Extras Flashcards
What are paraprofessionals?
They aren’t qualified but can help bridge the gap in demand
Interpersonal therapy?
Originally for depression
Short term
Strengthens social skills, coping and conflict
Can also be used for substance abuse and eating disorders
TFT?
Thought field therapy
Thinking of your fear whilst having acupuncture
EMDR?
Eye movement desensitisation and repressing
Following the finger of the therapist whilst remembering
Act?
Acceptance and commitment therapy
Teach clients that negative thoughts aren’t facts. Except and tolerate full range of emotions. Sometimes involves meditation.
Mindfulness based cognitive therapy?
Combines mindfulness with cognitive therapy it reduces relapse by 50%
DBT?
Dialectual behavioural therapy
Frequently used for borderline personality disorder
Encourages the acceptance of intense emotions whilst trying to cope by making changes
Pattern of intellectual disabilities in families?
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
Pleasure principle?
Tendency of the ID to strive for immediate gratification
Reality principle?
Tendency of the ego to post pone gratification until it can find an appropriate outlet
What is sublimation?
Transforming a socially unacceptable impulses into and admired goal
Oedipus complex
During the phallic stage boys romantically love mothers and want to eliminate father
Electoral complex?
Phallic stage females love the fathers romantically want to eliminate their mothers
Projective hypothesis
Hypothesis that in the process of interpreting ambiguous stimuli they will project aspects of personality
TAT?
Thematic apperception test
Projective tests where they tell stories in response to pictures
Human figure drawings
Can be used to tell personality in the way that they draw the pictures
Graphology?
Psychological interpretations of handwriting however it has a low reliability
PT Barnum effect?
Tendency of people to accept high base rate descriptions as accurate for example horoscopes
PEN by Eysenck?
Suggests there are three superior traits. Psychoticism, extraversion and neuroticism
Which is the most common onset, course and outcome of schizophrenia?
Acute, episodic, mild or recovered
What are the current issues with diagnosing personality disorders?
High comorbidity rates
Diagnosis is currently unspecified
What isn’t a symptom of depersonalisation disorder?
Random periods of amnesia
What is an obsession?
Persistent intrusive ideas or impulses that are unwanted and cause stress
How can you tell the difference between normal and disordered personalities?
Consider the context (time place reason) of behaviours
What % of heritability estimate for major personality traits?
20-45%
What is another symptom of depersonalisation disorder?
May be impairment of sensation or sense of time
What are some physiological changes because of DID?
EEG variation
Voice patterns
Handedness
Phenomenology?
Humanistic.
The way each person consciously experiences the self relationships and the world
Heritability percentage of intelligence?
Consensus: 60%
Examples of projective tests?
Ink blot tests
Thematic apperception test
What are some points regarding heritability?
Cannot be applied to a single individual
Not constant or immutable
Not a precise statistic
