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Types Dissociative disorders

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  • dissociative amnesia
  • dissociate fugue
  • depersonalization/ derealization disorder
  • dissociative identity disorder or multiple personality disorder
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Dissociative disorders

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Characterized by severe maladaptive disruptions or alterations of identity, memory, and consciousness that are experienced as being beyond ones control

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Dissociation

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  • The lack of normal integration of thoughts, feelings, and experiences in consciousness and memory;
  • Persistent maladaptive disruptions in the integration of memory, consciousness, and identity
  • symptom in many mental disorders
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Repressed

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Referring to memories that a person cannot call into awareness, but which remain in the person’s subconscious and can be retrieved under certain conditions or with the help of psychotherapists

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False memory syndrome

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A proposed condition in which people are induced by therapists to remember events that never occurred

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Dissociative amnesia

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The inability to recall significant personal information in the absence of organic impairment

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Localized amnesia

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Individual can’t recall info from a specific time period

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Selective amnesia

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Parts of events (trauma) are remembered, others forgotten

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Generalized amnesia

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Individual forgets all past personal information from his or her past

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Continuous amnesia

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Individual forgets information from a specific date (trauma?) to present

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Systematized amnesia

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The person forgets certain categories of information such as people or places

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Which two categories of dissociative amnesia are the most common?

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-localized & selective

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The five patterns of memory loss characteristic of dissociative amnesia described in DSM-5

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1) localized amnesia
2) selective amnesia
3) generalized amnesia
4) continuous amnesia
5) systematized amnesia

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Dissociative fugue

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An extremely rare and unusual type of amnesia in which individuals not only have a loss of memory for their past and personal identity, but they also travel suddenly and unexpectedly away from home

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Depersonalization/ derealization disorder

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  • A dissociative disorder in which the individual has persistent or recurring experiences of depersonalizations and/ or derealization
  • likely related to emotional trauma
  • reduced emotional reactivity to stressful or emotionally intense stimuli, & cognitive disruptions in perceptual and attentional processes
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Depersonalization

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A condition in which individuals have a distinct sense of unreality and detachment from their own thoughts, feelings, sensations, actions, or body (sense of unreality, detachment from self)

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Derealization

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Involves feelings of unreality and detachment with respect with respect to one’s surroundings rather than the self(feelings of unreality, detachment from surroundings)

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Depersonalization is the _______ most commonly reported symptom

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Third

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Dissociative identity disorder (DID)

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  • (multiple personality disorder)
  • diagnosed when the patient presents with two or more distinct personality states that regularly take control of the patient’s behaviour and emotions
  • disruption identity & marked discontinuity in sense of self and agency
  • diagnosis age 29-35
  • high rate self-injury & suicide attempts
  • controversial disorder
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Alters

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The subsequent (not host) personalities found in dissociative identity disorder (DID)

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Social factors- etiology of dissociative disorders

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  • speculations about hat happens when parents are both loving and abusive
  • Iatrogenic effects
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Switching

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  • The process of changing from one personality to another

- often occurs in response to a stressful situation

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Trauma model

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According to his model, dissociative disorders are a result of severe childhood trauma, including sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, accompanied by personality traits that predispose the individual to employ dissociation as a defence mechanism or coping strategy (diathesis- stress formulation)

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Abreaction

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Re- experiencing of emotions that were felt at that time

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Psychological factors- etiology of dissociative disorders

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  • trauma
  • state dependent learning
  • attachment theory
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Treatment of dissociative disorders

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  • uncovering and expressing past traumas
  • hypnosis (abreaction)
  • DID: re-integrate all the personalities into a whole
  • medication to reduce stress
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Socio-cognitive model

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  • According to this perspective,multiple personality is a form of role playing in which individuals come to construe themselves as possessing multiple selves and then begin to act in ways consistent with their own or their therapist’s conception of the disorder
  • taken by many mental health professionals who do not accept DID as a legitimate disorder
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Types of somatic symptoms and related disorders

