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Exam 3 PSY 395 Flashcards

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What is a sexual dysfunction?

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Disorders involving either a disruption of the sexual response cycle or pain during sex

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Describe the sexual response cycle

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desire –> excitement/arousal –> organism –> resolution

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what is the name of the disorder where a man has a lack of interest in sexual activity and fantasy?

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Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder

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what is the name of the disorder for females that have a lack of interest in sexual activity and fantasy?

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Female Sexual Interest/ Arousal Disorder

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what are factors of Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder and what are treatment plans for it?

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Factors: insufficient engorgement/lubrication

Treatment: Couple’s therapy focused on communication
and Sensate Focus Techniques

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inability to achieve/maintain erection

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Erectile Disorder (ED)

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treatment for Erectile Disorders?

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medications, sensate focus techniques + Paradoxical Instruction

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Female Orgasmic Disorder

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women with difficulty reaching orgasm and other contributing factors

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treatment for female orgasmic disorder?

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education about female sexuality, self-stimulation instructions

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Delayed Ejaculation

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  • men with difficulty reaching orgasm
    Treatment: similar to erectile dysfunction and female orgasmic disorder. May also include cues from masturbation into partnered sex
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Premature Ejaculation

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man reaches orgasm before, on, or shortly after penetration

Treatment: special condoms, squeeze technique, start/stop technique

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sexual dysfunctions with pain - Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder

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female specific condition involving at least 1 of the following:
- difficulty with penetration during intercourse
- tensing or tightening of pelvic floor muscles during attempted penetration
- anxiety about pain associated with penetration
- marked pain during attempts at vaginal penetration

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Treatment for Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder

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  • can be associated with injuries, medical conditions, and trauma
  • behavioral treatment includes physical therapy and learning to control vaginal muscles and gradual exposure to penetration
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lifelong dysfunction

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existed, without relief, since the person’s earliest sexual experiences

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acquired dysfunction

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develops after at least one period of normal functioning

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generalized dysfunction

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present in all sexual situations at the time of diagnosis

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situational dysfunction

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occurs only in certain situations or with certain partners (ex. when under stress)

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what is the general risk for sexual dysfunction by gender?

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Women are at higher risk for dysfunction in all except for climaxing too early

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Paraphilias

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Recognized patterns of sexuality that deviate markedly from norms
- pattern or object becomes a central focus person’s arousal and gratification, and causes distress or impairment or causes this to someone else

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Fetishistic Disorder - Paraphilia

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reliance on inanimate objects or on a body part for sexual gratification

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Transvestite Disorder - Paraphilia

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sexual gratification through dressing in the clothes of another gender

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Exhibitionistic Disorder - Paraphilia

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sexual gratification through display of one’s genitals to an involuntary observer
- having sex openly in a public space

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Voyeuristic Disorder - Paraphilia

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sexual gratification through clandestine observation of other people’s sexual activities or sexual anatomy
- secretly watch someone undress

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Sexual Sadism Disorder - Paraphilia

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sexual gratification through infliction of pain and/or humiliation on others
- forcing someone to have sex

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Sexual Masochism Disorder - Paraphilia

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sexual gratification through pain and/or humiliation inflicted on oneself
- being dominated (MF)
- Being tied up (F)
- being spanked or whipped

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Frotteuristic Disorder - Paraphilia

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sexual gratification through touching and rubbing against a non-consenting person

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Pedophilic Disorder - Paraphilia

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sexual gratification, on the part of the adult, through sexual contact with prepubescent children
- must have age separation of at least 5 years
- perpetrator must be at least 16 years old
- child must be under 13 years of age

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Behavioral Treatment for Paraphilia’s

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stimulus satiation = exposure to paraphilia stimuli immediately after orgasm (only when not aroused)
orgasmic reconditioning = switch to normative sexual fantasies or material right before orgasm
covert sensitization = imagine worst possible scenario during arousal

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Medication Treatment for Paraphilia’s

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  • reduce androgen activity - Depo Provera, Androcur
  • Telstar (triptorelin) - inhibits gonadotropin secretion
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Gender Dysphoria

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  • marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender
  • dysphoria causes substantial distress
  • desire to live as experienced gender
  • categorized based on age (children vs adolescent and adult)
  • less than .1% in adults
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gender affirmative treatment

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treatment making one’s body more consistent with gender identity
- hormones, hormone blockers, facial surgery, breast removal/augmentation, electrolysis

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typical requirements for gender affirming surgery (WPATH guidance document)

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  1. detailed mental health evaluation
    - affirm long-standing diagnosis, rule out contraindications
    - often including a duration of psychotherapy
  2. hormonal therapy to initiate changes for 1 year
  3. living full-time in experienced gender for 1 year
  4. capacity for informed consent including age of majority
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Outcomes of treatment

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  • 80% with gender dysphoria improve with biological treatments
  • 70% satisfaction rate with gender affirming surgery (small amount regret)
  • satisfaction increases as time spent living as experienced gender prior to surgery increases
  • psychotherapy alone does not reduce gender dysphoria ( AKA conversion therapy)
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what causes gender variation?

