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CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

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  • study of theory, assessment, and treatment of mental and emotional disorders
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Psychoanalytical theory

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  • Sigmund Freud
  • most extensive complex theory of human nature
  • conflict central to human nature, between drives of conscious and unconscious
  • individuals motivated by drive reduction
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Greatest conflict in psychoanalytical theroy

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  • 1st was between libido (sex) and ego

- later revised that conflict is between eros (life instinct) and thanatos (death instict)

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Layout of mind in psychoanalytical theroy

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  • first viewed layout of mind as a topographic model of mental life which conscious elements were openly acknolwedged forced and unconscious elements e.g. drives and wishes and layers below consciousness
  • later model is was structural = mental life has particular organization rather than layers
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3 components of structural organization:

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1) ego
2) id
3) superego

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Ego

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  • mediates between envionrment and pressures of id and superego
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Id

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  • contains unconscious biological drives

- life at birth consists of id (biological drives e.g. aggression) then develops to include unconscious wishes

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Superego

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  • imposed learned or socialized drives

- not born with - influenced by moral and parental training

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How well a person handles their ego =

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  • determines their mental health

- constant push pull between competing forces of id, superego, and environment

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Abnormal theory (psychoanalytical)

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  • result of repressed drives and conflicts that manifest in dysfunctional ways
  • pathological behaviour, dreams, and unconscious behavior are symptoms of underlying unresolved conflicts
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Psychic determinisms

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  • pathological behavior from unresolved conflict is manifested when ego does not find acceptable ways to express conflict
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Therapy (psychoanalytical)

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  • Psychoanalysis or analysis
  • seen 4-5x week vs. 1x or 2x and for many years
  • intitially used hyponosis and later switched to free association
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Charcot and Janet

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  • hypnosis
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Breuer

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  • free association

- process in which patients reeports thoughts

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Catharsis or abreaction

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  • discharge of repressed emotion through free association
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Transference

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  • central idea to psychoanalysis
  • patients react to therapist like they reacted to their parents
  • serve as metaphor for patient’s repressed emotions about parents
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Countertransference

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  • how therapist feels about their patient

- unconscious feelings or wishes

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Object relations theory

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  • therapist uses patients transference to help them resolve problems that were result of previous relationships by correcting emotional experience in their therapist-patient realtionship
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Goal of therapy (psychoanalyitical)

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  • lessen unconscious pressures by making much of this material conscious as possible
  • allow ego to better mediate forces
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Criticism (psychoanaylitical)

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  • develops theories from single cases studies of woman

- not scientific method

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Aggression

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  • central force in humans that must find socially acceptable outlet
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Defense mechanism

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  • way in which ego protects itself from threatening unconscious material/environmental forces
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Repression/denail

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  • not allowing threatening material into awareness
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Rationalization

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  • justifying/rationalizing behavior or feelings that cause guilt
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Projection

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  • accusing others of having one’s own unacceptable feelings
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Displacement

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  • shifting unacceptable feelings or action to less threatening recipient
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Reaction formation

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  • embracing feelings or behaviours opposite to the true threatening feeling that one has
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Compensation

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  • excelling in one area to make up for shortcomings in another
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Sublimination

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  • channeling threatening drives into acceptable outlets
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Identification

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  • imitating a central figure in one’s life
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Undoing

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  • performing ritualistic activity in order to relieve anxiety about unconscious drives
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Dreams

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  • safe outlets for unconcious meterial and wish fulfillment
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Manifest content

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  • actualy content of reams provides info for latent content
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Latent content

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  • unconscious forces the dreams are trying to express
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Pleasure principle

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  • AKA primary process
  • human motivation to skeek pleasure, avoid pain
  • salient in early life
  • where id operates
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Reality principle

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  • AKA secondary process

- guided by ego and responds to demands of the environment by delaying gratification

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Screen memory

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  • serve as representations of important childhood experiences
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Individual theory/Alderian theory

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  • Alfred Adler
  • people are viewed as creative, social and whole
  • people realize themselves via “becoming”
  • motivated by social needs and feelings of inferiority when current self doesn’t match self-ideal
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Will to power

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  • health individual has will to power to quest for superiort in spite of inferiority
  • pursue quest that are outside himself and beneficial to society
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Abnormal theory (Alderian)

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  • unhealthy individuals are too much affected by inferior feelings to pursue the will to power
  • make excuses and if they do pursue goals are self-serving and egotistical
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Therapy (Alderian)

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  • psychodynamic approach where unconscious feelings play a role
  • examination of person’s lifestyle and choices
  • patient examines motivation perception, goals and resources
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Goal of therapy (Alderian)

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  • aims to reduce feelings of inferiortiy

- foster social interest and social contribution

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Criticism (Alderian)

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  • best use with normal people in search of growth
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What did Alder create?

