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Chap 1 Flashcards

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Impairment

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When a person‘s behaviour limits their ability to function in expected rolls (self-care social health occupational)

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Syndrome

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Clusters of symptoms that are characteristic of particular disorders

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Diathesis-stress theory

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Model of abnormal behaviour that claims that mental disorders are caused by the interaction of biological and environmental influences

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Theoretical perspective

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Points of you used for explaining people’s behaviour and thinking whether normal or abnormal

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Biopsychosocial model

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A model that believes that mental disorders are caused by complex interactions among biological psychological and social cultural factors

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Diagnostic criteria

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All the conditions that need to be met for an individual to receive a diagnosis

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Diathesis

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A predisposition or vulnerability

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Self-monitoring

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The process of recording or observing one’s own behaviour thoughts or emotions

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Deinstitutionalization

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Practice of discharging large numbers of hospitalized for mental patients to the community

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To commit

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Placing an individual in a psychiatric institution against their will

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Involuntary patient

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A patient who is being legally held in psychiatrically hospital against their will

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Voluntary patient

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A patient who has agreed to being committed to a psychiatric hospital

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Patient is incompetent

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An individual who does not have the cognitive ability to make an informed decision

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Least restrictive setting

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Involves not hospitalizing a patient when he or she can be treated in the community

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Confidentiality

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The principle of safeguarding information so that it remains a secret and is not disclose to others

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Unfit to stand trial

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An individual who is not able to participate in the legal proceedings because they do not understand the charges against them

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Not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder

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Form of legal defence in which the person is not held accountable for his or her crime

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Conditional discharge

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Releasing an individual with specific conditions

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Absolute discharge

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Releasing an individual without any conditions

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The most widely used means of assessment is

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Clinical interview

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MMPI is a test?

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Personality

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What is the test where a patient has to describe a series of ambiguous looking inkblots

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Projective

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What are projective test based on

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Psychodynamic

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What is an example of a projective test

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The TAT

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The hallmark technique of behavioural assessment is

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Direct observation

26
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And self-monitoring a period of time preceding the implementation of a treatment is called

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Baseline

27
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Which scans showed abnormalities in the shape or structure of various parts of the brain

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CT scan

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What is considered as an abnormal behaviour pattern by the DSM system

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Experiencing emotional distress engaging in behaviour that is statistically deviant
experiencing impaired functioning

29
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What is not true of the DSM system

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They assume that I’m normal behaviours result from biological causes

30
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The DCM five classifies of normal behaviour patterns according to the development models to allow for relevant ____ information to be included in decisions regarding clinical diagnosis

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Clinical syndromes

31
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People who are placed in psychiatric institution is because they show a normal behaviours and are deemed to be a threat to themselves or others are committed through a process of

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Civil

32
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Psychiatric commitment is the same as

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Civil

33
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Somebody who is placed in a psychiatric institution because they acquitted of a crime by reason of insanity

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Legal

34
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People must be judged __ to be psychiatrically committed

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Mentally ill and dangerous

35
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Mental health professionals tend to

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Over predict

36
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Do US case that established the legal basis for a therapist duty to warn was the

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Tarasoff case

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What is the Tarasoff case

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Principles of confidentiality

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What is the criteria of abnormal behaviour

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The behaviour is dangerous the behaviour is unusual

39
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The study of heritable and acquire changes in genes regulation is known

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Epigenetic

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All the genetic material for an organism is called

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Genome

41
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The part of the nucleus that receives messages from other neurons

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Dendrite

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A transmitting neuron is called

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Synaptic

43
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The process of neurotransmitters being reabsorbed by the axon terminal

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Reuptake

44
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According to Freud the largest part of the mind is

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unconscious

45
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According to Freud the psych big structure that follows the pleasure principle

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Id

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The behavioural perspective sees abnormal behaviour as

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Learned in much the same way as a normal behaviour

47
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Anexample of conditioned stimulus

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When a scientist rings a bell just prior to presenting meat to the dog in his laboratory. after several pairings the dog begin salivating when the bell is rung even when no meat is presented

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Negative reinforcers

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Stimuli that increases the frequency of a behaviour when removed

49
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Food water and sexual stimulation are examples of

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Primary reinforcers

50
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What approach did Ellis use

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ABC approach

51
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Therapist who use multiple models to explain and treat abnormal behaviour are using

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Factor analysis

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The psychological model that argues that I’m normal behaviours come from a combination of genetically inherited vulnerabilities and various life stressors is

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Diathesis stress

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What does diathesis mean

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vulnerability

54
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Why was the diathesis stress model created

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For schizophrenia

55
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What decrease his bad behaviour

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Punishment

56
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Classical conditioning

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Developing a fear of cars after being in a traffic accident

57
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Example your phobia of spiders came about because your mother would jump on a chair every time she would see a spider

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Observable learning

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And example you are not depressed because of bad events you are depressed because you have the irrational believe that any bad event is a catastrophic that is totally unfair and inhumane

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The cognitive perspective

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Ego

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Reality principle

60
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Superego

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Moral principle

61
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Cognitive perspective

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distorted thinking

62
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Socio-cultural perspective

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Gender issues social affects and global effects

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