Exam Flashcards
Habituation
Normalise to anxiety
Exposure response prevention therapy
OCD maintained through avoidance learning exposure hierarchy by doing what will make you feel even worse while vocalizing and embracing thoughts
Key question
Are mental health drugs being over prescribed in the UK
Agree with key question
-dt beneficial as less time ndcost consuming
-those who have biological cause
-pots team shows better than placebo
Disagree of key question
-drugs have side effects
-drugs only work if taken
-disorder may be due to social factors
-pots show therapy better than DT
Rosenhan aim
Test reliability of mental health diagnosis to see if could be told between sane insane
Sample rosenhan
8 patients in 12 hospitals in the us in 5 states by just faking one symptom
Procedure of rosenhan
Clinical interviews and reportedearig voices and wen admitted behaved normally and request to be discharged
Took notepad and pen to record what they heard and saw in covert
Dispose meds given and friendly and polite
Rosenhan 2
Agree to second study but aware seeking for 3 months an given liver type scale to assess patient on10 point for whether ill or pseudo patient
Results of rosenhan
All took with 11 sz and 1 manic depressed
Average of 19 days before released
Staff abuseto patients and other disposal of meds 15 a day
Depersonalization
Results of rosenhan 2
Sent no pseudo in so all patients real
Out 139/ 41 rated as pseudo
Conclusion of rosenhan
Diagnosis tools like dsm and icd unreliable
Posiives of rosenhan
ecological validity but field experiment
-application
Generalizability as different types of hospitals used
Negatives of rosenhan
unrepresentative
-unethical
Reliability
Cross cultural
the systematic comparisons of different cultures that aim t understand to understand variations of human behavior as it is influenced by cultural context
-outsider
Examin of cross culture
gottesman40 European countries
-issues of representation
-validity
-littlewood and lipsedge - country affects
-defining abnormality
Family intervention therapy
improvin communication, solving family issues wiht practical and emotional support and aims to treat distressin 4 Ds
Predictive validity
Try to predict future behaviors of people with mhds but it isnt Sam was physical and should help recover or if symptoms will continue
Construct validity
Mental health disorders can overlap it isn’t a fixed construct as mental health diagnosis not just one symptom
Aetiological validity
For each mhd has the same cause of diagnosis so occurs in same way
OCD
Obsessive compulsive disorder is where you have reoccurring thoughts and behaviors that cannot be controlled
Obsessions
Unwanted ideas, thoughts and images
Compulsions
Recurring behaviors r actions
Dsm - 5 of ocd
thoughts and actions must occur for 1 hour and 2 weeks
- attempt to neutralize thought with action
- -disturbance not explained better by another disorder
Common ocd
cleansing ocd
-order ocd
-contamination ocd
Roominations
Bad thoughts on a cycle
Strengths family intervention therapy
relapse rates in nccmh found 26% unlike standard of 50%