Defining Psychopathology

Question 1

What is Psychopathology?

Answer 1

the in-depth study of deviations of normal or everyday psychological or behaviour functioning

Question 2

What is Clinical Psychology?

Answer 2

the branch of psychology responsible for understanding and treating psychopathology

Question 3

what are demonic possession?

Answer 3

psychopathology causes personality changes leading to people to believe psychopathology was the cause of demonic spirits ‘possessing’ an individual

Question 4

what was the treatment for demonic possession

Answer 4

trepanning which is where making boreholes into individual skull with the belief that it would release the evil spirits

Question 5

what are asylums

Answer 5

there was a movement to bring those with mental disorders out of society by placing them in asylums as mental health was seen as a weakness

Question 6

What is the medical model

Answer 6

the movement towards human treatments for individuals with mental disorders; it attempts to come up with scientific explanations for psychopathology

Question 7

what is the somatogenic hypothesis

Answer 7

argues psychological problems is caused by biological issues in the body

Question 8

what are the problems with the medical model

Answer 8

reductionist - reduces the complexity of psychopathology
implies there is something wrong or broken with an individual leading to stigma around mental health

Question 9

what is the 4d’s of psychology

Answer 9

a diagnostic criteria for classifying disorders

Question 10

What is Deviance

Answer 10

behaviour that strays away from statistical norm or goes against social norms

Question 11

what is Dysfunction

Answer 11

behaviors that impairs social/occupational/education functioning

Question 12

what is distress

Answer 12

for individual: significant distress such as suicide ideations
for observer: causing distress to those who observe

Question 13

what is danger

Answer 13

behaviour that can harm to oneself or others e.g. drug taking or self-harming

Question 14

What is biological Model

Answer 14

abnormal behaviour is a result of biological dysfunction e.g. chemical imbalance or structural changes

Question 15

how does genetics help psychopathology

Answer 15

twins studies help discover whether MHC are caused by heritability or environment or both as if it was solely heritability the concordance would be 100

Question 16

what is the psychodynamic model

Answer 16

based on Freud’s work which suggests abnormal behaviour is due to unconscious conflict between ID and EGO and SUPEREGO developed during childhood

Question 17

what is the Behavioural model

Answer 17

abnormal behaviour is a consquence of maladaptive learning

Question 18

what is the cognitive model

Answer 18

abornormal behaviour is a consequence of dysfunctional beliefs and biased infomation processing

Question 19

what is the humanist model

Answer 19

if self awareness/ sense of life is developed then emotion distress and psychopathology can be resolved

Question 20

what is the social cultural factors in psychopathology

Answer 20

gender: big influence on the chances oh development of MHC
Culture: affects rate of expression of MHC
Ethnicity: creates barriers in treatment and rates of diagnosis
Socioeconomic status: significant risk factors affecting development of psychopathology