Chapter 1 Flashcards
exam 1
The study of psychological disorders
Psychopathology
4 Requirements of abnormal behavior
- Maladaptive
- Deviation from cultural norms
- Distress/impairment
- Statistical infrequency
Mental health professionals who are expected to apply scientific methods to their work. (KEEP UPDATED IN RESEARCH)
Scientist-practitioner approach
- may keep up with the latest scientific developments in their field and therefore use the most current diagnostic and treatment procedures.
- evaluate their own assessments or treatment procedures to see whether they work.
- conduct research, often in clinics or hospitals, that produces new information about disorders or their treatment
These are all things for what type of studying?
Scientist practitioner approach
How many people in the population as a whole have this disorder?
Prevalence
Stats on how many new cases occur during a given period
Incident
The pattern a disorder follows can be chronic, time-limited, or episodic
Course
Predicted future development of a disorder over time
Prognosis
a psychological dysfunction within an individual associated with distress or impairment in functioning and a response that is not typical or culturally expected.
Psychological disorders
agents—which might be divinities, demons, spirits, or other phenomena such as magnetic fields or the moon or the stars—are the driving forces of what model?
Supernatural Model
Hippocrates: a disease, syphilis; and the early consequences of believing that psychological disorders are biologically caused.
Biological Tradition
Who believed that “psychological disorders could be treated like any other disease”
Hippocrates
Who later adopted the ideas of Hippocrates and his associates and developed them further
Galen
Psychosocial approach in the 19th century that involved treating patients as normally as possible in normal environments
Moral Therapy
Two reasons of decline of moral therapy
- Worked best with low patient numbers
- Unlikely source