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neuroscience = monozygotic twins are concordant for GD
examples of CNS differences + blood flow patterns, reaction to strong odors based on gender identity, area of hypothalamus (BTA)

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causes of gender dysphoria

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intersex conditions - biological disorder of sex development
- partial androgen insensitivity
- congenital androgen hyperplasia (too much testosterone produced by adrenal gland)

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ethical implications of gender dysphoria in DSM 5 is controversial

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  • claim transgender and nonbinary people deviate from cultural norms
  • treatment availability and insurance coverage is dependent on verification of gender dysphoria as diagnosis
  • prevalence of mental health rates, suicide, change
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schizophrenia

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psychotic disorder in which deterioration of functioning is marked by severe symptoms related to
- deficits in cognition/language
- distorted perception
- abnormal mood
-bizarre behavior

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delusions of persecution

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disorder when a person has an unfounded belief that other intend to harm them (targeted, spied on, government tracking, stealing, etc)

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delusions of reference

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someone believes that neutral events have a personal significance or are directed at them (others are observing you, communicating with you, referenced in the media, movie/song has a message for you)

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delusions of grandeur

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false belief that a person is powerful, wealthy, famous, or other extraordinary traits
- magical skills, reading minds
-immune to injury or disease
- special connection to aliens

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loose associations

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ideas jump from one to another, leading the person further and further away from the original topic

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poverty of speech

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mental dysfunction that involves a decrease in the amount of speech a person produces
- take longer to talk
- use fewer words

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neologisms

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the use of new words and phrases, often formed by combining parts of two or more regular words the have little if any translation
- belly bad luck
- tie father
- littlehood
-goodship

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clanging

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the pairing of words that have no relation to one another beyond the fact that they rhyme or sound alike
- repeat rhyme words
-puns or overuse puns

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word salad

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words and phrases are combined in what appears to be a completely disorganized fashion
- purple elephant blanket tree sky yesterday walking pizza

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selective attention

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inability to confine extraneous data to the edge of consciousness
- focusing on one thing while ignoring everything else

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hallucinations

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perceptions that occur in the absence of any appropriate external stimuli

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blunted affect

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patient shows little emotion

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flat affect

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patient shows no emotion

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avolition

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lack of motivation and the inability to initiate or engage in goal directed behaviors
- disorganized
- difficulty starting/finishing tasks
- zoning out

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catatonic features

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pronounced negative symptoms
- no reposes to external stimuli
- marked lack of movement and posturing self against gravity

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catatonic stupor

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complete immobility, usually accompanied by mutism

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waxy flexibility

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if someone gets moved, they have a slight resistance to being moved and will remain in the new position with their muscles tense. they look like a wax figure

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stereotypy

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persistent repetition of an action
- hand flapping, body rocking, toe walking, etc

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echopraxia

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condition where a person involuntarily imitates another person’s actions, facial expressions, or words

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epidemiology of Schizophrenia

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-1% lifetime prevalence
-.7% 1 month prevalence
- prevalence is double amount AAs
- 75% new cases occur in ages 16-25

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predictors that give a worse prognosis for schizophrenia

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slower decline, poor premorbid adjustment, absence of delusions of persecution and grandeur

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brief psychotic episode

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symptoms present < 1 month

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schizophreniform disorder

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symptoms present >1 month, <6 months

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schizophrenia diagnosis time

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symptoms present >6 months

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neuroscience perspective of Schizophrenia

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  • schizophrenic-like conditions run in families
  • adoptees are more like biological parents than adoptive
  • brain imaging studies (small frontal/temporal lobe)
    1. prenatal brain injury - virus during pregnancy
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biochemical theories of schizophrenia

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  1. dopamine hypothesis
    - associated with excess activity of the brain that uses dopamine as a neurotransmitter
    - may be excessive number of dopamine receptors that behave abnormally
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cognitive theories of schizophrenia

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agree that biology sets the stage for the disorder which can lead to loose associations and deficits in selective attention
- dysfunctional interpretations =

unpredictable, strange experience – attribution of meaning to experience – simple delusion – elaboration – construction of delusional system

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sociocultural theory of schizophrenia

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stigma and social labeling, family dysfunction
- emotional over-involvement that is highly critical, disorganized communication that prevents family from having shared understanding

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diathesis - stress model

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-no solitary explanation can account for all the variance
- genetic or biological predisposition PLUS environmental/relational stressor(s) = schizophrenia

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treatment for schizophrenia

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  1. psychopharmacology
    - neuroleptics can happen as a result of taking psychotics for a long time - Parkinson’s and tar dive diskinesia
    - other antipsychotics can be more effective but cause weight gain or very low white blood cell count
  2. social skills training, family interventions and vocational training can be helpful additions to medication
  3. cognitive behavioral therapy
    - learn patterns of symptoms, challenge hallucinations, techniques for dealing with unpleasant symptoms
  4. community-based management
    - short hospitalizations, day treatment programs, care in mental health centers,
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personality disorder

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enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture
- pervasive/inflexible
- onset in adolescence or early adulthood
- maladaptive and/or cause serious personal distress

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Odd/Eccentric

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Paranoid PD, Schizotypal PD, Schizoid PD

