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What are paraprofessionals?

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They aren’t qualified but can help bridge the gap in demand

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Interpersonal therapy?

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Originally for depression
Short term
Strengthens social skills, coping and conflict

Can also be used for substance abuse and eating disorders

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TFT?

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Thought field therapy

Thinking of your fear whilst having acupuncture

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EMDR?

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Eye movement desensitisation and repressing

Following the finger of the therapist whilst remembering

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Act?

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Acceptance and commitment therapy

Teach clients that negative thoughts aren’t facts. Except and tolerate full range of emotions. Sometimes involves meditation.

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Mindfulness based cognitive therapy?

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Combines mindfulness with cognitive therapy it reduces relapse by 50%

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DBT?

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Dialectual behavioural therapy

Frequently used for borderline personality disorder
Encourages the acceptance of intense emotions whilst trying to cope by making changes

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Pattern of intellectual disabilities in families?

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The more severe the intellectual disability The less likely it is to run in families this typically occur from genetic mutations or accidents during birth

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Pleasure principle?

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Tendency of the ID to strive for immediate gratification

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Reality principle?

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Tendency of the ego to post pone gratification until it can find an appropriate outlet

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What is sublimation?

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Transforming a socially unacceptable impulses into and admired goal

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Oedipus complex

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During the phallic stage boys romantically love mothers and want to eliminate father

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Electoral complex?

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Phallic stage females love the fathers romantically want to eliminate their mothers

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Projective hypothesis

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Hypothesis that in the process of interpreting ambiguous stimuli they will project aspects of personality

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TAT?

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Thematic apperception test

Projective tests where they tell stories in response to pictures

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Human figure drawings

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Can be used to tell personality in the way that they draw the pictures

17
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Graphology?

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Psychological interpretations of handwriting however it has a low reliability

18
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PT Barnum effect?

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Tendency of people to accept high base rate descriptions as accurate for example horoscopes

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PEN by Eysenck?

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Suggests there are three superior traits. Psychoticism, extraversion and neuroticism

20
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Which is the most common onset, course and outcome of schizophrenia?

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Acute, episodic, mild or recovered

21
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What are the current issues with diagnosing personality disorders?

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High comorbidity rates

Diagnosis is currently unspecified

22
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What isn’t a symptom of depersonalisation disorder?

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Random periods of amnesia

23
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What is an obsession?

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Persistent intrusive ideas or impulses that are unwanted and cause stress

24
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How can you tell the difference between normal and disordered personalities?

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Consider the context (time place reason) of behaviours

25
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What % of heritability estimate for major personality traits?

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20-45%

26
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What is another symptom of depersonalisation disorder?

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May be impairment of sensation or sense of time

27
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What are some physiological changes because of DID?

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EEG variation
Voice patterns
Handedness

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Phenomenology?

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Humanistic.

The way each person consciously experiences the self relationships and the world

29
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Heritability percentage of intelligence?

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Consensus: 60%

30
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Examples of projective tests?

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Ink blot tests

Thematic apperception test

31
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What are some points regarding heritability?

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Cannot be applied to a single individual
Not constant or immutable
Not a precise statistic

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