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What are 3 characteristics of abnormal psychopathology

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Unusual, distress, and interference

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Details about unusual

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The more unusual a thought or belief is, the more likely to in up in abnormal category.

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Details about distress

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When you cause you or someone else distress or uncomfortableness but you want it to go away you are under the abnormal category.

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Details about interference

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When thought or behavior INTERFERE with everyday life (holding a job is hard or in and out of jail). Falls under abnormal category.

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What is the Medical side of abnormality?

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Mental problems and biological abnormality that causes abnormal psychology. (Used by psychologists)

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Psychosocial model of abnormality

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How your relationships influence mental health, thought patterns, cope with stress. Used by therapist (for depression and anxiety)

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Anxiety

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Lots of worrying, high levels of fear or panic.
- panic disorders- anxiety level rise for no reason
- phobic disorders- uncontrollable fear for unharmful things
- OCD- anxiety and a behavior used to make disorder manageable

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What is OCD?

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Obsession- persistent unwanted thoughts
Compulsive- a need to perform behavior ( irresistible)

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What is the medical explanation behind anxiety disorders?

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This happens when you have an abnormal amount of neurotransmitters (serotonin and dopamine) and neuron sensitivity (overreaction to neurotransmitters)

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What helps with anxiety disorders?

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Therapy and medication

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Schizophrenia

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Disturbance of thought; disturbance spills over into behavior, relationships, perceptions
-diagnosed usually from the ages 15-25
-most institutionalized disorder
- high number of homeless (usually cannot live alone)
- high suicide rate

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Symptoms of schizophrenia

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Irrational thought, distorted perceptions, behavior adapriveness

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What is irrational thought?

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Delusions; false beliefs that are clearly out of touch with reality. Can be about harm done to you (dangerous).

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What are distorted perceptions?

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Hallucinations; inaccurate sensory interpretations. What you see, hear, smell, touch do not match reality.
- voices may influence behavior

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What is behavior adaptiveness?

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Losing ability to do social life behaviors.
Language problems are big here (you forget how to put sentences together). Also results in poor health, loss of emotion.

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Why does schizophrenia happen?

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-abnormal gene function
- complication during pregnancy
- high stress environments
- high levels of dopamine

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What is major depressive disorder?

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Known as clinical depression
- hopelessness, loss of interest, and sadness
- how they feel or think all the time
- weight change
-diagnosed usually from 18-25
- in women more than men

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Why do more women have clinical depression?

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  • have many different hormones that are affected
  • men are less diagnosed
  • women have more emotional based issues
  • postpartum depression
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Where does clinical depression come from?

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  • passed down
  • cognitive disorder
  • abnormal neurotransmitter levels
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What is bipolar disorder?

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Form of depression
- mania: high energy and excitement, no sleep, bad decisions
- women go through mania quicker then men

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Why does bipolar disorder happen?

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  • usually inherited
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What are the different psychotherapies?

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  1. Cognitive therapy
  2. Behavior therapy
  3. Client therapy
  4. CBT
  5. Biomedical therapy
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What is cognitive therapy?

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Helps people with adjustment issues (school stress, couple counseling)

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Goal of cognitive therapy

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Helps clients recognize thinking errors and get them to understand those thoughts aren’t helping

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Selective abstraction

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Falls under cognitive therapy; only focusing on the negative aspects of something

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Overgeneralizing

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Falls under cognitive therapy; when you blow things out of proportion
Ex: I forgot my moms birthday so I think I’m a horrible person)

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Downfalls of cognitive therapy?

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  • therapist aren’t interested in how you feel. Believes emotions are side affects.
  • limited to situations it can be used in
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Behavior therapy

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Belief that the cause of your problems have been learned and are bad habits.

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What is the goal of behavior therapy?

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  • therapist want to understand learning principles to stop doing damaging behaviors
  • therapist do not care why you do this behavior just how to stop it
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Treatments used for behavior therapy

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-Counter conditioning: relies on substituting bad behavior for something else.
- operant:use rewards and punishers to change how someone behaves

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Problems with behavior therapy

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-Only treats behavior, not cause ( not interested in why)
- used w people with substance abuse (may trade one habit for another bad one).
- not permanent and may resurface as another disorder later

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What is client therapy?

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-Less about a specific way to change and more of a discussion about why you do what you do.
-inconsistency between how you see yourself and how you act

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What is the goal of client therapy?

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-Finding out why you do behaviors that make you uncomfortable
- therapist listens and it’s usually the client doing self evaluation

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What tools do therapist use during client therapy?

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Empathy and unconditional positive regard (no judging)

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Problems with client therapy

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-doesn’t work. It’s minor to see mental change in patients.

