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Exam 1 Flashcards

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Medical Approach

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Directed toward treatment of identified diseases and disorders

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Psychodynamic Approach

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focus on symptoms and identifying the causes of symptoms

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Learning Approach

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Assumes that people learn adaptive and maladaptive functioning

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Social/group/community/institutional/organizational approaches

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focus on how the structure and function of social relationships contribute to problems in human behavior

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strength and normatively-based approaches

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focus is less on ends and more on cooperative means

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disease

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can be unfavarable environment factors anything that prevents a body part or organ from functioning

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illness

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someone own subjective perception of being unwell

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why is it important to consider the social environment?

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we cant look at the individual as an isolated being

our behavior effects the environment our environment effects the behavior

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temperament

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the differences in how people react in different situations and how people regulate their emotions and behaviors

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strengths-based approach

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The assumptions of the strengths perspective in social work. Importance of considering the clients strengthens and weakness into making a plan for them. Find the need and goal

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Multidimensional framework that focuses on integration of theory and scientific findings from these dimensions:

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Biological
Psychological
Social

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Biopsychosocial Approach

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People confront biological, psychological, and social demands that require effective human responses
all depend on each other

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adaptation

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is the ability to respond effectively to these demands on individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations

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developmental flexibility

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related to the capacity of humans to adapt and thrive in changing environments and is dependent on the flexibility of our institutions and our cultural heritage

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How do we enhance adaption?

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Expand or improve environment or providing knowledge or services to increase that persons incompetence ex:anger management

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ethnocentrisum

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our tendency to judge a certain person or cultural on our own cultural practices or beliefs ex: breast feeding children or disciple children

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social environment

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the expectations, motives, and incentives that shape and place limits on behavior that are constructed by definition by the people in your world

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the multidimensional framework used in this course is a perspective, not a ______

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theory

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dimensions for assessing human behavior in the social environment:

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Biophysical dimension
Psychological dimension
social dimension

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difference between theory and perspective

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perspective gives us a lens of how to view things through when we look at assessing human behavior and theory is more orderly set of statements or ideas that predict human behavior theory are more formal

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biophysical & biopsychosocial dimensions

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related to growth development

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social dimension

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social relationships

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psychological dimension

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mental process

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most important contributor to a persons behavior pattern

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socialization

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hypotheses

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looking at all of the dimensions to examine the ideology and rational explanation of a clients functioning

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critical inquiry

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critize or critque hypotheses

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spirituality

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subjective experience of a relationship to a universal power, higher power, or force

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social functioning

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refers to a clients ability to accomplish tasks necessary for daily living and to fulfill his or her major social roles

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Person-In-Environment

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designed to assess problems in social functioning

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4 places that we assess problems in social functioning:

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social role problems
environmental
mental disorders
physical disorders

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stress

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any event in which environmental demands informal demands or both tax or exceed the adaptive resources of an individual, a social system, or tissue system

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physical response to stress= GAS Hans Selye

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Alarm-(flight or fight)
Resistance-body tries to resist stress; bodily defenses erode
Exhaustion-arousal and capacity for resistance decrease

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crisis

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challenge or tuning point

people will respond differently to a crisis depending on environmental support and psychological support

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life span perspective

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changes that occur over the entire lifespan

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plasticity

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human capacity for change

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life course perspective

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understanding changes in patterns of life

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funnel theory

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people capacity to learn and change decreases as they age

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Transition

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change from one stage to another

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trajectory

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specific path or line of development a person follows to their life outcome

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turning point

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something that will cause trajectory to change

41
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3 layers of pervention

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primary prevention
secondary prevention
Tertiary prevention

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primary pervention

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stopping something from happening in the first place ex: education immunization things that we give people upfront so that we don’t have to deal with a problem or disorder occurring in the first place (Best Route to take)

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secondary pervention

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early intervention

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tertiary prevention

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maintaining something and keeping it from becoming worse often times sounds like treatment

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Natural Selection

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selects traits that would be useful to a specimen survival

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evolutionary theory

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interplay or interaction in the social and physical that they were designed to deal with. how things changed over time

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variation

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difference between individual organisms that can affect their functioning

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adaptive functions

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functions or process that have happened over time in order to help people adapt to their environment or survival ex: people who live near the equator

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genetic altruism

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genes use themselves in order to be continued on in future generations

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social neuroscience

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nervous, endocrine, and immune systems are involved in socio cultural processes

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cells, tissues, organs,systems

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cells are the smallest units of living matter, when cells group together tissues are formed tissues combine to form organ organ combine for systems

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hyperplastic growth

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increase in the number of cells

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hypertrophic growth

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increase in size of the cells

54
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mitosis

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body cell reproduces

46 chromosomes

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meiosis

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cell division related to reproductive cells 23 chromosomes

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single- gene disorders

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(inherited) huntington;s chorea, sickle cell, cystic fibrosis, tay-sachs

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X chromosome-linked disorders

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hemophila

Lesch-Nyhan syndrome

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multifactorial disorders

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(mutli factors related)
cancer
neural-tube defects

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down syndrome

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also known as Trisomy 21
as a result of an extra 21 chromosome
advanced maternal age

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frontal lobe

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body movements, thinking, feeling, imagning, decision-making

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parietal lobe

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integrating sensory information

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occipital lobe

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receiving and sending visual information

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temporal lobe

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emotions and motivation

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medulla oblongata

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helps control heart rate and some reflexes

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cerebellum

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related to help control sense of balance

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parasympathetic nervous system

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allows you to conserve that energy in a threatening situation

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sympthatic nervous system

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prepares your body to receive or prepare for a threat idea of flight or fight

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Neurons

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are also called nerves cells
consist of a cell body, axon, and dendrites
convey information from one cell to the other

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gilia cells

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also called supporting cells

play several important roles in the running of the nervous system

70
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4 stages of development

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proliferation stage
migration stage
differentation stage
myelination stage

71
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when does the brain have its 3 major growth spurts

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occur last trimester of pregnancy, during the first year of life, and just prior to puberty

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proliferation stage

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development of new cells

73
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migration stage

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cells divide and move throughout body

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differentiation stage

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axons and dendrites are formed

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mylenation stage

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axons become insulated to help signals travel more quickly through the body

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benign tumors

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self contained tumors

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malignant tumors

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tumors that are spreading

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allostasis

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capacity for achieving stability through change

79
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allostatic load

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the price paid by the body to maintain its systems

80
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cardiovascular system problems

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congenital heart disease (happens at birth)
mitral valve prolapse (confused with anxiety)
hypertension( high blood pressure)
myocardinal infection(heart attack)

81
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respiratory system problems

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bronchial asthma( allergic response)
acute bronchitis(bacterial infection)
emphysema/COPD( physical damage to structures)
82
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hyperthyroidism

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over active thyroid gland

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hypothyroidism

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under active thyroid gland

84
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Diabetes

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related to the insufficient production or inadequate use of insulin
Type I Juvenile-onset
Type II adult-onset

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