Exam 5 Flashcards
Schizophrenia Treatment: Lobotomy
- connection severed between frontal lobes, rest brain: primary side effect decrease in functioning, IQ
- popular until development of antipsychotic meds (50s)
Schizophrenia Treatment: Antipsychotic Meds
- thorazine
- blocks dopamine: decreases levels of available dopamine
- reduce severity of positive symptoms (typically cause the most grief) not negative symptoms
- decrease violent behavior, calming effect
- 30% do not benefit; 40% poor compliance (don’t take meds)–>works for 70% (insight should return if meds start working
- why wouldn’t they take their meds? delusions (persecution); no insight when theyre actively psychotic-don’t think they have a problem, why would they need them; sometimes you forget; you think you’re better; unstable lives-chaos in environment
Side Effects of Antipsychotic Meds
- extrapyramidal (dysfunctions=nerves descending from brain to spinal motor neurons)
- resemble parkinson’s disease; affects motor movement
- tremors; shuffling gait; drooling; dyskinesia (abnormal motion of voluntary, involuntary muscles)
Schizophrenia Treatment: Atypical Antipsychotics
- treat both positive and negative symptoms in addition to dopamine affect
- Haldol
- serotonin receptors: frontal lobes
- those resistant to traditional meds, increase cognitive functioning
- fewer motor side effects
- compliance still poor
- side effects: weight gain
Somatic Delusion/Hallucination
- he keeps touching his hair, maybe thinks something is there
- woman believes sisters and nurses are sucking her dry; literally sucking her insides out: if she actually feels it (and she does) that’s a hallucination
Personality Disorders: Extreme Versions of Personality Traits
- stable enduring patterns of behavior, thinking and perception
- occur across situations and lifelong
- when it comes to personality disorders we do not give children (under 18) these diagnoses (problems that are normal developmental occurrences for kids can be problematic for adults)
Diagnosis of Personality Disorders
- diagnostic interviews: talking to therapist directly and therapist is asking questions
- personality inventories: pen and paper tests where you’re answering questionnaires
- may depend on which personality disorder you have that determines which may be better suited-they’re equal in terms of effectiveness/methodology
General Criteria for Personality Disorders
- inflexible and maladaptive-think you’re doing something good for yourself but you’re really screwing yourself over-cutting off your nose to spite your face; difficult for person to change
- causes significant functional impairment (all areas of life-school, work, relationships with other people)
- causes significant subjective distress (exception ASPD)
Features of Personality Disorders
- over half diagnosed have 2 PDs; share characteristics
- individuals rarely seek treatment
- no effective treatment for most PDs
- 10-13% of population; 20% of college students (were overrepresented in one personality disorder)
DSM 3 Clusters
- Odd or Eccentric
- Dramatic, Emotional, Erratic
- Anxious or Fearful
Schizoid
- detachment from social relationships
- asocial=avoid interactions, activities that involve others (don’t like being with other people)
- appears cold/aloof; restricted range of emotions
Paranoid
- a lot like persecution but no delusions or hallucinations
- excessively mistrustful and suspicious of others without justification
- belief that others are lying, cheating
- emotional detachment and hostility (think you’re trying to rip them off)
Schizotypal
- closest to schizophrenia
- socially isolated, excessive social anxiety-want to be with others but have high social anxiety
- odd behaviors=speech and affect
- unusual beliefs, magical thinking (not to the point of delusions)
- genetically related to schizophrenia, episodes not as frequent, intense
Antisocial Personality Disorder
could make you a good criminal or CEO-most common treatment is jail-no good treatment for this; sometimes age out of it while in jail
- pervasive (ongoing) disregard for the law and rights of others
- tendency to lie, steal, not fulfill responsibilities
- lack of empathy (feel others pain-share with narcissism), remorse (don’t feel sorry)
- impulsive and entitled (feel like you deserve it because you’re awesome-shares with narcissism)
- primarily male: aggressive
Genetic Causes ASPD
- impulsivity: doesn’t think before acting
- cortical under-arousal: seeks stimulation (not necessarily a bad thing-depends how it’s channeled)
- weak behavioral inhibition system (BIS-tells you to stop doing something when you’re going to get in trouble): don’t stop when facing punishment
Environmental Causes ASPD
- antisocial parents: inattentive, coercive and inconsistent discipline
- deviant peers, violent community
Borderline Personality Disorder
- not psychotic
- unstable, distorted sense of self
- difficulty regulating emotions-feels things very intensely and can’t seem to regulate things how she needs to (Becky got in physical fight with mom-scratching, clawing, breaking dishes, throws a chocolate cake, threatens to slit wrists all because her mom said no to going out with her friend)
- feel damaged, worthless (overlap with depression)
- love-hate relationship, idealize–>wants to be with others (don’t want to hurt you/work against you); anger, impulsivity, frequent mood swings=push others away (not in an asocial manner); may start to panic that they’re being left or neglected which may result in more intense reaction that drives people away (analogous to a lifeguard being drowned by the person they’re trying to save)
- idealize you and then when you disappoint them they react very negatively-often “live” at these extremes; fear of abandonment
- impulsive, risky behavior: often engage in suicidal or self-injurious behavior-other possible reasons than trying to end your life
- primarily female
Reasons For Self-Injurious Behavior
- cathartic-a way to feel your emotions if you were not previously
- control-a way to get back into control
- makes them feel alive
- punishment
- communication-way to nonverbally let people know you’re not okay
Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder
- DBT: form of CBD
- first focus on feelings currently; lot of focus on emotional dysregulation
- coping strategies to deal with emotions
- emotions aren’t reality–>emotional stability
- very intensive therapy; lots of homework and regular sessions and therapist is often available 24 hours
Causes of BPD
- biological=genetic link to mood disorders (depression)
- environmental=abuse, trauma during childhood
Histrionic Personality Disorder
- pattern of excessive emotional expression and attention-seeking
- excessive need for approval
- inappropriately seductive (want people to fall in love with them)
- rapidly shifting emotions, very dramatic, theatrical (everything they feel they feel so strongly)
- primarily female
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- grandiose, extremely exaggerated sense of self-importance
- lacks empathy for others, but needs constant admiration from them (but won’t give any back)
- entitled, arrogant, jealous
- causes: did parents spoil and not teach empathy-if you spoil your kids, the rest of the world won’t and they’ll just end up being assholes to you
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- to a moderate degree can be helpful
- no obsessions or compulsive behaviors
- fixated on things being done “the right way” (rigid)
- perfectionist, controlling
- can be useful as a college student: always get assignments done, always want to do the best
George-ASPD
- disregard for law because he’s a drug dealer
- said he put a gun to his father’s head and hit his mother-seemed like he was bragging=no remorse
- said he didn’t care about his family
- people lie so have to take some of what he says with a grain of salt
- said he didn’t have any feelings for anybody-lacks empathy
- said he lied all the time and stoel all the time-disregard for other people’s rights and property (steals dad’s knives and his mom’s valuable comic books for money)
- loves animals, would never do anything to animals but would to humans
- beat a guy up because he talked to george
- says he would never sexually assault a woman (he has sisters, says he respects women); yet he went to jail for assaulting a woman-she got in his face
- compared himself to a bomb and when he blows up he will probably hurt a lot of people-said he’s not going out without taking anyone with him