Lecture 1

Question 1

4 Contributors to a Psychological Disorder

Answer 1

1) Deviance (atypical)
2) Distress
3) Dysfunction
4) Duration

Question 2

What is Deviance (atypical)?

Answer 2

Behaviours, thoughts, emotions statistically rare and unhelpful

Question 3

What is Distress?

Answer 3

Symptoms associated with significant distress to the individual, distress can be normal and some disorders have no distress

Question 4

What is Dysfunction? (2)

Answer 4

1) Breakdown in emotional, cognitive, or behavioural functioning
2) Interference with daily life (withdrawal/avoidance)

Question 5

What is Duration?

Answer 5

Enduring pattern (e.g. hyper-vigilance after a car crash)

Question 6

3 Case Conceptualisation Factors

Answer 6

1) Predisposing
2) Precipitating
3) Perpetuating

Question 7

What is a Predisposing Factor?

Answer 7

Makes more vulnerable prior to the disorders, makes it more likely

Question 8

Predisposing Factor Examples (2)

Answer 8

1) Biological (genetic/family)

2) Social (SeS, family conflict/unstable environment)

Question 9

What is a Precipitating Factor?

Answer 9

Factors that trigger and temporally involved in the actual onset of the symptoms

Question 10

Precipitating Factor Examples (3)

Answer 10

1) general life stress
2) life transition
3) particular traumatic or stressful experience

Question 11

What is a Perpetuating Factor?

Answer 11

Maintaining factors that serve to maintain the problem or keep symptoms going

Question 12

Perpetuating Factor Examples (5)

Answer 12

1) Ongoing life stress
2) avoidance
3) withdrawal
4) maladaptive coping
5) cognitive factors