Chapter 1 - Historical And Modern Perspectives Flashcards
Behaving dysfunctionally
Behaviour interferes with routines, causes significant distress
Abnormal behaviour is:
Inconsistent with societal, cultural, and developmental norms.
Interferes with daily functioning.
Causes emotional distress.
Vincent Li
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
Categorical approach to abnormal behaviour
Do you meet diagnostic criteria?
Downside: symptoms are unique, how much symptom is enough for diagnosis?
Dimensional approach to abnormal behaviour
Behaviour is constantly changing
Can be placed on continuum, quantitative criteria vs all or nothing way of thinking
Who is most at risk for mental illness?
Poor, low education
By 16, what percent children had disorder
36%
Factors to consider when addressing abnormal behaviour
Sex, ethnicity, SES, age (chronological vs developmental maturity), education, bio changes (puberty)
Developmental trajectory
Symptoms vary by age
Downward drift
Impairment as a result of psych disorder
Boys vs girls rate of psych as age
Rate decreases as boys enter teens, rate increases as girls enter adolescence
Trephination
Create hole in skull to release evil spirits (Egypt)
Hippocrates 460-377 BC father of medicine
First to identify hallucinations, delusions, melancholia, hysteria (random blindness), mania.
Most often associated with schizophrenia, somatoform disorders, mood disorders.
Hippocrates what contribute to psych
Environment, physical, four humours. Yellow bile, black bile, blood, phlegm.
Remove patients from family.
Galen contribution
Discounted wandering womb. Had psychological cause. Hysteria.
Middle Ages - renaissance
Influence of church, abnormal behaviour=devil
Witchcraft, mass hysteria
Emotional contagion - automatic mimicry of everything
Enlightenment from Middle Ages by who?
Johann Weyer specialized in treatment of mental illness and Paracelsus believed that mental illness could be hereditary (not demons)
Nineteenth century moral treatment
Move from asylums to special facilities
More humane treatment
Respect, kindness, religion, vocation
Founders of moral treatment
Philippe Pinel, William Tuke, Benjamin Rush, Dorothea Dix, Emil Kraepelin
Mental health facilities Canada
Hotel Dieu Quebec 1639
Many converted jails and military barracks in 1800s
Homewood 1883 for wealthy, privately funded so residents had no control
How many adults will have suffered from a psych in Canada
1/3
SES
Socioeconomic status