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Mental Disorders Part B Flashcards

1
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what are the 2 categories within social control of mental disorders?

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  • medicalization
  • stigmatization
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what is stigmatization?

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becoming an outsider

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what is medicalization?

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defined, diagnosed, and treated within medical framework

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what is the evolution of medicalization of mental disorder?

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  • religious and spiritual rituals
  • prisons and madhouses
  • asylums
  • psych institutions
  • community treatment
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who discussed the growth of the asylum?

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Edward Shorter

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where was the asylum located and what treatment did they use?

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St Mary Bethleham Hospital
- ice water shock
- lobotomies

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what is the definition of mental disorders

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mental illnesses -> a mental, behavior or emotional disorder
serious mental illness -> resulting a serious functional impairment

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true or false - the term for the number of new diagnoses per year is called prevalance

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false - it is called incidences

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define prevalance

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who has it right now

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__% of adults have a mental disorder in any given year

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20

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by the age of ___ , ____ (how many canadians) have had a mental disorder

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40 ; half of canadians

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by the age of 90, __ - ___% will have had a mental disorder

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65-70%

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what are the 3 most common mental disorders

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mood/anxiety
substance abuse
cognitive impairment

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what do schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder , BPD and depression all have in common

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they are all psychotic disorders

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define psychosis

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loss of touch with reality

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what are the three symptoms of psychosis

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hallucinations, delusion and disordered speech and behavior

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differentiate between hallucinations and delusions

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hallucinations affect our senses and delusions are just faulty thinkingwh

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what are the most common hallucinations

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auditory and visual

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what are the two types of delusions we talked about in class

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paranoid and delusions of grandeur

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match the example to the associated term
you think you are one of jesus’ disciples

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delusion of grandeur

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what are the criteria for schizophrenia

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  1. same as psychosis symptoms (hallucinations, delusions and disorganized speech)
  2. positive symptoms -> they are there when they should not be
  3. continuous disturbance for 6 months
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what did the video of Quentin in winter video tell us

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had auditory and visual delusions
-> save his father from the sun, red car and red flower connected to one of his family dying, touching the fish gives him superpowers

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what is a theory as to why women might not be diagnosed with schizophrenia

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estrogen may be protecting them

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______ accounts for 50% of the risk of mental disorders

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genetics

25
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what is the best way to test the effects of genetics on mental disorders

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twin studies

26
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how does twin studies help with understanding the genetics behind mental disorders

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when you take identical twins, they have 100% shared genetic material and if the disease is genetic then if one twin has, so will the other

27
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what is the prevalance of schizphrenia

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less than 1%

28
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if the mother has schizphrenia, it is __% likely that the daughter will get it but only __% if the father has it

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12 ; 10

29
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what are some of the predispositions for psychosis (other than genetics, biological and psychological)

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maternal nutrition, viral infection, perinatal complications , exposure to toxins and stress

30
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true or false - women who immigrate are at lower risk for psychosis

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false - at a higher risk

31
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true or false - mothers who experience death of a close relative during the first two trimesters are more vulnerable to psychosis

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false - only during first trimester

32
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what are the medical conditions that could make people vulnerable to affective disorders

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neurological conditions such as huntingtons and parkinsons

33
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what are some predisposed factors for affective disorders

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genetics, gender, age, abuse, loss and rejection, stress and substance abuse

34
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true or false - younger people are more vulnerable to affective disorders

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true

35
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alexander leighton said there are certain factors that can cause individual stress, what are they, name a couple

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need for physical security, sexual satisfaction, love and security, recognition, creativity and sense of belonging to a group

36
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_______ was higher in disintegrated communities

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mental illness

37
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what defined a community as disintegrated

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history of disaster, extensive poverty, community that moved away from religion and rapid social change

38
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what were the results of pearlin and colleagues experiment on depression rates and unemployment

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people who did not develop depression
… compared themselves positively with others
not focused on economic or monetary achievements
high levels of emotional support
internal locus of control

39
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define the social causation hypothesis

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suggests that the cause of mental illness is due to society

40
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define social selection hypothesis

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suggests that mental illness leads to poverty

41
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why did asylums grow?

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  • increase in illness
  • poorhouses and workhouses closing
  • overrun jails
  • growing intolerance of madness within family/community
  • asylum as more humane environment for the ill
  • capitalism
  • growing legitimacy of medicine/psych
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43
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why was deinstitutionalization introduced?

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  • civil libertarianism
  • new anti-psychotic meds
  • promise of community mental health services: keep the costs low while still caring for patients
  • political-economic influences: cut the costs
44
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did deinstitutionalization benefit society?

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  • no
    poverty, homelessness, suicide, imprisonment, substance abuse, violence, family stress, victimization
45
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what is the cost to individuals vs family/society when deinstitutionalizing?

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  • unemployment
  • impaired parent-child bonding
  • lost of tax revenue
46
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what are the 4 requirements that make deinstitutionalization successful?

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  • supportive family network
  • accepting community
  • adequate community resources
  • place to live
47
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what is an alternative to involuntary hospitalization?

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community treatment orders

48
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what is the point of community treatment orders?

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to address revolving door patients
- people who come in and out of the hospital bc of agnosia and so they stop taking meds

49
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what is in community treatment orders?

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  • medico-legal provisions -> between the dr and legal law, contract stating the patient has to come in and see psych every 2 weeks and if they don’t then police can break in and force you back in
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51
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who defined stigma?

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Erving Goffman

52
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what was Goffman’s definition of stigma?

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attribute that deeply discredits and characterizes the bearer as tainted and discounted

53
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what is the summary of Crazy like us?

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  • the reason mental illness is stigmatized is because it is viewed that either you have the illness or you do not
  • we created a group known as the “other”
  • we all have nerves and if we are sick that means the nerves are off and it causes different levels of illness
54
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what did Wolff state was one stigma around mental disorders?

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cost-of-illness estimates reflect neg attitude
- workplaces are losing money bc workers arent working so those who work do not want to put themselves in same category as those who are viewed as a burden to society

55
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what are those who have mental disorders labelled as?

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  • unpredictable
  • violent
  • avoiding life’s responsibilities
    -> people with disorders are more at risk to self than others but the media presents it in a different manner causing stigmas
56
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what does discrimination in healthcare contribute to?

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  • lack of funding for mental health
  • some hospitals are nicely renovated while others look like a shit hole which shows the lack of funding (uofa hospital vs alberta hospital)
57
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what are some books and headlines that represent stigma/metal health?

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  • headline: ill sweep psychos off the streets
  • dr.jekyll and mr.hyde
  • jane eyre
  • to kill a mockingbird
  • the yellow wallpaper
  • one flew over the cuckoo’s nest
  • ward no. 6
58
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what are some methods to resist stigma?

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  • embedded within discrimination paradigm
  • human rights legislation and policies
  • self-help and advocacy groups
  • public education
  • stigma management techniques used by individuals
59
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what are the 4 stigma management techniques?

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  • trying to pass -> hide it from everyone
  • dividing their social worlds -> only tell some
  • deflecting -> distance self from label
  • challenging -> confront stigmatization

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