Intro To Mental Health Problems Flashcards
Psychotherapy
Talking therapy that aims to help you deal with emotional problems and mental health disorders
Psychotherapy root word Psyche + therapeia meaning
Soul + healing
Counseling
Short term, shallower experience, focus on immediate problems
Psychotherapy
Long term, deeper level of experience
Both counseling and psychotherapy are ____, and the terms are interchangeable in modern society
Talking therapies
Necessity for therapy is
Rising
What percent of the population has a mental health problem
10.7%
The four d’s
Deviance, dysfunction, distress, danger
Prevalence
Proportion of the population who have a specific disorder in a given time
Point prevalence
At a specific point in time
Period prevalence
At any point in a given time period
Lifetime prevalence
At some point in life up to the time of assessment
Incidence
The number of new cases of a disorder arising over a given period
Depression symptoms
Persistent low mood, loss of interest in activities, irritability, reduced ability to think, disrupted sleep, changes to appetite
Generalized anxiety disorder
Excessive or ongoing worry about multiple events, difficulty controlling worry
Social anxiety disorder
Persistent fear and anxiety about social situations
Phobia
Persistent fear of specific object or situation
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Reoccurring distressing thoughts, followed by repetitive behaviors that aim to minimize the distress
Bipolar disorder
A cyclical mood disorder of depression and mania or hypo mania
Mania/hypomania
Inflated self esteem, grandiosity, racing thoughts, psychomotor agitation, increased risk taking
Bipolar disorder I
Alternating mania and depression
Bipolar Disorder II
Co-occurring depressive episodes and hypomania
Schizophrenia
Characterized by fundamental distortions in thinking
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia
Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking and behaviors
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Anhedonia, avolition, reduced speech output and emotional expression
Cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia
Slower thinking, difficulty making decisions, easily distracted
People with anorexia lack the insight
That their behavior is problematic
People with bulimia do have insight
That their behavior is problematic
Cluster A personality disorders
Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal
Cluster B
Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic
Cluster C
Avoidant, dependent, Obsessive-compulsive
Sort: paranoid
A
Sort: schizoid
A
Sort: schizotypal
A
Sort: antisocial
B
Sort: borderline
B
Sort: histrionic
B
Sort: narcissistic
B
Sort: avoidant
C
Sort: dependent
C
Sort: obsessive compulsive
C
Depression stats
4-10% will experience depression in their lifetime
Anxiety stats
1-7% europe
Bipolar stats
4 million cases in UK
Percentage of bipolar in US
2%
Schizophrenia stats
1% lifetime risk
ED stats
1.6 M ppl in UK
PTSD common symptoms
Flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, nightmares, anxiety symptoms
Traumatic event
Involves having experienced, witnessed, or been confronted with an event or events involving actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others
PTSD stats
1 in 20 reported PTSD in the adult psychiatric morbidity survey