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  • a peronality typology based on personal activity and social interest
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Ruling-dominant type (choleric)

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  • high actibity
  • low social contribution
  • dominant
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Getting-learning type (phlegmatic)

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  • low activity
  • high social contribution
  • dependent
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Avoiding type (melancholic)

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  • low activity
  • low social contribution
  • withdrawn
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Socially useful type (sanguine)

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  • high activity
  • high social contribution
  • healthy
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Analytical Theory

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  • Gustav Jung
  • freud placed too much emphasis on libido
  • psyche was directed towards life and awarness (rather than sex)
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Unconscious is divded into 2 types (jung)

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  • personal unconscious: material from own experiences that can become conscious
  • collective unconcscious: dynamics of psyche inherited from ancestors
  • commmon to all people and contain archetypes
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Archetype (jung)

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  • best knwon concept
  • universially meaningful concepts passed down through collective unconscious since beginning of man
  • allow us to oranized expericnce across cultures
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Persona (jung)

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  • person’s outer mask
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Shadow (jung)

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  • person’s dark side

- often projected onto other

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Anima (jung)

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  • female elements that man possess
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Animus (jung)

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  • male elemtns that females possess
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Self

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  • full individual potential, symbolized in cultures by figures
    e. g. mandala
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Abnomal theory (jung)

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  • something is wrong in makeup of the psyche

- provides clues about how one could become more aware

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Therpy( jung)

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  • psychodynamic because unconscious elements are addressed

- material exposed via analsis of individual’s dreams, personal symbols etc.

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Goal of therapy (jung)

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  • use unconscious messages in order to become more aware and closer to full potential
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Criticisms (jung)

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  • too mystical/spiritual
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Client centered therapy

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  • rogers
  • AKA person centered/Rogerian therapy centered around humanistici and optimistic outlook on human nature
  • individuals have atualizing tendency that can direct them out of conflict and toward full potential
  • best via atmosphere that fosters growth
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Abormal theroy (roger)

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  • people who lack congruency between real selves and their conscious self concept
  • feelings are inconsistent with acknowledged concept of self
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therapy (roger)

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  • direct by client

- therapist is nondirective and only provide atmopshere for client’s self-exploration

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Empathy(roger)

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  • by therapist shoudl appreacite rather than just observe the client’s world
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Unconditional positive regard (roger)

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  • facilitates a trusting and safe environment

- therapist maintains positive feelings no matter what the therapist chooses

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Genuinessess/congreuence (roger)

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  • feelings and experiences of therapist should match

- shoud not maintain a professional reserve but speak genuinely with client

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Goal of therapy (roger)

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  • provide trusting atmosphere where client can egnahe in self-directed growth
  • evidence = congruent self-concept, positive self-regard, internal locus of evluation and willingess to experience
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Criticism (roger)

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  • used no diagnositc tools because believed that client-centered therapy applied to any psychological problem
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Behaviour Theory

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  • Skinner, Pavlov, Wolpe
  • applicatio of classical and operatn conditions to human abnormal behviaour
  • based on learning
  • change maladaptie beaviour through new learning
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Radicsl behaviourism

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  • associatd with skinner’s operant ideas

- behaviour only related to consequences

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Neobehaviourism

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  • used pavlov’s classical couterconditioning principles to create new responses to stimuli
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Abnormal theroy (behaavioursm)

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  • result of learning
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Therapy (beahvuoursm)

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  • short term and direted
  • thoughts, unconscious etc. are not addressed
  • uses techniques of counterconditioning to foster the learning of new responses in client
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Sytematic desensitization (behavioursim)

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  • developed by Wolpe
  • classical conditioning to relieve anxiety
  • exposed to increainly anxiety provoking stimuli until anxiety associated with those stimui is decreased
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Flooding or impolsive therapy (behviourism)

