Chapter 1 Flashcards
Mental disorder
-a group of emotional, cognitive, and behaivoral symptoms that cause distress or significant problems
Abnormal psychology
The scientific study of problematic feelings, thoughts, and behaivors, associated with mental disorders
Maladaptive behaivor
One that interferes with a person’s life , including ability to care for oneself, have good relationships with others, and function well at school and work
Psychopathologists
Study mental problems, to see how disorders develop and continue and how they can be prevented or treated
Mass madness
Groups of individuals would be afflicted at the same time with the same disorder or abnormal behaivors
Asylums
Places set aside for people with mental disorders
Mental hygiene
A movement that resulted from Beer’s book, a mind that found itself, which was basically a mental health reform movement in the United States
Public health model
Focuses on promoting good health and good health practices to avert disease.
Primary prevention
Targeting large groups f people,sometimes the entire public, who have not yet developed a mental disorder.
Secondary prevention
Addressing emerging problems while they are still manageable and before they become resistant to intervention
Tertiary prevention
Reducing the severity, duration and negative effects of a mental disorder after it has occured
Stigma
-characterization by others of disgrace or reproach based on individual characteristics
Renaissance
- focused on bodily functioning and medical treatments
- asylums instituted
Somatagenic perspective
Emphasizing physical bodily causes of behaivor
Early Greek and Roman thought on mental disorders
- direct result of brain disorders+ dysfunctions
- special diets, rest, abstinence from alcohol, regular exercise and celibacy used to treat them
- created therapeutic environments with these aspects
Implications of dimensional perspective
- research on emotions, thoughts, and behaivors, is relevant to all of us
- people differ only in their degree of symptoms
Prevention perspective
Promoting mental health and thwarting mental disorder through education, ear;y treatment, and public health measures
Prevention perspective
Promoting mental health and thwarting mental disorder through education, ear;y treatment, and public health measures
Consumer perspective
Becoming informed consumer of scientific information on mental health
Consumer perspective
Becoming informed consumer of scientific information on mental health
Multicultural psychology
Refers to examining the effect of culture on the way people think, feel, and act.
Multicultural psychology
Refers to examining the effect of culture on the way people think, feel, and act.
Structural stigma
When gov, or other institutional policies negatively affects opertunities for people who may be seen as threatening, dangerous, or less deserving of support
Public stigma
The general disgrace the public confers on people with mental disorder that can result in predujdice, stereotyping, and discrimination
Self-stigma
Refers to the disgrace people assign themselves because of public stigma
Self-stigma
Refers to the disgrace people assign themselves because of public stigma
2 ways stigma can be fought
- Education
2. Promoting personal contact
