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Introduction and Key Concepts Flashcards

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Study of NATURE, SYMPTOMATOLOGY, DEVELOPMENT, and TREATMENT of Psychological disorders

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Psychopathology

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4 Key characteristics in the DSM Definition of Mental Disorders

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  1. Personal Distress
  2. Disability
  3. Violation of Social Norms
  4. Dysfunction
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Breakdown in COGNITIVE, EMOTIONAL, or BEHAVIOR FUNCTIONING

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Psychological Dysfunction

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A person’s behavior may be classified as a disorder if it causes him or her distress

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Personal Distress

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Impairment in some important areas of life

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Disability

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Reaction is outside Cultural Norms. It deviates from the average

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Violations of Social Norms

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WIDELY ACCEPTED SYSTEM used to classify Psychological problems and disorders

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)

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This is the PRESENTING problems of the patient

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Presents

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How many people in the population as a whole have the disorder

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Prevalence

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How many NEW CASES occur during a given period of time?, let’s say a in a year

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Incidence

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This is the BEGINNING of a disorder

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Onset

  1. Acute - rapidly progressive
  2. Insidious - gradual
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Disorders follow somewhat an individual pattern

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Course

  1. Chronic - persistent/long lasting
  2. Episodic - happens from time to time
  3. Time-Limited - happens within a period of time
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What contributes to the development of psychopathology?

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Etiology

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How can we help ALLEVIATE Psychological suffering?

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Treatment Development

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The ANTICIPATED course of a Dusorder

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Prognosis

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How do we know that we have helped?

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Treatment outcome Research

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The DOCTRINE that an Evil being or Spirit can dwell within a person and control his/her mind and body thereby can be treated by EXORCISM

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Demonology

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He said that Mental Disturbances have NATURAL (Not Supernatural) causes

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Hippocrates

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According to HIPPOCRATES, the THREE categories of Mental Disturbances

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  1. Mania
  2. Melancholia
  3. Phrenitis
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The FOUR Humors of Blood According to HIPPOCRATES

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  1. Blood
  2. Black Bile
  3. Yellow Bile
  4. Phlegm
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The attribution of INSANITY to misalignment of Moon and Stars

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Lunacy

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Characterized as the LARGE-SCALE outbreaks of Bizarre Behavior

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Mass Hysteria

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This is one of the FIRST Metal Institutions and this is also where the term BEDLAM originated

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Priory of St. Mary of Bethlehem

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As an EARLY MEDICAL treatment, He recommended drawing copious amounts of blood out from the body

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Benjamin Rush

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He pioneered HUMANITARIAN treatment at LaBicrete

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Philippe Pinel

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She is a crusader for Prisoners and Mentally ill and founded the MENTAL HYGIENE MOVEMENT

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Dorothea Dix

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This is the DEGENERATIVE disorder with Psychological Symptoms caused by Syphilis

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General Paresis

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____ is the extent to which behavioral differences are due to genetics, this was founded by ____

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Behavioral Genetics ; Francis Galton

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Promotion of enforced sterilization to eliminate undesirable characteristics from the population

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Eugenics

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Founded the INSULIN-COMA Therapy

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Manfred-Sakel, 1927

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Founded Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

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Cerletti and Beni, 1938

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Introduced Prefrontal Lobotomy - often lead to listlessness, seizures, apathy, and lack of some cognitive abilities

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Egas Monis, 1935

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He pioneered classification of Mental Illness based on Biological Causes

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Emil Kreaplin

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Two Major Syndromes proposed by Emil Kreaplin

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  1. Demential Preacox

2. Manic-Depressive Psychosis

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He treated patients with Hysteria using “ANIMAL MAGNETISM”

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Mesmer (1734-1815)

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Used Hypnosis to facilitate “CATHARSIS”

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Josef Breuer (1842-1925)

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This is the release of Emotional Tension triggered by relieving and talking about the event

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Catharsis

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States that Human Behavior is determined by UNCONSCIOUS FORCES

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Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory

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