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Chapter 15 Flashcards

• Conceptions of mental illness • Anxiety disorders • Mood disorders and suicide • Personality and dissociative disorders • Enigma of schizophrenia • Childhood disorders

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What is mental illness?

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Psychopathology - in-depth study of problems related to to mental health.

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What is the “Failure analysis approach”?

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Statistical rarity

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Do all MI generate stress?

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No

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Does laziness = an impairment

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What shapes our views on MI?

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Societal disapproval

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What causes Biological dysfunction?

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Family resemblance view

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What did people in the middle ages blame MI on?

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THE DEMONIC MODEL: Evil spirits, witches, devil’s mark, etc.

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What is the Medical Model?

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Seeing MI as a physical disorder that needed treatment - like bloodletting and snake pits

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T or F: The Moral Treatment created real, effective treatments for MI.

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F: no effective treatments came from this.

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What was a failure in the Modern Era?

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People were released to the public without continued care, follow-ups and medication.

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What countries believe in the culture-bound condition, Koro?

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Malaysia & other Asian countries

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T or F: schizophrenia,
alcoholism, psychopathy are more Westernized MIs.

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F - they are universal across cultures

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What are the 4 misconceptions about MI?

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  1. Psychiatric diagnosis is nothing
    more than pigeonholing
  2. Psychiatric diagnoses are unreliable
  3. Psychiatric diagnoses are invalid
  4. Psychiatric diagnoses stigmatize
    people
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What is the DSM-5?

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) on 5th edition:
A system that contains the criteria for mental disorders with 18 different classes

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What can a thyroid condition simulate?

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Depression
(medically induced conditions can simulate psychological disorders)

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What does the DSM-5 have high levels of?

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Comorbidity: 2 or more diagnosis within the same person

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What is required for people not to know for the Insanity Defense?

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  1. what they were doing at the time of the crime
  2. what they were doing was wrong
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What’s a major myth about people with MI?

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That they are more aggressive or violent

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Can anyone be “involuntarily committed”?

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No, they must post a clear and present threat to themselves or others and cannot care for themselves

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What are some symptoms or Somatic symptom disorders?

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Physical symptoms like nausea or shortness or breath that have psychological origins

23
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Illness anxiety disorder

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24
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What % of the population is affected by Generalized anxiety disorder?

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3%

25
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How do panic attacks negatively affect someone’s daily life?

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They come out of the blue, they can feel like a heart attack, you’ll fear for the next one

26
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What is the most common anxiety disorder?

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Phobias

27
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What is OCD marked by and relieved by?

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Marked by obsessions
Relieved by compulsions

28
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What are the 3 explanations for Anxiety disorders?

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  1. Learning models
    2: Catastrophic thinking
  2. Biological
29
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What is the most common mood disorder?

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Major Depressive Disorder

30
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How long does the average Depressive Episode last?

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6 months - 1 year

31
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What are the 6 explanations for MDD?

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  1. life events
  2. interpersonal model
  3. behavioural model
  4. cognitive model
  5. learned helplessness
  6. role of biology
32
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What is the Cognitive triad?

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Negative views of self, experience & future

33
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How strong is the influence of genes on MDD?

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Moderate

34
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T or F: Bipolar disorder is equally common in men and women

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True

35
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Role of brain structures related to emotion (blank)
& planning (blank) in bipolar disorder

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increase, decrease

36
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T or F: As a severe depression lifts, people’s suicide risk
decreases.

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False: As a severe depression lifts, the risk of suicide may
actually increase, in part because individuals possess
more energy to attempt the act

37
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3 clusters of Personality disorders are:

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Dramatic, erratic or emotion, anxious or fearful

38
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What does BPD have instability in?

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Mood, identity and impulse control

39
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Psychopathic personality overlaps with ____ ____ disorder

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Antisocial personality

40
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What do people with psychopathic personality have a deficit in?

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Fear

41
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What’s under the umbrella of Dissociative Disorders?

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Depersonalization disorder, dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue

42
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What is the criticism about posttraumatic model with DID?

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Early abuse is not specific to DID

43
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T or F: Treatment decreases the number of alters people see

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False. Treatment often reinforces the idea that the person has alters

44
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What are some symptoms of schizophrenia?

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Disturbances in attention, thinking, language, emotion, and relationships.
A hallmark symptom is DELUSIONS

45
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What is a hallucination?

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Sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of external stimuli

46
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How can families affect schizophrenia?

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Through Expressed Emotion (criticism, hostility, over-involvement)

47
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What are the brain abnormalities associated with schizophrenia?

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Enlarged ventricles
Increased sulci size
Hypofrontalitiy

48
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T or F: Most anti-schizophrenia drugs block dopamine receptors, decreasing symptoms of the disorder

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False

49
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What’s a highly genetically influenced disorder?

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Schizophrenia and/or ADHD

50
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T or F: The rise in autism diagnosis after the 1990s is linked to MMR vaccines

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False, research shows no link between vaccines and autism

50
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What’s the ratio of male to females with ADHD?

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3:1

50
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What caused people to blame autism on vaccines?

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Illusory correlation

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