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Clinical psychology

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Branch of psych; assessment and treatment if mental illness, abnormal behavior and psychiatric problems

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Personality

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Person’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting

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4 personality framework questions

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  • What is the nature of humans?
  • What motivates our behavior?
  • What factors are important for development of personality?
  • Can we change, how?
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Psychodynamic approach (Freud)

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Conflicting forces; unconscious influences

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Hysteria

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Physical symptoms without physical cause

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Seduction theory

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Mental problems due to actual sexual abuse

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Three aspects of mind

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  1. Conscious
  2. Preconscious
  3. Unconscious
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Conscious mind

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Current awareness

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Preconscious mind

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Things we can become aware of

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Unconscious mind

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Blocked from awareness

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Repression

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Blocking of Id impulses, motivated forgetting

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Denial

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Saying you aren’t in a current state

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Rationalization

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Logical reason to not feel a certain way

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Displacement

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“Kicking the dog” taking it out on something else

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Projection

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The other person is feeling something, not you

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Reaction formation

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Present themselves as the opposite of they feel

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Sublimination

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Displacement to socially acceptable activity

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Freud’s developmental theory

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Goal: experience optimal gratification at each stage without fixation

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Freud’s stages in order

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  1. Oral stage
  2. Anal stage
  3. Phallic stage
  4. Latency period
  5. Genital stage
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Oral stage

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Birth to 18 months; weaning=overly dependent or hostile/outspoken
E-zone: mouth

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Anal stage

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18 months to 3 years; toilet training=generous/messy or stingy/neat
E-zone: anus
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Phallic stage

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3 to 5 years, Resolving sexual identity issues Oedipal crisis: prove manhood or Electra complex: inferior/seductive
E-zone: penis/lack of one

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Latency period

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5 to puberty, repressed libido and displacement to other activities

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Genital stage

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Remainder of life, sexual urges towards others, drive towards love and generation

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Criticisms if Freud’s theory

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  1. Not scientific
  2. Vague and unstable
  3. Culturally bound
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Positive regard

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Sense of being loved

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Conditional positive regard

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You are only loved and excepted if you….
Use defense mechanisms
Short run not long run

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Unconditional positive regard

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You have value and are loved despite how you behave

Separate actions from worth

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Personal constructs

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Beliefs about ourselves and interact with out environment

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Humanistic theory

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  1. Personal responsibility
  2. Present
  3. People can change
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Cognitive social approach

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  1. Learning is important
  2. People have control over responses to environment
  3. Have capacity to change
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Positive psychology

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Shares focus with humanistic view but is evidence bases

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Eclectic view

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Mix of all theories

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Self-serving bias

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Readiness to perceive oneself favorably

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How to define abnormal behavior

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  1. Clinically significant-warrant professional help
  2. Internal source-stems from within
  3. Involuntary manifestation
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Factors effecting psychological disorders

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  1. Predisposing factors-in place before disorder begins
  2. Precipitating causes-current stressors
  3. Maintaining causes-rewards(attention)
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Fear

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Specific item, situation or though

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Anxiety

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Vague unspecified generalized fears or future fears

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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GAD eggs greater worry and tension. Anticipate disaster

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Phobia

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Intense irrational fear of specific objects

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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OCD recurrent thought impulses or images

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Bipolar

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Reoccurring episodes of depression and mania with normal moods in between

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Hypomania

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Less severe mania

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Dysthymia

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Less severe depression

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Cyclothymia

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Less severe bipolar disorder

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Schizophrenia

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Break from reality

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Symptoms of schizophrenia

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Delusions of control, grandeur, reference, and persecution

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Hallucinations

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Seeing and hearing things that are not there

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Disordered thoughts

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Unusual associations

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Subtypes of schizophrenia

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Paranoid and disorganized

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Paranoid type

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Delusions of persecution
Well-organized delusions
Not the violent type

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Disorganized type

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Speech disorganization (word salad)
Poorly developed delusions
Not the violent type
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Catatonic schizophrenia

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Motor symptoms; hold same position normal people can’t

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Undifferentiated schizophrenia

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For people who don’t fit into the other categories

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Personality disorders

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Stable, long-term, extreme personality characteristics, and impair functioning and/or social relationships, non-treatable

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Cluster A: Odd–eccentric personality disorders

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Paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal

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Cluster B: dramatic-emotional

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Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic

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Antisocial personality disorder

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(Psychopath) appear charming have no remorse or feelings of responsibility for their actions don’t learn from punishment and are the dangerous type

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Borderline personality disorder

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The woman version of antisocial personality disorder

Clingy to others overly possessive short-term stormy relationships

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Cluster C: anxious-fearful personality disorders

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Avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive

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Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

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Rigid behavior perfectionists dogmatic and emotionally blocked

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Counter conditioning

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Exposure therapy; flooding

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