Intro to psychopathology

Question 1

stigma

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public (negative attitudes others have about mental illness), self (negative thoughts one has about self and mental illness), institutionalized (government or private places limiting opportunities for people with mental illness)

Question 2

prehistoric times

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people thought it was demonic, god played a role, people had possession, the treatment was trephination and exorcism

Question 3

greek philosophers

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looked at culture and philosophy

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middle ages

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not scientific thinking, inhumane thinking

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1500s-1600s

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resurgence of science, asylum

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1700s-1800s

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reform and moral treatment, focus on rest and diet

Question 7

1900s

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treatment, deinstitutionalization, hygiene movement

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2000s

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modern view, 4 major developments: biological link, basis of disorders, classification, research

Question 9

2024

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biopsychosocial model, research, development of evidence based treatments, barriers to care, unknowns about etiology and treatment remain

Question 10

indicators of psychopathology

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subjective distress, maladaptive, statistical deviance, violation of society standard, social discomfort, irrational and unpredictable, dangerousness

Question 11

types of research

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data, case studies, epidemiological, correlational, randomized

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research ethics

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informed consent, psychological harm, purpose of institutional review board

Question 13

multifinality

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when people start at the same point but end up with a different diagnosis

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equifinality

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when people start at a different point but end up with the same disorder

Question 15

psychodynamic or psychoanalytic

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subconscious and how we think about the world or how we think about ourselves can trigger a disorder

Question 16

behavioral perspective

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focus only on the observable behavior, classical and operant conditioning

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classical conditioning

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stimulus gets associated with a feeling

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operant conditioning

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a reward in feeling in psychopathology

Question 19

cognitive behavioral perspective

Answer 19

focus on thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, and behaviors

Question 20

schema

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the lens through which one sees

Question 21

types of assessment

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clinical observation, direct observation, psychological tests, physical assessment, neuropsychological assessment, neurological assessment, behavioral observation

Question 22

types of classification

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categorical (meet the diagnostic criteria or not), prototypical (comparing if one describes the ideal criteria), dimensional (where one falls on a spectrum)

Question 23

pros of the dsm

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easy to diagnose, specific, nomenclature, common language, provides bounds, insurance reimbursement, clumping is organization, treatment roadmap, provides hope

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cons of the dsm

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loss of individual info, stigma, stereotyping, labeling, dimensional constructs are limited by category, limitations, comorbidity, subjective judgments - mixed reliability, different thresholds, based on the expert opinion and only that

Question 25

reliability

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the degree to which measuring a divide produced the same result each time it is used to measure the same thing

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variability

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the extent to which measure is measuring what it purports to measure

Question 27

specific phobia

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when someone has a fear regarding a specific object

Question 28

panic disorder

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when someone has a panic attack and has a great fear that another one is going to happen (heart pounding, sweating, trembling, chest pain, nausea, dizziness, distress or worry, change in behavior to reduce the likelihood of a panic attack)

Question 29

agoraphobia

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fear of being in places that is difficult to escape

Question 30

social anxiety disorder

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disabling fears of one or more specific social situation

Question 31

generalized anxiety disorder

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worry about multiple domains in life, worry for at least six months every day, worry is excessive, associated symptoms

Question 32

stress vs. trauma

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stress is what we experience and trauma is from a specific event (stress is chronicity, timing, how closely it affects someone, control)

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criterion A trauma

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direct exposure, witness, learning about trauma, repeated or extreme exposure

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Yerkes dodson curve

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without anxiety we would not be able to function well

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three component model of emotion

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sensations, thought, behavior

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Lang’s fear model (emotional processing)

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stimulus to response to meaning

Question 37

PTSD treatment

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prolonged exposure, cognitive processing therapy, exposure based

Question 38

GAD treatment

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exposure (interoceptive, situational, imaginal)