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Chapter 13 Flashcards

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Pinel

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A post brutal treatment and proposed moral treatment the madness of sickness of mine caused by severe stress and inhumane treatment

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The biopsychosocial approach

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General approach posting that biological psychological and social cultural factors All play significant role in human functioning in the context of disease or illness

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Attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder

ADHD

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11% of 4 to 17 yr olds receive this diagnosis
2.5% have adhd symtoms
•treated with meds and therapy

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Classification in psychiatry and psychology

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  • provides name and description.
  • Simply to the future of the disorder
  • suggest treatment
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DSM-5

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American psychiatric Association 2013 diagnosis and statistical manual of mental disorders
Criticism: contributes to pathologist my of everyday life and system labels are society’s value judgements

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Anxiety disorders

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Marked by discussing persistent anxiety or Maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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Person is constantly tense and uneasy for no apparent reason

  • 2/3 are women
  • decreases with age
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Panic disorder

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Person experiences sudden episodes of intense Dread and often as if you have the next attack might strike
-smoking increases risk for attacks

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Phobias

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Person feels irrationally and intensely afraid of a specific object or situation

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder

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Person is troubled by repetitive thoughts or actions

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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Person has lingering memories nightmares and other symptoms for weeks after severely threatening and Uncontrollable event

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Stimulus generalization

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Fearful event can cause one to be scared of similar events

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13
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hyper vigilance

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Natural selection

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Biological preparedness to fear threats Easily conditioned and difficult to extinguish

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Substance use disorder

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Involves continued substance craving and use despite significant like disruptions and or physical risk

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Psychoactive drugs

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Include chemicals that change perceptions and mood

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Drug effectiveness

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Depends on biological effects in the users psychological expectations

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What are the three major categories of psychoactive drugs?

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Alcohol

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Depressant 
-unleashes urges 
-slowed neural processing
(Sympathetic nervous system slows)
-memory disruption
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Warning signs of alcohol use disorder

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  • binge drinking
  • craving alcohol
  • use results in unfinished work
  • continued use when risky
  • can’t drink less often
  • avoiding family or friends when drinking
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Barbiturate

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Depressant

  • stop activity of central nervous system reducing anxiety by and Perry memory and judgment
  • Nembutal, Seconal, Amytal
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Opiates

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Depressant
-slows breathing, causes lethargy ,depresses neural activity, temporary Lessing pain and anxiety, causes with drawl
-opium and its derivatives such as codeine, morphine and heroin
Addictive

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Stimulant drugs

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  • dilation of pupils increase in heart and breathing rates rise in blood sugar and drop an appetite. Often involve increases energy and self-confidence
  • caffeine, nicotine and amphetamines (cocaine, ecstasy and meth)
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Nicotine

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Cigno central nervous system to release a flood of neurotransmitters

  • diminishes appetite
  • boost alertness and mental efficiency -calms anxiety and reduces sensitivity to pain
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Cocaine

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  • stimulant
  • quick rush of euphoria
  • involves crash of agitated depression
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Hallucinogens

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Distort perceptions and call up sensory images without any input from the senses

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Marijuana

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Continue THC

  • increase sensitivity to colors sounds and a tastes and smells
  • relaxes, disinhibition and impair motor and perceptual skills and reaction time
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LSD

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Hallucinogen

  • acid
  • interferes with serotonin neurotransmitter system
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Major depressive disorder

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  • A persistent state of helpless depression.

- Occurs when signs of depression less to aerobics and I’m not caused by drugs or medical condition

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Bipolar disorder

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  • and I’ll turn nation between depression and overexcited hyperactivity
  • may include seasonal patterns involves a search and diagnosis
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Suicide and self injury

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  • suicide: 1 million ppl worldwide

- nonsuicidal self injury(NSS) :cutting burning etc

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The depressed brain

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  • Brian activity slows
  • less frontal lobe activity
  • scarcity of norepinephrine and serotonin

-most major episodes end on their own

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Cycle of depressed thinking

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  1. stressful experiences
  2. neg explanatory style
  3. depressed mood
  4. cognitive and behavioral changes
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Schizophrenia

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Psychological disorder characterized by delusions hallucinations disorganized speech and diminished inappropriate emotional expression

  • slow or fast onset
  • recovery is harder for slow onset
  • men struck earlier, harder, and more often
  • excess dopamine receptors
  • all part of brain don’t connect
  • low frontal activity
  • rapid brain tissue loss
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What prenatal things can cause schizophrenia

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  • low birth weight
  • lack of oxygen during delivery
  • maternal prenatal nutrition
  • mid pregnacy viral infection
36
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What are odd of schizophrenia

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1/100

-1/10 for those with diagnosed fam member

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Anorexia nervosa

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Person who maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight
-usually teenage Female

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Bulimia nervosa

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Person alternates binge eating with purging fasting or excessive exercise

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Binge eating disorder

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Significant binge eating followed by distress discuss our doubts but without the purging testing our excessive exercise that Marks bulimia Nervosa

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Dissociative disorder

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Conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories thoughts and feelings

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Dissociative identity disorder (DID)

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Where dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities also called multiple personality disorder

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Critics of dissociative disorder

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  • short history of DID
  • lower incidence outside of North America
  • suggest it could be self perception instead of a disorder
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Personality disorder

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Inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning may include withdrawal or avoidance of social contact insecurity, or manipulative behaviors

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Personality disorder

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Inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning may include withdrawal or avoidance of social contact insecurity instability or manipulative behaviors

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Antisocial personality disorder

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Lack of conscious for wrongdoing even as friends and family members impulsive fearless irresponsible some genetic tendency including lower arousal
-typically make images before 15

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Psychological disorder

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A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in the person’s thoughts feelings and behaviors

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