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Chapter/Week 1 Flashcards

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Psychopathology

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Scientific studied of psychological disorders

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Psychological disorders

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psychological dysfunction that is ass. w/ distress and/or impairment in functioning that is considered atypical

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Dysfunction

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breakdown in emotional, cognitive, or behavioral functioning.
Context matters

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What makes behavior abnormal?

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Atypical for culture 
Unusual for age 
Impairs functioning 
substantial emotional distress 
Danger to self or others
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Professionals in the field

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clinical and counseling (PhD, PsyD)
Psychiatrists (MD)
Psychiatric social workers (MSW)
Psychiatric nurses 
Marriage and family therapists 
Mental health counselor
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Clinical Depression

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individuals persons behavior, thoughts and feelings combined

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Presenting problem

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what you explain to therapists, why you are there

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Prevalence

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How many people in population have that issue, sex ratio

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Incidence

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How many new cases, specific amount of time, usually a year

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Age of onset

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when do the symptoms or disorders develop

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etiology

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cause of disorder, usually multiple causes

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course of psychological disorders

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pattern of development and how it changes over time

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episodic course

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episode start and ends, starts and ends and so on

there is a pattern of recovery and then another episode

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regular onset

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is it acute, sudden, gradual?

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Supernatural tradition

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Abnormal behavior is caused by evil (witch craft, sorcery, devil) Used torture, exorcisms, brain surgery,etc.

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Insanity

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caused by lots of stress, cured by telling you to relax or sleep in the supernatural traditions.

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Biological tradition

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Abnormal behavior is explained by physiological and behavioral explanations

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Humeral Theory of Disorders

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Hippocrats/Galen
we have 4 humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile,and phlegm.
These regulate us so imbalance causes disease/disorders
even personality was determined by these
cured by letting out bad blood or vomiting

19
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Delusion vs Hallucination

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D- belief in something that is untrue
H-false perception, seeing or hearing things that are not there
*advanced syphilis has both

20
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Biological Tradition

John P. Grey

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American psychologist
said insanity is always biologically based
pushed for treatment of medical traditions
came up w/ biologically based treatments (insulin shock therapy, lobotomies, ECT)

21
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Psychotropic drugs

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neuroleptics (tranquilizers) benzodiazapihens

22
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Results of Biological Tradition

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Increased hospitalization because of biological belief

Increased scientific focus

23
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Psychological Tradition

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considers social and environmental factors
early 19th century shift toward moral therapy
idea that we should treat patients humanely and morally instead of locking up and medicating
declined mid 19th century

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Dorthena Dicks

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School teacher worked in institutions
told public how bad institutions were and pushed for mental hygiene movement
thought everyone should be treated rich or poor, but this started an increase in patients which decreased quality of mental care

25
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Psychoanalytic theory

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Franz Mesmer - father of hypnosis
Freud took his ideas and worked with charot and breur
they focused on hypnosis as treatment

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Id, Ego and Superego

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Id- basic primal sexual urges, fantasy, impulse
Pleasure principle, not aware of
Ego- logical reasoning, reality principle, aware of
Superego- morality principle, mediated between id and ego

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Intro-psychic conflicts

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struggles between Id, ego and superego

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5 stages of psychosexual development

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oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

remember what happens in each

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Erogenous Zone

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When pleasure is focused on, each stage

30
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neurosis

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when something goes wrong in a stage causes psychological disorder

31
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Displacement

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transfer feelings or thoughts onto someone less threatening

32
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Projection

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Placing undesirable traits or feelings onto someone else

33
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rationalization

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logical explanation for something unacceptable

34
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Reaction formation

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voicing or projecting something in conflict w/ something inside yourself

35
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repression

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pushing down threatening things into unconscious

36
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sublimation

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taking something unacceptable and turning it into something acceptable

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