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  • applies classical conditioning in order to relieve anxiety
  • repeatdly exposed to any anxiety producing sitmuli so that overeposure leads to lessen anxiety
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Aversion therapy (beahviourism)

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  • operant pinciple of negative reinforcement to reduce anxiety
  • anxiety reaction is created where there was preiously none
  • treat addiction and fetishes
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Shaping (behviourism)

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  • operant conditiongin to change behaviour

- reinforced for beahviours that come closer to desired action

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Modeling (behviourism)

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  • employs social learning that exposes client to more adaptive behaviours
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Assertiveness training (beahvuourism)

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  • provides tools and exprience thorough which client is more assertive
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Role playing (beahvioursm)

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  • allow client to practive new beaivours and repsonses
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Goal of therapy (beahvoiurism)

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  • change beaviour in desired or adpative direction

- extremly successful in treatiung phobias, fetishes, OCD, seuxal probems, and childhood disorders

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Crtiticism (beahviourism)

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  • accused of treating symptoms rather than underlying probem
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Cognitive thoery

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  • beck
  • consious thought patterns are starring role in peoples lives
  • way person interprets experince, rather than the epeirnce itself
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Abnoral theroy (beck)

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  • maladaptive cognitiongs lead to abnormal beahviours
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Arbitrary inference (beck)

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  • drawing conlsucions without solid evidnece
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Overgeneralization (beck)

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  • Mistaking isolated incident for the norm
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Magnifying/minimizing (beck)

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  • making too much or little of something
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Peronalizing (beck)

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  • inappropriately taking responsbility
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Dichotomous thining (beck)

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back and white thinking

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Cognitive triad

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  • negative views about self, world and future cuase depression
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Beck depression inventory (BDI)

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  • measures cognitive traid to guage severity of depression
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Therapy (beck)

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  • directed therapy to expose maladaptive thought and reasoning patterns
  • short term and focus on tangible evidence of client’s logica (e.g. what they say or do)
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Goal of therapy (beck)

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  • to correct maladaptive cognitions
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Criticims (beck)

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  • address how person thinks rather why pattersn were initally developed
  • removing symptoms may not cure the problem
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Rationale-emotive theroy

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  • albert ellis
  • elements of cognitive, behvaioural, emotion theory
  • interwined thoughts and feelings produce behaviour
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Abnormal theory (raional emotive)

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  • tensions is created when activating event occurs (A) and client appies certain beliefs about event (B) and leads to consequence of emotional disruption (C)
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Therapy (rational emotive)

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  • therapy is directive

- lead client to dispute (D) the previously applied irrational beliefs

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Goal of thearpy (rational emotive)

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  • effective rational beliefs(E) is to replace previous self-defeating one
  • thought, feelings, behaviours can coexist
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Crticism (rational emotive)

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  • RET is too sterile and mechanistic like cognitive abdbehavoural
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Gestalt theory (Perls, werthiemer, koffa)

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  • stand apart from beliefs, biases and attitudes derived from the past
  • fully experience and percieve the present to become whole and integrated person
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Abnormal theory (gestalt)

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  • derived from disturbances of awareness

- client may not have insight and not fully experince his present situation (now acnowledging situation)

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Therapy (gestalt)

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  • engages in dialogue with client rather than leading the client toward any goal
  • learns from shared dialoge and focus on present rather than past and future
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Goal of therapy (gestalt)

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  • exploration of awarness and full experieinc of the present
  • success is when client is connected to present
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Crticism (gestalt)

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  • not suited for low-functioning and disturbed clients
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Existential theory (Frankl)

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  • age-old philosophical ideas about meaning
  • greatest struggle are those of being vs. nonbeing and meaingfulness vs. meaninlessness
  • constant stive to rise above simply existent (will to meaning)
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Rollo May

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  • major contributor to existential therapy
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Abnormal therapy (existential)

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  • response to perceied meaningless in life is neuroris or neurotic activity
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Therapy (existential)

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  • talking therapy where deep questioning relates to client’s perception an meaning of existence are discussed
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Goal of therapy (existential)

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  • increase sense of being and meaingfulness

- will alleviate neurotic anxiety

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Criticism (existential)

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  • called too abstract for distrubed individuals
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Psychopharmacology

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  • use of medication to treat mental illness
  • do not cure illness but effective at alleviating syptoms
  • sometimes the only treatment recieved
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Abnormal theroy (psychopharmacology)

