Chapter 1 - Historical And Modern Perspectives Flashcards

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Behaving dysfunctionally

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Behaviour interferes with routines, causes significant distress

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Abnormal behaviour is:

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Inconsistent with societal, cultural, and developmental norms.
Interferes with daily functioning.
Causes emotional distress.

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Vincent Li

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2001 began symptoms
July 2008 fired Walmart
July 30, 2008 on Greyhound obeyed auditory hallucinations to do harm - murder
Found not criminally responsible due to schizophrenia
When treated, felt remorse

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Categorical approach to abnormal behaviour

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Do you meet diagnostic criteria?

Downside: symptoms are unique, how much symptom is enough for diagnosis?

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Dimensional approach to abnormal behaviour

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Behaviour is constantly changing

Can be placed on continuum, quantitative criteria vs all or nothing way of thinking

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Who is most at risk for mental illness?

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Poor, low education

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By 16, what percent children had disorder

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36%

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Factors to consider when addressing abnormal behaviour

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Sex, ethnicity, SES, age (chronological vs developmental maturity), education, bio changes (puberty)

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Developmental trajectory

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Symptoms vary by age

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Downward drift

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Impairment as a result of psych disorder

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Boys vs girls rate of psych as age

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Rate decreases as boys enter teens, rate increases as girls enter adolescence

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12
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Trephination

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Create hole in skull to release evil spirits (Egypt)

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Hippocrates 460-377 BC father of medicine

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First to identify hallucinations, delusions, melancholia, hysteria (random blindness), mania.
Most often associated with schizophrenia, somatoform disorders, mood disorders.

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Hippocrates what contribute to psych

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Environment, physical, four humours. Yellow bile, black bile, blood, phlegm.
Remove patients from family.

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Galen contribution

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Discounted wandering womb. Had psychological cause. Hysteria.

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Middle Ages - renaissance

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Influence of church, abnormal behaviour=devil
Witchcraft, mass hysteria
Emotional contagion - automatic mimicry of everything

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17
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Enlightenment from Middle Ages by who?

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Johann Weyer specialized in treatment of mental illness and Paracelsus believed that mental illness could be hereditary (not demons)

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18
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Nineteenth century moral treatment

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Move from asylums to special facilities
More humane treatment
Respect, kindness, religion, vocation

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19
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Founders of moral treatment

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Philippe Pinel, William Tuke, Benjamin Rush, Dorothea Dix, Emil Kraepelin

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20
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Mental health facilities Canada

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Hotel Dieu Quebec 1639
Many converted jails and military barracks in 1800s
Homewood 1883 for wealthy, privately funded so residents had no control

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21
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How many adults will have suffered from a psych in Canada

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1/3

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22
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SES

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Socioeconomic status

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Psychoanalytic Freud 20th century

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Unconscious, environmental factors, parental influence, infancy (first 5 years life), sexual urges

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Behaviourism 20th century, Pavlov and Watson

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Pavlov dogs
Little Albert - noise bunny
Little Peter - noise bunny then desensitized by Jones
Behaviour learned and unlearned

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Structure of a neuron

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Dendrite, soma, axon, synapse, neurotransmitter, receptor

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Biological models

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Biological scarring - disorder changes brain 
Hereditary factors
Brain malfunction or structural abnormal
Viral infection theory of fetus
Behavioural genetics
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Psychoanalysis made by

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Freud 1856-1939

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Psychoanalysis parts of mind

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Id (pleasure, unconscious), ego (copes with reality, both un/conscious), superego (moral restraint, guilt, both)

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Defence mechanisms

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In psychoanalysis, used as a way to prevent or cause abnormal behaviour

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Psychosexual stages of development

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Oral, anal, phallic (mastubration 3-5 love parent), latency (ew boys), genital (mature stage)
Become fixated at stage of age of negative experience

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Psychoanalysis treatment

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Dream analysis, interpretation, free association, insight (bring unconscious material to conscious), catharsis (releasing psychic energy)

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Carl Jung

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Modern psychoanalytic, developed analytical therapy

Believed behavioural motivators are psychological and spiritual vs sexual (Freud)

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Alfred Adler

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Modern psychoanalytic, development of individual psychology

Sibling rivalry, birth order, inferiority complex.

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Contemporary models of psychoanalysis:

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Ego psychology (increased focus on conscious motivations)
Object relations theory (emotional relations with objects)
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Behavioural psychological model

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We are products and producers of our environment, behaviours are learned, sometimes maladaptive as a source of coping

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Vicarious conditioning

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Learning by observing another person

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Behaviour is learned by (behavioural theory)

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Social learning, operant conditioning, reinforcement, punishment

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Cognitive psychological model

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Aaron Beck (1921-)
Perception is our reality, how we perceive influence how we act, think, and feel
Cognitive behavioural therapy

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Beck view on depression

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Three distorted views: negative view of self, world, future

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Cognitive treatment

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Based on changing these distorted thoughts through behavioural experiments and talk therapy

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Cog distortions:
Mental filtering
Reasoning emotionally
Mislabelling

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Just choosing the bad
Feel bad, is bad
Did bad, I am horrible

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Humanistic psychological model

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Carl Rogers (1902-1987)
Abnormal behaviour originates when self image and actual self are incongruent, limits ability to achieve full potential
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Phenomenology

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One’s worldview is more important than actual world

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Client-centred therapy (humanistic)

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Genuineness, empathic understanding, unconditional positive regard.

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Biopsychosocial model

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Examines all factors, systemic approach, different factors contribute to the illness as a whole.

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Diathesis stress model

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Diathesis is bio or psych vulnerability
Stress is environmental factors
Combine to make distress/dysfunction results in psych disorder

47
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Is behaviour truly abnormal?

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Does it cause impairment and distress impacting functioning?

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Scientist-practitioner approach

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Look at the science and theories behind it, conduct research to guide and improve psychology

49
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Goodness of fit

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Understanding behaviour in specific context

50
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DSM-V

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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders fifth edition
Uses categorical approach

51
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Etiology

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Cause

52
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Dementia praecox

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Schizophrenia first identified by Kraepelin

53
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Operant conditioning

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Behaviour changed by events happen afterward (punishment and reinforcement)

54
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What percentage Canadians meet criteria for substance abuse

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20%

55
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First person to adopt occupational therapy

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Pinel