Mental Illness Flashcards
Bio psychosocial model?
Psychological states associated with physical illness
General adaption syndrome?
Response to stress, alarm, resistance and exhaustion
Optimist?
Thinks stressors are temporary
Pessimistic?
Thinks stressors are uncomfortable and last longing
Lazarus View?
Two way process, stressor caused by environment and the individual response
Primary Appraisal?
Immediate process of interpreting an event meaning
Secondary appraisal?
Analysis of ones available resources to overcome situation
Medical model
Diagnosed based on symptoms and treated through therapy
DSM-5
Manual of disorders
Stimulus generalisation
Fearful event that turns into a fear of similar events
Psychoanalysis Theory
Bringing repressed feelings into consciousness
Aversive conditioning
Want to substitute negative response stimulus for positive one
Psychodynamic theory
Explore and help people understand symptoms
Systematic Desensitisation
Designed to reduce anxiety
Epigenetic
Study of how behaviour and environment causes changes that affect genes