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  • Somatic symptom disorder with predominant pain
  • illness anxiety disorder
  • factitious disorder (Münchausen syndrome)
  • body dysmorphic disorder
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Somatic symptom disorder

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  • New diagnosis in DSM-5 which subsumes the former somatization disorder as well as hypochondriasis
  • a disorder characterized by one or more bodily symptoms that are distressing to the individual, result in significant disruption of daily life, and are accompanied by excessive worry and preoccupation, extreme anxiety, or disproportionate time and energy
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To be diagnosed with a somatic symptom disorder, a person must:

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  • have a history of multiple symptoms
  • changing somatic complaints involving multiple organ systems
  • history must have started before age 30 and include:
  • pain at least 4 different sites or pain during bodily functions
  • at least 2 gastrointestinal complaints
  • at least one sexual or reproductive complaint
  • at least one symptom other than pain suggests a neurological condition
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Somatic symptom disorder with predominant pain

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A subtype of somatic symptom disorder in which the presenting bodily symptom involves pain (called pain disorder in previous editions of DSM)

  • pain must be sufficient to warrant professional attention and cause distress, work interruptions
  • people must have excessive, unrealistic thoughts, feelings, or behaviour related to the symptom, exaggerated concerns about its seriousness, high levels anxiety, and/ or devote excessive time to dealing with it
  • ‘doctor shopping’
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Hysteria

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An outdated psychiatric term once used to describe a a symptom pattern characterized by emotional excitability and physical symptoms (e.g. Convulsions, paralyses,numbness, loss of vision) without any organic cause

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Conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder)

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Individuals with this disorder have a loss of functioning in apart of their body that appears to be due to neurological or other medical cause, but without any underlying medical abnormality to explain it

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Somatic symptom and related disorders

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A group of disorders in which individuals present with physical symptoms suggestive of medical illnesses, along with significant psychological distress and functional impairment at cannot be explained by organic impairment

Symptoms: impairment somatic system, multiple symptoms, preoccupation about the body, fear of physical illness

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Glove anaesthesia

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Involves a loss of all sensation throughout the hand, with the loss sharply demarcated at the wrist, rather than following a pattern consistent with the sensory innervation of the hand and forearm

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La belle indifference

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A nonchalant lack of concern about the nature and implications of ones symptoms

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Illness anxiety disorder

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A disorder characterized by preoccupation with having or acquaint a serious illness, even though the individual does not have any serious bodily symptoms. Individuals with this disorder are very preoccupied and anxious about their health, become easily alarmed by even mild symptoms,and perform excessive health-related behaviours such as repeatedly checking their body for signs of disease (hypochondriasis)

  • fear life threatening condition
  • Doctor shopping
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Difference between panic disorder and illness anxiety disorder

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  • people with illness anxiety disorder do not have the symptoms of a panic attack
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Difference between somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder

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People with somatic symptom disorder do have symptoms, which are unexplained by standard medical science

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Factitious disorder (Munchausen syndrome)

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Individuals deliberately fake or generate the symptoms of illness or injury to gain medical attention

  • can be physical or psychiatric
  • there must not be any evidence of external rewards. Must be “sick role”
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Factitious disordered imposed on another (Münchausen by proxy)

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An individual falsifies illness in another person, most commonly one’s own child

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Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)

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  • Excessive preoccupation with an imagined or exaggerated body disfigurement, sometimes to the point of delusion
  • distressing & difficult to control & interfering with social relations
  • classified as an anxiety disorder under OCD
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Are somatoform disorders more common in men or women

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Except for,illness anxiety disorder, much more common in women in North America & Europe

More common in men in Puerto Rico and Greece

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Somatoform disorders are more common in:

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  • low SES groups
  • people less than high school education
  • some cultures
  • people lost a spouse
  • Comorbidity with mood and anxiety disorders
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Two-factor psychobiological theory: somatoform disorders

