Chapter 15

Question 1

What is the medical model ?

Answer 1

This model saw mental illness as a physical disorder needing treatment

Question 2

What is the moral treatment ?

Answer 2

Treated patients with dignity, respect, and kindness. Still no effective treatments.

Question 3

What is chlorpromazine (Thorazine) ?

Answer 3

Medication used to manage and treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and acute psychosis

Question 4

What is deinstitutionalization ?

Answer 4

Releasing patients and closing hospitals

Question 5

What does the DSM stand for ?

Answer 5

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Question 6

What does the DSM contain

Answer 6

Diagnostic criteria and decision rules for each condition

Question 7

What is comorbidity ?

Answer 7

Having two or more disorders at once

Question 8

What is the categorical model ?

Answer 8

Disorder differs from normal functioning in kind rather than degree

Question 9

What is the dimensional model ?

Answer 9

Degree rather than kind

Question 10

What is the mental order defence ?

Answer 10

Legal defence proposing that people shouldn’t be held legally responsible for their actions if they weren’t of “sound mind” when committing them

Question 11

What is involuntary commitment ?

Answer 11

A procedure for protecting us from certain people with mental disorders and protecting them from themselves

Question 12

What are somatic symptom disorders ?

Answer 12

Physical symptoms with psychological origins

Question 13

What is illness anxiety disorder ?

Answer 13

Preoccupation that you have a serious disease despite no evidence

Question 14

What is generalized anxiety disorder ?

Answer 14

Continual feelings of worry, anxiety, physical tension, and irritability about many areas

Question 15

What is panic disorder ?

Answer 15

Repeated, unexpected panic attacks, persistent concerns about future attacks, and change in personal behaviour

Question 16

What are panic attacks ?

Answer 16

Brief, intense episodes of extreme fear characterized by sweating, dizziness, lightheadedness, racing heartbeat, and feelings of impending death or going crazy

Question 17

What are phobias ?

Answer 17

Intense fear of an object or situation that’s greatly out of proportion to its actual threat

Question 18

What is agoraphobia ?

Answer 18

Fear of being put in a place or situation from which escape is diffucult or embarrassing

Question 19

What is Social Anxiety disorder ?

Answer 19

Intense fear of negative evaluation in social situations

Question 20

What is Specific phobia ?

Answer 20

Intense fear of object, places, or situations that is greatly out of proportion to their actual threat

Question 21

What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ?

Answer 21

Emotional disturbance after you experience or witness a severely stressful event

Question 22

What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) ?

Answer 22

Condition marked by repeated and lengthy immersion in obsessions, compulsions, or both

Question 23

What are obsessions ?

Answer 23

Persistent ideas, thoughts, or impulses that are unwanted or innapropriate and cause marked distress

Question 24

What are compulsions ?

Answer 24

Repetative behaviour or mental act performed to reduce or prevent stess

Question 25

What is a major depressive disorder ?

Answer 25

Depressed mood or diminished interest in pleasurable activities, along w/ symptoms that include weight loss and sleep difficulties

Question 26

What is Beck’s cognitive model ?

Answer 26

Depression in caused by negative beliefs and expectations

Question 27

What is learned helplessness ?

Answer 27

Tendency to feel helpless in the face of events we can’t control

Question 28

What are manic episodes ?

Answer 28

Elevated mood, lowered need for sleep, high energy, talktiveness, inflated self-esteem

Question 29

What are personality disorders ?

Answer 29

Personality traits are inflexible, stable, expressed in a wide variety of situations, and lead to distress or impairment

Question 30

What is Borderline Personality Disorder ?

Answer 30

Instability in mood, identity, and impulse control, often highly self-destructive

Question 31

What is psychopathic personality ?

Answer 31

Condition marked by superficial charm, dishonesty, manupulativeness, self-centeredness, and risk taking

Question 32

What is antisocial personality disorder ?

Answer 32

Condition marked by a lengthy history of irresponsible and/or illegal actions

Question 33

What are dissociative disorders ?

Answer 33

Involve disruptions in consciousness, memory, identity, or perception

Question 34

What is Depersonalization disorder ?

Answer 34

Feeling of detachment (like you’re observing yourself)

Question 35

What is Dissociative amnesia ?

Answer 35

Inability to recall important personal information

Question 36

What is Schizophrenia ?

Answer 36

Severe disorder of thought and emotion associated with a loss of contact with reality

Question 37

What are delusions ?

Answer 37

Strongly held, fixed beliefs with no basis in reality

Question 38

What are hallucinations ?

Answer 38

Sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of external stimuli

Question 39

What are catatonic symptoms ?

Answer 39

Motor problems, including extreme resistance to complying with simple suggestions, holding the body in rigid postures, or curling up in a fetal position

Question 40

What is the Diathesis-stress models ?

Answer 40

Proposes that it is the interaction b/w genetic vulnerability (diathesis) and stressors that triggers illness

Question 41

What are Autistics Spectrum Disorders ?

Answer 41

Marked by severe deficits in language, social bonding, and imagination