Chapter 14 Flashcards
What is a diagnosis
Formal identification of a psychological disorder
What is clinical judgement
Mental health professionals use of previous professional experiences to inform clinical decision making
What is stigma
Disapproval, poor treatment, discrimination, or isolation due to being different
What are eugenics
A philosophical argument that seeks to improve human society by encouraging reproduction by people with desirable qualities and discouraging reproduction by people with undersirable qualities
What is deinstitutionalization
A movement to reduce admission to psychiatric hospitals, shorten legnths of stay, and improve the treatment that admitted individuals received
What is person first language
The practice referring to an individual first and their disability second
What is sexual orientation
An enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction to others that begins in early adolescence. Common sexual orientation include gay, lesbian, straight etc.
What is spectrum
A continuum used to classify the level of impairement of a psychological disorder
What is spectrum
A continuum used to classify the level of impairment of a psychological disorder
What are positive symptoms
Behaviours that we’re not present before the onset of a psychotic disorder
What are negative symptoms
Behaviours typically observed in healthy individuals that an individual experiencing psychosis does not do
What is a heterogeneous clinical syndrome
A psychiatric diagnosis that can be made based on several different symptoms, which may or may not overlap from individual to individual
What is a debilitating condition
A disorder that seriously affects an individuals ability to carry on with regular activities in their life
What is suicide
The act of intentionally ending one’s own life
What are societal pressures
Social expectations that influence how individuals behave and respond to their environment
What are manifestations
The display, show or demonstration of symptoms of a psychological disorder
What are obsessions
Recurrent, uncontrollable, and intrusive thoughts, fears, urges or images
What are compulsions
Recurrent, uncontrollable and intrusive behaviours that an individual feels driven to perform, often in response to an obsession
What is social withdrawal
Avoidance of people and or activities that were once enjoyable
What is dissociation
Mental processes that jnvolve a disruption in an individuals memory, identity, emotion, perception and behaviour
What is vicarious
Experienced by watching, listening to, or reading about someone else doing something
What is somatic
Refers to something that is specifically related to the body and not the mind
What is picky eating
A behaviour in which an individual eat only a certain type of food or refuse to eat foods based on color, smell, or texture
What is prevalence rate
An indication of how widespread a psychological disorder is within a specific population