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  • emotional disturbacnes are partly caused by biological factors that can be successfully treated with medication
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Therapy (psychopharmacology)

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  • aim to affect NT
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Most common NT (monoamines)

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  • dopamin, serotoning, norepinephrine
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Antipsychotics

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  • first drugs used for psychopathology

- treat positive symptoms of schizophrenia by blocking dopamin receptors and inhibit prouction

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Antimanics

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  • manage bipolar
  • inhibit monoamines such as norepinephren and serotinine
  • theory that excessive monoamines = mania
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Antidepressants

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  • opposite action of antimanics
  • theory of abnormally low levels of monoamines cause depression
  • drugs act to increase monoamines production
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Tricylic antidepressant (TCA)

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  • have tricyclic chemical structu
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Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI)

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  • type od antidepressent increase monoamines
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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)

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  • act only on serotonin

- more frequently prescribed antidepressant because of few side effects

121
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Anxiolyntics

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  • reduce anxiety or to induce sleep by increasing effectiveness of GABA (inhibitory NT)
  • high potential for habituation and addiction
122
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Antabuse

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  • changes metasbolism of alchol that result in naseua and vomiting when combined with alcohol
  • countercondition of alchoholics
123
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Goal of therapy (psychopharamcology)

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  • relief from sympomts of psychopathology
124
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Criticism (psychpharamcology)

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  • take away symptoms do not provide interpersonal support
125
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Han Eysenck

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  • critized effectivness of psychotherapy
  • no mroe successful that no treatment at all
  • others have contradicted this point
126
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Anna Freud

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  • applied Fruedian ideas to child and development
127
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Malanie Klien

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  • pioneered objects relation theory and psychoanalysis with childrne
128
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Neofruedian - Horney

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  • empahsized culture and society over instinct

- neuroticism is expressed as movement toward, against, an away from people

129
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Sullivan - neofrudian

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  • empahsized social and interpersonal relationships
130
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Psychodynamic theory

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  • refers to theroies that emphaize role of unconscious
131
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Cogitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

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  • employs principles from cognitive abd behavioural therapy
132
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Humanistic theory

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  • refers to theories that emphasize positive, evolving free will in people
133
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Third Force

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  • humaistic therapy

- in psychotherapy the reaction to psychoanalysis and beahviourlism

134
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Maslow

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  • leader in humanistic movement
  • pyramid of heirarchy of needs
  • huans starts from bottom and work i their way up to hierarcy towards self-actualization aby satisfying the needs at previous levels
135
Q

Play therapy

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  • child clients

- convey emotions, situations, and distrubances

136
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Electrovconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)

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  • electric current to brain and induces convulsions

- effect intervention for severly dperessed

137
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Family therapy

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  • treats family togther and views whoel family as the client
138
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Stress-incoluation training

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  • Meichenbaum

- prepares people for foreseeable stressors

139
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Niel Miller

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  • abnormal behaviour can be learned
140
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Evidence based treatment

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  • refers to treatment for MHC that been shown to produce resuts in empirical research stuidies
  • some argue only treatment shown to work in research is ethical
  • others argue that controlled experiements are noting like realy treatment enviornment
141
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Why are antidepressants frquently employed for depression?

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  • relatively fast relief of symtpoms
  • so that person can attend therapy
  • psychotherapy can be unsuccessful
  • usually require 6 weeks to start working
142
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Applied psychology

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  • uses principles or research findinds to solve problems
143
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DSM 4

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-16 categoires of mHC

144
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Abnormal psychology

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  • beahviour that is deemed not normal

- 16 categories

145
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Mental retardation (childhood)

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  • IQ of 70 or below
  • mild = 55-70
  • moderate = 40-55
  • sever = 25-40
  • profound = under 25
146
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Learning disorders (childhood)

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  • problems with social, communication and interests
147
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Attention deficits ad disruptive behaviour (childhood) (2)

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  • ADHD is indicative of atention, beahviour problem and ipulsivity
  • ODD patterns of behaviour that violate rules, norms or rights of others
148
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Tic (childhood)

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  • tourrettes snydrome e.g.

