and
(C) is not merely a culturally expected response to common stressors or losses or a reflection of political or religious believes that conflict with societal norms
The percentage of individuals in a targeted population who have a particular disorder during a specific period of time
Prevalence
The percentage of people in the population if you have had a disorder at some point in their life
Lifetime prevalence
And oversimplified, often inaccurate, image or idea about a group of people
Stereotype
A negative societal believe about a group, including the view that the group is that somehow different from other members of society
Social stigma
An unfair, preconceived judgments about a person or group based on supposed characteristics
Prejudice
Unjust or prejudicial treatment towards a person based on the persons actual or perceived membership in a certain group
Discrimination
Acceptance of prejudice and discrimination based on the internalize negative so societal believes or stereotypes
Self stigma
A belief in one’s ability to succeed in a specific situation
Self efficiency
A surgical method from the stone age in which part of the skull was chipped away to provide an opening through which an evil spirit could escape
Trephining
A practice used to cast evil spirits out of an afflicted person’s body
Exorcism
An outdated term referring to excessive or uncontrollable emotion, sometimes resulting in somatic symptoms (such as blindness or paralysis) that have no apparent physical cause
Hysteria
A form of mass hysteria prevalent during the middle ages, characterized by wild rating, jumping, dancing, and composing
Tarantism
A philosophical movement that emphasizes human welfare and the worth and uniqueness of the individual
Humanism
Crusade to institute more humane treatment of people with mental illness
Moral treatment movement
Certain symptoms that tend to occur regularly in clusters
Syndrome
Psychological processes occurring within the mind
Intrapsychic
A branch of psychology that focuses on culture, race, ethnicity, gender, age, socioeconomic class, and other similar factors in its effort to understand behavior
Multicultural psychology
The philosophical and scientific study of positive human functioning and the strengths and assets of individuals, families, and communities
Positive psychology
Believe in an animating life force energy beyond what we can perceive with our senses
Spirituality
The philosophy that with appropriate treatment and support those with mental illness can improve and live satisfying lives even with any limitations caused by their illness
Recovery movement
Drugs used to treat or manage psychiatric symptoms by influencing the brain activity associated with emotions and behavior
Psychotropic medication
The industrialization of healthcare, whereby large organizations in the private sector control the delivery of services
Managed healthcare
