Mental Health Flashcards
Psychological dysfunction
a breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral
functioning.
Psychopathology
The scientific study of psychological disorders
Incidence
How many new cases occur within a given time frame such as a year
Prognosis
The anticipated course of a disorder
Etiology
What causes a disorder? Why does it begin? Biopsychosocial
Equifinality
Many paths to a given outcome
Adaptive functioning
When defense mechanisms are used to cope with stressors
One-dimensional causal models assume
That a disorder is caused by one factor such as a chemical imbalance
Multidimensional models
Assume that context is important and several factors and dimensions are important to understanding a disorder
How we acquire and process information store and retrieve it are what type of factors?
Behavioral and cognitive factors
Emotion vs mood
Emption: temporary short lived
Mood: more persistent period of emotionality
Ego-dystonic
The individual perceives the symptoms or traits as unacceptable or undesirable
Ego-syntonic
The individual perceives the symptoms or traits as acceptable
Assessment:
Process of determining the psychological, biological, and social factors that may be associated with a disorder
Mental status exam covers what five areas?
- Appearance and behavior
- Thought processes
- Mood and affect
- Intellectual functioning
- Sensorium: orientation and awareness to surroundings, time, place, and identity.
Description of an individual at a specific point in time
Mental status exam
Projective tests
Deal with the expression of the unconscious (Rorschach, thematic apperception test)
Personality tests
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
California Psychological inventory
Intelligence tests
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - 4