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  1. Increased bodily signals due to biological factors related to prolonged distress, lack of physical condition, chronologically stimulated HPA axis
  2. A deficient ‘filter system’ that amplified body signals rather than inhibitiong them or effectively selecting them
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Psychological factors: somatoform disorders

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  • unconscious expression of conflict, negative affect
  • secondary gain
  • positive and negative reinforcement
  • learned sick role
  • Tendency to pay excessive attention & amplify somatic symptoms
  • misattribution of normal somatic symptoms
  • alexithymia: deficit in the capacity to recognize and verbalized emotions
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Alexithymia

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Deficit in the capacity to recognize and verbalized emotions

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Illness

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Defined by symptoms, which are subjective reports of internal states

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Disease

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Defined by signs, which are objective indications of disease process observable directly or by the use of tests

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Stress

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An event that creates physiological and/or psychological strain, thus creating a need for adaptation by the individual; influences all physical disorders

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Coping

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The thoughts and behaviours a person uses to regulate distress (emotion-focused coping), manage the problem causing distress (problem-focused coping), and manta ion positive well-being (meaning-based coping)

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Dualistic

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A view of mind and body as separate entities, subject to different laws. Nowadays avoided in DSM terminology, hence the substitution of the term psychophysiological for psychosomatic

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4 ways in which psychological or behavioural factors can affect a medical condition:

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  1. The factors affect the course of the medical condition
  2. Psychological factors interfere with the treatment of the condition
  3. Psychological factors present an abnormal risk to the health of the individual
  4. Psychological factors influence the pathophysiology of the disorder
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Behavioural medicine

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Application of the methods of behaviour modification to the treatment or prevention of disease- for example, the use of psychological techniques to control pain in patients undergoing medical procedures, or interventions to improve the diabetics’ ability to control blood glucose

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Health psychology

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Any application of psychological methods and theories to understand the origins of disease, individual response to disease, and the determinants of good health

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Mechanism

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An activity of a living system that mediates the influence the influence of an antecedent factor on disease

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Lesions

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Disruptions of bodily tissue or of the normal function of a bodily system

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Nonspecific immune responses

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One of the three general categories of immune response, in which circulating white cells called granulocytes and monocytes identify invading agents and destroy them by phagocytosis engulfing and digesting them

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Cellular immunity

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One of the three general categories of immune response, based on the action of a class of blood cells called T-lymphocytes. The “T” designation refers to the locus of their production, the thymus gland. Cellular immunity results from a cascade of actions of various types of T-lymphocytes

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Humoral immunity

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One of the three general categories of immune response, in which invading agents are presented by macrophages to B-lymphocytes…

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Psychoneuroimmunology

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The study of mind-brain-immune system interaction

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Three pathways through which psychosocial variables can influence immune activity:

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1) by the direct action of CNS on organs and structures of the immune system
2) as a secondary consequence of the hormonal changes
3) by changes in behaviour (ie poor diet) that reflect personal characteristics of adaptations to changing life conditions

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General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

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A stereotyped pattern of bodily changes that occurs in response to diverse challengers to the organism, first described by Hans Selye. The syndrome comprises three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. The GAS was the first formal description and definition of stress

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Alarm

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The first phase of the general adaptation syndrome (GAS), a concept that was the first formal description and definition of stress as a consequence of adaptation to demands on the body. In the alarm phase, the body, faced with an adaptive challenge, mobilizes its defences

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Resistance

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The second phase of the general adaptation syndrome (GAS. In the resistance phase, if the challenge of the alarm phase persists, the body actively fights or copes with the challenge through immune and neuroendocrine changes. These adaptive responses enhance the body’s ability to ward off threats in short term

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Transactional model

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A model of stress that conceives of stress as a property neither of stimulus nor of response, but rather as an ongoing series of transactions between an individual and his or her environment. Central to this formulation is the idea that people constantly evaluate what is happening to them and its implications for themselves (appraisals)

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People that can appraise an event as a ….