- motor and vocal tics

149
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Elimintation disorders (childhood)

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  • nocturnal enuresis e.g. bed wetting

- treated with behaviour modiication

150
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Delirium (cogitive)

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  • disturbed consioucness and cogntition
151
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Dementia (cogntive)

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  • result from medical condition e.g. alxhiemers, huntingtons, picks’s (personality changes)
152
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Mental disorders via general medical condition

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  • direct physiological result of medical problem e.g. depression from hypothyriodism
153
Q

Substance related disorder

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  • from use of any toxin
154
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Dependence (substance)

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  • continued use depsite probem
  • need for more
  • desire but inability to stop
  • withdrawal
  • lessen outisde interest
  • time spent locating, using, recovering
155
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Abuse (substance)

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  • recurrent use despite danger
156
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Psychotic disorder

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  • hallucinations or delusions (erronious beliefs) are present
157
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Schizophrenia

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  • dementia preacox (renamed by bleuler)
  • splitmind from reality
  • excessive dopamine
158
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Positive symptoms (schizo)

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  • abrnoamally present

- delusions, perceptiual hallucinations, nonsensical speech, neologism (made up speech)

159
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Negative symptos (schizo)

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  • abnormall absent
  • flat effect
  • restrictions in thoughts, speech, behaviour
160
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Onsset of sczhiophrenai

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  • between adolescent and mid-30
161
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Process schziophrenia

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  • develops graudally

- lowe rrate of recovery

162
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Reactive schizphreni

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  • develops suddely to event
  • higher rate of recovery
  • more likely if person has good social and interpersonal skills
163
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Diathesis stress theory

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  • schizophrenia results from physiological predisposition and external stresor
164
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Paranoid

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  • preoccuptions with hallucionations
165
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Disorganized

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  • hebphrenic schizophrenia

- disorganized pseehc, beahviour, flat effect

166
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Catatonic

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  • psychomotor disturbances
  • catelepsy (waxy figure)
  • prominent posturing (grimacing)
  • echolalia
  • echopraxia (imitating gestures)
167
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Undifferentiaed

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  • not fitting in schizo type
168
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Residual

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  • few positive symptoms
169
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Schizoaffetive

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  • accompanying depressive episode
170
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Delusional disorder

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  • various types
  • eromatic (in love with individual)
  • grandiose
  • jealousy
  • persecutory
  • somatic (believe body is ugly)
171
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Shared psychotic disorder

A
  • folie a deux

- 2 ppl with shared delusions

172
Q

MDD

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  • depressive episode
  • weight changes, sleep changes, anhedonia, suicid
  • every day for 2 weeks
  • twice as common in females
173
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Dysthmic disorder (mood)

A
  • MDD symptoms with no epidosde

- more days than none for 2 years

174
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Bipolar (mood)

A
  • manic dperession
  • depressive and manic symptos that alternative
  • equal in males and females
175
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Panic attack

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  • under 10 mins

- intense fear of dying

176
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Treatment for anxiety

A
  • GAD with anxiolytics, specific anxiety with exposure therapy
177
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Panic disorder

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  • recurrent panic attacks that worry about another attack

- often with mitral vlave heart problem

178
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Agoraphobia

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  • fear of stiaution where panic symptoms might arise

- fear and avoidance

179
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Phobia

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  • recognized, nresonalb efear towards stimuli

- specific phobia and social phobia

180
Q

OCD

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  • obsession and compulsions ( mental acts/repititons) that an time consusmming and siruptive
181
Q

PTSD

A
  • exposure to rama that reuslt in decrease ability to function and recurrent thought sna anxiety about trauma
182
Q

Somatoform disorder

A
  • bodily and physicla smyptoms that reduced functioning
183
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COnversion disorder (somatoform)

A
  • voluntary movement and paralysis
184
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Hypochondrais (somatoform)

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  • irrational concern about having a sesrious disorder
185
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Factitious disorder

A
  • creating physical complains thorugh fabrication and self-inflinction to assume sick role
186
Q

Dissociateive disorder

A
  • disruption in memory or identity (psychogenic disorder)
187
Q

Amnesia (dissociative)

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  • reterograde (can’t remember even before trauma)

- anterograde

188
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Fugue (dissociative)

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  • fleeing to new location
  • forgetting identity
  • establishing new idnetity
189
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Identifity disorder (disoociative)

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  • AKA multiple personality disorder

- 2+ identites

190
Q

Sexual and gender idenity disorder

A
  • fetishes
  • arousal prblems
  • gender disocomfort
191
Q

Eating disorders

A
  • AN (refusing to eat)

