Lecture 12: psychological cause and treatments

Question 1

psychological symptoms presentation of symptoms

Answer 1

biggest concern is getting info out of your client and figure what info you’re getting

1. tell symptoms as best they can
2. As best as you can observe.
3. As best as you can test given on the psychological testing currently available to us.

Question 2

information we can about an individual in their current state

Answer 2

■ Biological
■ Psychological
■ Social functioning

use the information available to us and try to figure out what is going on with someone so that we can best figure out how we can help an individual in an equal way.

Question 3

multiple causes of psychological symptom

Answer 3

■ They might have a biological condition like a flint of some kind of neurotransmitter.
■ They might have a neurological imbalance.
■ Some diseases that are manifesting psychological symptoms.
■ They might be going through some rough times in their social life.
■ They might also have some weird ways of thinking, all wrapped up into one, creating the idea of whatever psychological disorder they might be experiencing.

Question 4

The Brain

Answer 4

○ Every single part of our brain is dedicated to doing something or other.
○ Anything that comes along to mess with how our brain works can, on the outside, look like symptoms of psychological disorders

Question 5

how we develop psychological disorders

Answer 5

○ The Broca’s area of the brain, whereby damage to that one little part of that, people can’t form words anymore.
○ If you damage their occipital lobe, they’re going to have trouble seeing things properly.

Question 6

If you damage their prefrontal lobe

Answer 6

■ They’re going to have trouble planning.
■ Inhibiting certain kinds of behavior, thinking and executing plans, and paying attention to stuff.

Question 7

You can damage the brain for several reasons

Answer 7

■ Accidental, actual physical damage, like you bolt your head on something.
■ There could be some kind of infection.
● For example, if you contract syphilis, some symptoms will damage your brain and manifest as psychological dysfunction

Question 8

maladaptive behaviours PTSD

Answer 8

● You know something bad is going to happen, and so you get away from that uncomfortableness.
● You might not want to, but eventually, you might have to do something with that nature.
● You can’t avoid everything forever.
● You have this anxiety, this discomfort that is then removed by avoiding the thing in question.
● And through that removal of a negative thing, you feel better and are more likely to redo that in the future

Question 9

Cultural Competence

Answer 9

our individual has awareness and knowledge of the applied culture to better achieve an understanding of the issues being presented and how to help effectively.

Question 10

presentation of symptoms: cultural competence

Answer 10

depression to be a mood disorder.
■ You have a lot of energy
■ You have headaches all the time
■ You experience pains and aches

Question 11

Cultural congruence

Answer 11

treatment that is consistent with the cultural beliefs and expectations of the client.

• the goal we’re trying to achieve whereby we want to be able to understand where the individual is coming from
  ■ Their cultural background
  ■ What’s going on with them socially and psychologically, to do better in terms of offering treatments, advice,

Question 12

Issue of Gender Roles

Answer 12

• societal and own state data/fetish behaviours considered acceptable, appropiate/desirable for ppl
  (influence typical onset of phobias and mood disorders)
• women are more likely to report phobias then men
• men are shamed in expressing phobias (heights or claustrophobia)
• misdiagnosis by professionals regarding gender of names

Question 13

psychology gendered issues

Answer 13

• women are 4x more likely to attempt but men are more likely to succeed
• men succeed due to method by choice, women choose methods that give them time to be rescued

Question 14

Social Health Influences

Answer 14

1. involve other people
2. # and frequency of social interaction have impact on psychological function
3. hang out around other individuals (quality>quantity)
4. social relations help blood pressure, alcoholism, and arthritis

Question 15

stress

Answer 15

psychological health isnt like the doctors

• take long time for development
• takes long time for things to managed or not treated completely
• use medical model for psychological functioning, have snapshot window of doctor, get diagnosed with something, treat it, see what happens

Question 16

medical system doesn’t include psychopathology

Answer 16

• seen as unreliable and therefore doesn’t cover psychological disorders well
• idea that you come in, treat and see what happens
• medical POV: doesn’t match with psychological functioning and well-being

Question 17

3 basic bio-psychosocial approach

Answer 17

• long-term/short-term
• what happened to them
• what happen later on

Question 18

how to help whole legislative factors

Answer 18

• encourage positive relationships
• correct maladaptive behaviours
• find out whats going on psychologically, biologically and how they’re playing a role

Question 19

lifespan approach

Answer 19

idea that different stages of our lives, we react differently to psychological disorders
- exp. smth young usually easier to bounce back from those things
- plasticity means your brain is going to adapt physical and psychological barriers more easily
- The idea is that we change individuals as we go through time

Question 20

freud theory

Answer 20

all have this repository of unconscious urges, desires, needs, and wants.
- natural tendencies as we grow up, people will mentally say, “Don’t do that, it’s gross” and they’ll start feeling bad for having these wants, needs, and urges.
- ideas becoming maladaptive, display some kind of psychopathology symptoms

Question 21

freud theory: therapist

Answer 21

• the therapist’s job is to try and provide insight
• client and the patient, are trying to achieve insight
• conscious awareness of the secondary processes and underlying their problems.

Question 22

freud and mind

Answer 22

mind is just a repository of different pools of psychic energy
- called the egos, and it’s supposed to flow through the system freely
- gets blocked because of an early conflict or in the stage or through some kind of maladaptive behaviors
- manifest in the form of psychological symptoms

Question 23

freud and blockage

Answer 23

• trying to find out where the blockages are and work through those to be able to clean them up

Question 24

ways to free blockage freud

Answer 24

● Free association
● Dream interpretation

Question 25

Dream interpretation

Answer 25

dreams are thought to be the expressions of your unconscious, and you can interpret your dreams to try to figure out things.

Question 26

freud and dreams

Answer 26

wishful-building
● You can do things in your dreams that you cannot do when you’re waking hours.
● The therapist is there to help interpret dreams to try to get at what’s going on with an individual.