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Challenge rather than a harm or threat cope with stress better

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Appraisal

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In the transactional model of stress, evaluations that people constantly make about what is happening to them and its implications for themselves

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Primary appraisals

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In the transactional model, Cognitive evaluation of the challenge, threat, or harm presented by an event

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Secondary appraisals

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In the transactional model of stress, a set of appraisals that occur after a primary appraisal if the individual concludes there is an element of threat, equivalent to the question: “is there anything I can do about this?”; the assessment of ones abilities and resources for coping with a difficult event

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Internal locus of control

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See themselves as the masters of their own destiny

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Physiological responses to stress

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  • endocrine system (HPA axis)
  • autonomic nervous system & sympathetic-Arsenal medullary system (SAM)
  • immune system (paychneuroimmunogy)
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External locus of control

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See themselves as being buffeted by the random events of the world

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Who is less likely to develop stress related illness?

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  • those who can recognize and express emotion within reasonable ranges, and those who are prepared to discuss emotional and traumatic experiences
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Longitudinal study

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A large group of people are evaluated for psychological or behavioural features and then are followed up, years or decades later, to determine whether they have developed the disease

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Ischemic heart disease

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Blood supply to the heart becomes compromised

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Myocardial infarction

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Heart attack

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Stroke

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Blood supply to the brain is interrupted, leading to death of neural tissue

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Potential years of life lost (PYLL)

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A measure calculated by subtracting age of death from an individual’s life expectancy

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Vasculature

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The system of arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venues, and veins responsible for circulation of the blood to all parts of the body and its return to the heart

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Systolic blood pressure/ diastolic blood pressure

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A measure of the pressure of the blood flowing through the Vasculature. It is obtained by finding the number of millimetres of mercury displaced by a sphygmomanometer (blood pressure cuff)

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Cardiac output

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The amount of blood pumped by the heart

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Total peripheral resistance

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The diameter of the blood vessels

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Arrhythmias

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Disturbances in the normal pumping rhythm of the heart

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Atherosclerosis (Atherogenesis)

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A buildup of deposits, known as plaques, on the walls of the blood vessels

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Controllable risk factors

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Factors increasing the likelihood of a disease, such as poor diet or smoking, that are under the control on the individual

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Protective factors

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Events or circumstances that help to offset, or buffer, risk factors, anything that lessens the likelihood of disease. For example, exercise is thought to be a protective factor for cardiovascular disease

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Hypertension

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A characteristically high level of resting blood pressure (more than 140/80)

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Stress reactivity paradigm

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A viewpoint that sees the reaction to stress as important to an understanding of cardiovascular disease

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Cardiovascular reactivity

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How much an individual’s cardiovascular function changes in response to a psychologically significant stimulus

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Type A

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A syndrome of behaviours that includes hyper alertness and arousabilty, a chronic sense of time-urgency, competitiveness, hostility, and job-involvement

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Psychophysiological reactivity model’s theory of how hostility lead to health risk?

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  • hostile people are at higher risk because they experience exaggerated autonomic and neuroendocrine responses during stress
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Psychosocial vulnerability model for how hostility lead to health risk?

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Hostile people experience a more demanding interpersonal life than do others

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Transactional model for how hostility lead to health risk?

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A hybrid of the psychophysiological reactivity model and psychosocial model
- posits that the behaviour of hostile individuals constructs, by its natural consequences, a social world that is antagonistic and unsupportive. Consequent interpersonal stress and lack of social support increase the vulnerability of these people

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Health behaviour model for how hostility lead to health risk?

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  • hostile people may be more likely to engage in unhealthy behaviours and less likely to engage in healthy practices, such as exercise
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Constitutional vulnerability-how hostility lead to health risk?