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What is CBT?

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Combination of therapies. Adds compassion and emotional support, gives homework to patients, and wants the ways of therapy to become the patients lifestyle

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Does CBT work?

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Does a good job at helping people deal with sadness beliefs and anxiety disorders.

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Biomedical therapy

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Sees mental illness as another expression of a physical or psychological abnormality.

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Goal of biomedical therapy?

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Reduce severity of symptoms, not completely eliminate them.

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What are some biomedical treatments?

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-drug therapy (antidepressants and antipsychotics): tend to reduce feelings of depression but takes about a month.
-anti anxiety: intended to reduce tension and stress

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Problems with biomedical therapy

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  • addictive
  • overdose problems
  • interactions with other drugs
  • overly prescribed by family physicians
42
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What is lithium and what’s it do

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Used to control mood swings. Shortens the cycle of manic symptoms and how long they are. Also lowers suicide risks.

43
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Side effects of lithium

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  • chance of heart rhythm
  • influence kidney function over time
  • thyroid regulation
  • weight gain
  • toxic if dosage is too high
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Side effects of antipsychotic

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Dyskinesia: problem with motor movement uncontrollability. Can lead to not being able to sit down.
- can produce symptoms worse then what you started with

45
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What is electroconvulsive therapy

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Electricity is sent through your brain to create a cortisol seizure
- last resort if nothing else work
- works quickly
- five treatments every other day for it to work
- no pain

46
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Side effects of electroconvulsive therapy

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-Short term memory loss
- difficulty learning new things (temporary)
- confusion (temporary)

47
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Why isn’t electroconvulsive therapy used more often?

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The history scares people. Also media (movies and shows) always represented it in a bad way so people are nervous.

48
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What is psycho surgery?

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When you actively destroy brain tissues with the goal of symptom reduction (irreversible)
- occurs for last resort (medication doesn’t work)

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Problems with psycho surgery

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  • inappropriately practiced (by people without medical license and people just wanting control over someone)
  • people would appear like potted plants where they would no longer have emotions
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Why isn’t psychosurgery common?

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Lithium took its place and this procedure also makes people nervous.

51
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What DISORDERS was psychosurgery used for?

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-OCD
-MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER
- EPILEPSY

52
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What makes a good therapist?

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Not if they have a PHD but if they have a relationship with their patient. Each patient has a different view of the person they are talking to and just need to find the right one.

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What does ADHD stand for?

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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

54
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When is ADHD most commonly diagnosed?

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School-aged children

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Problems with ADHD

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Difficulty to focus on tasks and follow instructions. Can also lead to problems at school and home.

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Why are children with ADHD know as “problem children”?

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Despite their intentions, they struggle to comply with adults instructions and are labeled as problem children

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How many children are affected by ADHD?

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3%-7% of children are affected by ADHD and 65% of children are diagnosed

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What is hyperactivity?

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The hyperactive symptom cluster describes children who are perpetually in motion even during times when they are expected to be still.

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What is impulsivity?

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Describes difficulty in delaying response and acting without considering the repercussions of behavior.

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Description of inattentive symptoms

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-difficulty with organization and task follow through
- tendency to be distracted by external stimuli

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How to distinguish between normal and disordered behavior?

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  1. Symptoms must significantly impair the child’s functioning in important life domains (school or home)
    -repeating a grade or being suspended are usual factors
  2. The symptoms must be inappropriate for the child’s developmental level.
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What other disorders to people with ADHD experience?

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Depression, learning disorders, anxiety, and oppositional defiant disorder.
-when older, may abuse alcohol, drugs, and other adverse outcomes.

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Adult negative outcome of ADHD

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-depression
-substance abuse
- poor work performance
-divorce
-early parenthood from highrisk sexual behavior
-obesity
- impairment in driving ability

64
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Why do children develop behavior disorders?

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Most experts believe this to be a genetic disorder. This is linked to neurotransmitters and serotonin and dopamine. Can also be diet.

65
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What’s to treat ADHD.

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-medication (adderall)
-parenting management training

66
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Side effects of adderall

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-growth and appetite suppression
- increased blood pressure
- insomnia
- changes in mood

67
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What is psychopharmacology?

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The study of how drugs affect the brain and behavior.

68
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What is pharmacokinetics?

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How the body handles the drugs we take.

69
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Drug metabolism

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Involves a breakdown of psychoactive drugs and this occurs primarily in the liver.

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What are the problems with psychotropic drugs and metabolism?

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-grapefruit juice- if drugs are in the body, the juice will make the drug levels build to potentially toxic levels.
*valium, Luvox

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