- BC (binge and compensate)

192
Q

Dyssomnais

A
  • sleep abnormalities
193
Q

Parasomnias

A
  • abnormal behaviours during sleep
194
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Insomnia

A
  • diffulty falling or staying alssep
195
Q

Hypersomina

A
  • ecessive sleep
196
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Nacolespy

A
  • fallsing asleep everywhre
197
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Nightmare

A
  • disurption of sleep via. nighmares
198
Q

Sleep terrors

A
  • dirusption of sleep via. screaming
199
Q

Impulse control disorder (not elsewhere classified)

A
  • giving into ipulse lessions tensions and brings relief

- diruptive to overall function

200
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Kleptomnia

A
  • steal
201
Q

Pyromani

A
  • set fires
202
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Pathological gambling

A
  • gamble
203
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Trichotillomani

A
  • pull out hair
204
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Adjustment disorder

A
  • presence of real stressor decreases functioning
205
Q

Peronality disordrs

A
  • rigid, pervaisve, vulturally abnormal prsonality structures
206
Q

Paranoid (PD)

A
  • distructs
207
Q

Schizoid

A
  • detachment -

- small rang eof emotion

208
Q

Schizotype

A
  • eceentricity, disotorted reality
209
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Antisocial

A
  • disregard for tothers

- absenc eof guild

210
Q

Borderlin

A
  • insaility in realtionships

- impuslive

211
Q

Histronic

A
  • attention seeking and emotional
212
Q

Narcissitic

A
  • need for admiration and superiority
213
Q

Avoidnt

A
  • insecury, social inhibitons, hypersensitive

- perception in indqadeuqnecy

214
Q

Depdnent

A
  • clingy
215
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Obeseevvie copuslie

A
  • perfectionism
216
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Dopamin

A
  • too much = schozphrenia
  • use amphtamines to incree activity - produces paranoid symptoms
  • Neuroleptic blocks dopmaine
  • parksons = deficieny in dopamin (neuroleptics can cause this)
217
Q

Tardive dyskinesia

A
  • long term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics

- involuntary movements of tongue, jaw etc.

218
Q

Down syndrome

A
  • trisoy of chromosom 21
219
Q

Cretinism

A
  • idodine deficieny
220
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Korskoff’s syndome

A
  • vit B deficieny
  • loss of memory or orientation
  • confabulations = make up events
  • from alchoholism
221
Q

Wernicke’s syndrome

A
  • thanimine deficieny

- memory problems and eye dysfucntions

222
Q

Phynlyketonuria (PKU)

A
  • excessive amino acids

- metabolic error

223
Q

Tay-Sach disease

A
  • resemeble schizphrenia and demantia

- deficieny of hexoamindase A

224
Q

Klinefelter’s syndrom

A
  • XYY male
225
Q

Depression rates

A
  • higher in developed countries

- woman 2x

226
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Ractive depression

A
  • from particular events

- similar to learned helplessneess

227
Q

Szasz

A
  • sczhiophrenic world is misunderstood or artistic and shouldn’t be treated
228
Q

Depressive realism

A
  • idea that depressed have more realistic view of world
229
Q

Fromm and Reichman

A
  • schiophrenogenic moter

- cause children to be schozphrenic

230
Q

Rosenhan

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  • diagnostic lables of perception

- those with fake illnesses acted normal but stilll fit diaonsis

231
Q

Life event stress

A
  • result from large, sudden changes or problems
232
Q

Healthy pschology

A
  • more likely to get sick when stressed

- social support = better health outcomes

233
Q

Multiaxial assessement

A
  • clients are assessed acros 5 axis for complete picture of their functioning
    1) clinical disorders
    2) personality disorder
    3) general medical
    4) psychosocial
    5) global
234
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APA

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  • founded in 1892 by stanley hall
  • includes american psychologist, psychological bulletin, and psychological abstracts
  • also includes PSYC INFO
235
Q

Primary prevention

A
  • attentps to prevent psychosocial problem thorugh direct contact with at-risk people
  • proactive intervention that take place before prolems arise
236
Q

Culturally competent interventions

A
  • reconize and tailored to cultural differences

- learn language, cusoms and norms

237
Q

Community psychology

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  • taken into communict via community cneters and schools

- respoects and recognizes logisitics that keep neediest people from seeking help

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