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Chapter 12-psychological disorders Flashcards

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Inappropriate affect

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Action inappropriate for situation
-uncontrollable laughter at wrong time

In schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia

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Split between thoughts and emotions

Nothing to to with split personality

Thinking is scattered
-loose associations

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Bland/flattened affect

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No emotions shown

Schizophrenia condition

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Labile affect

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Back and forth between inappropriate affect and no emotions

Schizophrenic personality

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Schizophrenic psychosis

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Hallucinations

- most common is auditory

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Schizophrenic lucid/clear periods

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In touch with reality

-occurs from time to time

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Neologisms

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Made up language between schizophrenics

Not understood by others

Coined expression or language

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Schizophrenic religiosity

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Push religion down someone’s throat

Always quote the bible

Fanatics

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Children of schizophrenic patients

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Double bind situation
-catch 22

Encouraged to give attention/affection to parent

Parent rejects child
-unable to give child proper care and attention

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Schizophrenic positive/negative symptoms

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Positive (severe)

  • delusions
  • hallucinations
  • being out of touch with reality

Negative (minor)

  • social withdrawal
  • apathy
  • showing no/blunt/affect emotions
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Can only be on anti psychotic meds for so long

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Tartive dyskinesia

Gumming

Fly catching motions

Myoclonus jerks
-spastic muscle jerks

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What causes schizophrenia

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Chemical imbalance

Excessive amounts of dopamine

Enlarged ventricles
-fluid filled cavities in the brain

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Clang association

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Schizophrenia

Always rhyming words

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All schizophrenics fall in two categories

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Reactive (acute)

  • react to the situation stress
  • temporary psychotic break
  • when stress goes away, go back to being normal

Process (chronic)

  • slow, gradual process of becoming schizophrenic
  • always schizophrenic
  • 50% of autistic children become schizophrenic by adolescence (18-19)
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4 types of schizophrenia

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Catatonic

Paranoid

Disorganized

Chronic undifferentiated

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Catatonic schizophrenia

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Motor disturbance

  • agitated/hyper active
  • catatonic stupor

Frozen mobility

  • locked on one thought or object
  • does not say anything
  • can be for days, weeks, month at a time
  • once they break the stupor, they finish the sentence
  • waxy flexibility
  • move arms and legs, they stay in that position

Either agitated or catatonic
-can not go back and forth

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Paranoid schizophrenic

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Highest emotional and intellectual level

Appear normal until you tap into their delusion

Always planning on how to “get you, before you get them”

Distrustful

Auditory most common

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Disorganized schizophrenia

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Show regression back to infantile behavior
-spit in face, vulgar, masturbate in public

Loose association

Inappropriate affect

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Chronic undifferentiated affect

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Can not diagnose type of schizophrenia

Show symptoms of all types

Catch all diagnosis
-waste bucket

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Psychiatric interview

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Unstructured interview

  • no preconceived notions
  • go with the flow
  • no mental checklist

Establish and maintain a good rapport

  • mutual respect and understanding
  • good working relationship

Favorite three words
-tell me more

Avoid giving advice

Ask open ended questions

  • let’s client talk about what is important to them
  • don’t ask fixed questions

Never ask the question why

  • makes you rationalize/justify position
  • can bring up negative feelings
  • embarrass the subject, put on the spot
  • don’t always know why we do things

Make behavioral observations

  • allows patient to comment on observation
  • offers defense without demanding one

Focus on feelings
-what are you feeling right now

Don’t let patient manipulate the interview
-they may to try to control interview, interview you

Avoid killer statements

  • “you don’t really believe that do you.”
  • “I don’t believe you said that”
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Anxiety

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General apprehension or nervousness about something that takes place in the future

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Fear

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Present time

Rational

Put in immanent danger

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Phobia

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Irrational fear

Something in the past causes fear

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Agoraphobia

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Open spaces

Panic attacks associated with fear

Become shut ins

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Coprophobia

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Fear of feces

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Xanthophonia

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Color yellow

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Satanophobia

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Devil

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Phallophobia

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Penis

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Astraphobia

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Storms

Thunder

Lightening

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Equinophobia

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Horses

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Triskaidekaphobia

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Number 13

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Arachnophobia

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Spiders

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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Anal personality

Obsessed with one thought to the exclusion of all other thoughts

Death on the brain

  • homicide
  • suicide

Sex on the brain
-nympho

Cleanliness/germs

  • cleaning
  • washing hands

If you are obsessed with thinking may not be compulsive behavior

If you are compulsive with actions you thought about it beforehand
-check, recheck, and check again

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Hypochondriacal disorder

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Imaginary illness

-all in your head

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Psychosomatic disorder

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Real, genuine disorders

Brought on by stress (emotional)
-converted to real physical symptoms

Treat emotional problems first, physical problems will tend to disappear

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What causes one to be abnormal?

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Raging conflict between id, ego, super ego
-Freudian, psychoanalytical

Behavioral point of view
-we learn to be abnormal, just like we learn any other type of behavior

Humanistic point of view
-faulty self image, distorted view of yourself

Cognitive point of view
-false assumptions and unrealistic coping strategies

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Dissociative disorders

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Cut off part of yourself from rest of yourself

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Depersonalization

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Don’t feel attached to your own body

Traumatic event happened
-don’t want to deal with it

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Amnesia

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Cut off memory from contact with other memories

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Glove anesthesia

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No feeling in hand

Emotionally hand cut off

Caused by guilt
-startling, masturbation

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Fugue state

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Lost identity of the past

Running away from something in the past

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Did

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Multiple personality disorder

Long history of psych illness

Most are malingerers
-avoiding responsibility

Very few actual did individuals

95% sexually and physically abused in childhood

Wacky American fad
-does not exist outside America

Self mutilating behavior
-enjoy slasher films

Separate handwritings

Different brain waves

Different period cycles

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Anti social personality

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Character disorder

Something went wrong with socialization process

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Psychopath/sociopath

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Lie, steal, cheat with no guilt or remorse

Lacking super ego

Charming

Unable to treat with psychotherapy
-due to manipulation

Brain under aroused

  • causes them to me risk takers
  • violence, stealing
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Narcissistic personality

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Exaggerate self love and self importance

Need constant attention and admiration

React in violent rage to criticism

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Depression

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Most common disorder

1 of 2 world wide disorder

50% chance that if 1 twin is depressed, other twin will be depressed

50% chance if depressed will be depressed again within 2 years

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Bipolar disorder

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Formerly known as manic depressive disorder

Highest of irrational highs to lowest of suicidal lows

More often depressed than manic

Negative self image when in depressed cycle
-self blame, guilt, suicidal

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Famous bipolar authors

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Mark twain

Virginia wolf

Earnest Hemingway

Walter Whitman

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Alcoholism

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Drink 3 times as much as other students if you join a fraternity or sorority

1 in 2 become dependent if start before 14

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