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Suggests that he link between hostility and poor health outcomes is the result of a third variable, constitutional vulnerability, with which they are both associates

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Exhaustion

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The third phase of the general adaptation syndrome (GAS). If the challenge persists beyond the resistance phase, the body can no longer maintain resistance, and characteristic tissue changes occur. As this point, the organism may succumb to a disease of adaptation, such as an ulcer

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Anorexia nervosa

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Sufferers develop a morbid fear of fatness, perceive themselves as fat, and reduce their food intake to the point of emaciation

  • refusal to maintain normal weight
  • highest morbidity
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Bulimia nervosa

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Periods of food restriction alternate with periods of binge eating, wherein excessive amounts of food are consumed

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Binge-eating disorder (BED)

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Recurrent episodes of binge eating occur, however without the regular, inappropriate compensatory behaviours to try to rid the body of calories

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Purging behaviours

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Self-induced vomiting, laxative abuse, or abuse of enemas or diuretics

98
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Objective binge

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Consists of eating a large amount of food in a specific period of time

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Body mass index (BMI)

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Weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared

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Restricting type

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Individuals that attain their extremely low body weights through strict dieting, and sometimes, excessive exercise

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Binge-eating/ purging type

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Individuals not only engage in strict dieting (and possibly excessive exercise) but also regularly engage in binge eating and/ or purging behaviours

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Eating disorder examination (EDE)

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A structured clinical meter view die diagnosing eating disorders

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Lanugo

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The fine white hair that grows on individual with anorexia when they have no body fat left to keep themselves warm

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Amenorrhea

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The absence of at least three consecutive menstrual periods, often occurs in women with anorexia nervosa as well

105
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Russel’s sign

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An indication of bulimia in which scrapes or calluses occur on the back of the hands as a result of manual,y induced vomiting

106
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Precipitating factors

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Events or situations that trigger the eating disorder (e.g. Death of a loved one, transition into puberty, dieting)

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Perpetuating factors

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The physical and psychological symptoms that serve to maintain the disorder, such as reduced basal metabolic rate, delayed gastric emptying, social isolation, and depression

108
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Substance use disorder

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Recurrent substance use that results in significant adverse consequences in social or occupational functioning, or us of a substance that impairs one’s performance in hazardous situations for example drinking and driving

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Impairment of control

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Includes taking the substance in greater amount or for longer than intended

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Social impairment

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A failure to fulfill major role obligations at work, home, or school; continued use despite clear negative consequences on relationships; and the reduction of other involvements to give priority to using the substance

111
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Pharmacological dependence

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The indicators are tolerance and withdrawal

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Tolerance

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The person needs increased amounts of substance to achieve the same effect

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Withdrawal

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Unpleasant and sometimes dangerous symptoms, such as nausea, headache, or tremors when the addictive substance is removed from the body

114
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Substance-induced disorders

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Includes intoxication, withdrawal, and other substance- or medication-induced mental disorders

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Poly substance abuse

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The simultaneous misuse or dependence upon two or more substances

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Risky use

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Continued substance use in situations that might be hazardous, such as driving or operating machinery

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Low-risk drinking guidelines

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A research-based definition of the upper limits on drinking that is not likely to lead to physical impairment in people in general

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Ethyl alcohol

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The effective chemical compound in alcoholic beverages, which reduces anxiety and inhibitions, produces euphoria, and creates a sense of well-being

119
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Blood alcohol level (BAL)

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Alcohol level expressed as a percentage of blood volume

120
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Alcohol dehydrogenase

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An enzyme that helps break down alcohol in the stomach. Women have significantly less of this enzyme than men

121
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Blackouts

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Memory deficit caused by alcohol intoxicatingly in which an interval of time passes for which a person cannot recall key details or entire events

122
Q

Korsakoff’s psychosis

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A chronic disease characterized by impaired memory and a loss of contact with reality

123
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Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)

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Prenatal and postnatal growth retardation and central nervous system dysfunction due to alcohol consumption during pregnancy

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Behavioural disinhibition

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A personality trait describing an inability to inhibit behavioural impulses,rebelliousness, aggressiveness, and risk-taking that are associated with the development of alcohol problems

125
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Negative emotionality

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The tendency to experience psychological distress, anxiety, and depression that is associated with the development of alcohol problems

126
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Tension-reduction hypothesis

