clinical psych Flashcards
1
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definitions for classifying mental disorder
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- deviation from statistical norm
- deviation from social norm
- (mal)adaptivity, distress & impairment - checks patient history/ environmental factors to prove normal behaviour as response to abnormal circumstances or just abnormal disorder.
2
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psychogenic approach
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focus on emotional, mental stressors, environment
3
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behaviour
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Applied behavioral analysis aba therapy - skinner
4
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humanist
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individual based therapy
5
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biological model in psychiatry
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disease, medical treatment, genes, brain structure, drugs SSRI - most scientific, chaper, symptom depleting, reduces stigma - credibility of a syndrome e.g, schizo
symptom based diagnosis, not good at explaining complex conditions
6
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cognitive model
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cause based, less measurable processes- thoughts, treated from outside - CBT, still science based, but not so easily measured - cause & effect.
7
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focus of clinical psych
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- treatment & diagnosis of symptoms for disorders once deviation has been flagged.