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Dramatic/Emotional

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Antisocial PD, Borderline PD, Histrionic PD, Narcissistic PD

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Anxious/Fearful

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Avoidant PD, Dependent PD, Obsessive-compulsive PD

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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pervasive distrust and suspicious of others
- expects that others will seek harm, preoccupied with potential disloyalty of others, hesitant to confide in others
- Dwight

few friends

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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acute discomfort with reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior
- odd beliefs, magical thinking, unusual speech patterns, social anxiety, behavior and appearance is odd
- relatives are more likely to have schizophrenia
- Willy Wonka

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Schizoid PD

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severely restricted range of emotions that is notably associated with social detachment
- uninterested in social connections, seems detached, indifferent to praise/criticism
- Sheldon and Amy

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Antisocial PD

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a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others
- behavioral problems as a kid
- lack of responsibility, irritable, aggressiveness
- reckless/impulsive behavior
- serious lack of empathy or remorse
- The Joker

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Borderline PD

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a pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, image, and affects
- difficulty in establishing secure self-identity, rely on close friends
- distrust of others and fear of abandonment
- impulsive and self destructive behavior

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histrionic PD

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a pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking as indicated by
- center of attention
- self dramatization, theatrically, exaggerate emotions
- uses physical appearance to draw attention
- inappropriate sexually seductive/provacative

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narcissistic personality disorder

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a grandiose sense of grandiosity, self importance, lack of empathy
- need to be admired, entitled, arrogant
- self-centered

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Avoidant PD

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a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
- severely socially withdrawn, avoidant of social criticism/rejection, shows restraint with intimate relationships
- personally unappealing, socially inept
- more debilitating than social anxiety disorder

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dependent personality disorder

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excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behavior and fears of separation

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obsessive-compulsive PD

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excessive preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control that is maladaptive
- preoccupied with details, rules, lists, organization, or schedules,
- shows perfectionism that interfered with task completion
- excessively devoted to work/productivity over leisure

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psychodynamic perspective of PDs

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character disorders - disturbances in early relationships, cannot manage conflicts

focuses on insight into defenses and relational patterns

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behavioral perspective of PDs

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PD’s result of learning, modeling

involves new learning, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness

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cognitive perspective of PDs

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faulty schemas, altering schemas

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Neuroscience perspective PDs

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genes and personality

drug treatment, some PDs respond well to antipsychotics

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competency to stand trial (CST)

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  • questions the defendant’s mental state at the time of the trial
  • ability to assist legal counsel at the time of the trial and understand charges against them
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the insanity defense

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-defendant admits to having committed the crime
- pleads not guilty due to mental disturbance
- claims he or she was not morally responsible at the time of the crime
- sanity here becomes a legal term
- questions their state at the time of the offense

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the M-Naugthen Rule

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having a mental illness is not equivalent to insanity
- means one could not appreciate “the nature or quality” of their actions as being against the law or did not know that they were wrong

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Irresistible impulse test

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legal doctrine that allows a defense to be found not guilty by reason of insanity if they can prove that a mental illness prevented them from controlling their actions

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American Law Institute’s Model Penal Code of 1962

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person is not responsible if at time of conduct person lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate criminality of conduct of to conform conduct to requirements of law

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civil commitment

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individuals who have been admitted involuntarily to a psychiatric facility because others decided they were disturbed enough to require hospitalization

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procedures for civil commitment

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in NY state: 2 physicians agree that a person needs treatment and poses threat to self or others (60 days)
- right to trial, right to counsel
- clear and convincing evidence

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standards for commitment

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definition of dangerousness, determination of dangerousness

false positive - an unjustified commitment
false negative - a failure to commit a person when commitment is justified and necessary
- false positive cannot be easily detected, false neg can

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the thank you proposition

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person will be grateful later, assume positive result and no negative side effects

94
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case against civil commitment

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denial of liberty without committing a crime, perhaps more problematic when person is not actively psychotic

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the right to receive treatment

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must provide an individualized treatment program for each patient, skilled staff in sufficient numbers to administer such treatment, and a humane psychological and physical environment

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the right to refuse treatment

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issues surrounding competency and informed consent, cannot refuse “routine” treatment

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APA, professional ethics code, two sections

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general principles and enforceable standards

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beneficence and nonmaleficence

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do good and do not harm

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fidelity and responsibility

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be faithful to commitments and trustworthy

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integrity

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be accurate, honest and truthful

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justice

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fairness and equity

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respect for people’s rights and dignity

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honor worth and right of all people

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duty to warn/duty to protect

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breach of confidentiality with client in order to protect someone potentially at risk

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multiple relationship

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occurs when a psychologist is in a professional role with a person and at the same time is in another role with the same person, at the same time is in a relationship closely associated with or related to the person with whom the psychologist has the professional relationship, or promises to enter into another relationship in the future with the person or a person closely associated with or related to the person

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when are dual relationships unethical?

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psychologists are required to avoid dual relationships that could compromise objectivity, competence or effectiveness, exploit/harm someone
- ethics code specifically mentions sexual relationships with clients, students, supervises, and research participants

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