Conceptualizing Psychiatry Flashcards
Which of these is NOT a domain of psychiatric symptoms?
Affect (hopeless) Behavior (impulsivity) Cognition (distractability) Learning (understanding) Perception (delusions) Social Interaction (relationships)
Learning is not one of the five domains
abnormally elevated/irritable mood, decreased need for sleep, increased activity/agitation, impaired judgement
Mania
Weeks to months in duration
Episodic
Episodes of depression without mania
Major Depressive Disorder
Evidence needed for Disease Perspective
Clinical Description Laboratory studies Delimitation from other disorders Follow-up study Family study
fixed false knowledge
delusion
Life story perspective includes
role of individual factors like background, life experience
Person responsible for defining clinical syndromes on the basis of patterns of symptom clusters, patterns of symptoms over time
Kraepelin
Low mood, sleep disturbance, loss of normal interests, guilt, worthlessness, fatigue, change in appetite –> primarily affective symptoms
Depression
Developed concept that trauma can be associated with later psychopathology
Freud
Developed the disease perspective –> can guess at prognosis, treatment
Thomas Sydenham
Two types of mood disorders
Depression
Mania
Cardinal symptoms:
Psychotic (delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thoughts + speech)
And: disorganized behavior, negative (lack of) symptoms
Schizophrenia
repetitive behaviors that a person feels compelled to do
Compulsions
Episodes of mania and of depression
Biopolar disorder
Behavioral perspective includes
motivated by physiologic drives, conditioned by fear/reward
persistent thoughts, worries, mental images that are distressing, cannot be suppressed
Obsessions
First disease associated with neuropath finding
Alzheimers disease
Interference with normal life activities by worries and behaviors
Obsessive-Compulsive disorder
Progressive decline in multiple domains of cognitive function over time
Alzheimers disease
Dimensional perspective includes
intelligence, temperament
Repeated attacks with a surge of intense fear with symptoms that result in avoidance
Panic disorder