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Suggests that drinking is reinforced by its ability to reduce tension, anxiety, anger, depression, and other unpleasant emotions

127
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Alcohol expectancy theory

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Proposes that drinking behaviour is largely determined by the reinforcement that an individual expects to receive from its

128
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Behavioural tolerance effect

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Through the principles of classical conditioning, cues in the environment can become conditioned stimuli to the effects of drug use. These cues cause the individual to anticipate the drugs effects so that when the drug is actually administered the effects are diminished. Tolerance, or the need for a greater amount of drug for the same effect, is greatest when the conditioned environmental cues are present

129
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Minnesota model

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A residential treatment for alcohol dependence advocating a 12-step alcohol olives anonymous philosophy and viewing alcoholism as a disease

130
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Antagonist drug

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A neurotransmitter that inhibits the production of acetylcholine, a bodily substance that mediates the transmission of nerve impulses within the brain. Used as a pharmacological agent

131
Q

Agonist drug

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A neurotransmitter that facilitates the inhibitory action of the neurotransmitter GABA at its receptors. Used as a pharmacological agent for the treatment of alcohol dependance

132
Q

Antabuse

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Disulfiaram, a drug that is used to make the experience of drinking extremely aversive. It blocks the action of metabolizing enzyme acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, resulting in build-up of acetaldehyde in the body, like people who naturally lack this enzyme, people who drink alcohol after taking Antabuse experience increased heart rate, nausea, vomiting, and other unpleasant effects

133
Q

Relapse

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The return of an illness or disorder after a recovery

134
Q

Brief intervention

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One-to three session treatments, offering time-limited and specific advice regarding the need to reduce or eliminate alcohol and other drug consumption or gambling behaviour

135
Q

Motivational interviewing

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A therapeutic approach that is client- centred and helps to engage intrinsic motivation for changing behaviour by creating discrete and exploring and resolving ambivalence within the client

136
Q

Depressants

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Drugs that inhibit neurotransmitter activity in the central nervous system. Examples are alcohol, barbiturates (downers) and benzodiazepines

137
Q

Abstinence syndrome

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A reaction that many individuals experience during treatment for barbiturate abuse. It occurs at the stage at which the user is no longer dependant, and is characterized by insomnia, headaches, aching all over the body, anxiety, depression, and can last for months

138
Q

Stimulants

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A class of drugs that have a stimulating or arousing effect on the CNS and create their effects by influencing the rate of uptake of the neurotransmitters dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin at receptor sites in the brain. They include tobacco, amphetamines, cocaine, and caffeine

139
Q

Tobacco nicotine

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An extremely potent CNS stimulant related to amphetamines. The very small amount present in a cigarette is not lethal, and can increase alertness and improve mood. The pleasure centres of the brain seem to have receptors specific to it

140
Q

Amphetamines

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Drugs that have effects in the body similar to those of naturally occurring hormone adrenaline. Originally developed as a nasal decongestant and asthma treatment. In addition to shrinking mucous membranes and constricting blood vessels, they increase alertness and concentration. Chronic amphetamine use is associated with feelings of fatigue and sadness, as well as periods of social withdrawal and intense anger

141
Q

Toxic psychosis

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Hallucinations, delirium, and paranoia caused by repeated high doses of amphetamines

142
Q

Opioids

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A class of nervous system depressants whose main effects are the reduction of pain and sleep inducement

143
Q

Endogenous opiates

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The body’s natural painkillers

144
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Exogenous opiates

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Narcotics, which bind to receptor sites throughout the body, including the brain, spinal cord, and bloodstream, and reduce the body’s production of endogenous opiates

145
Q

Harm reduction approaches

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Approaches to treatment for alcohol and other drug abuse that focus on reducing the consequences of the use versus reducing or eliminating use

146
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Methadone

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A heroin replacement used to treat heroin addicts, often to reduce the craving after initial withdrawal symptoms have abated. Methadone therapy appears to work best in conjunction with good individual and group psychological intervention programs, as well as ongoing peer support

147
Q

Cannabis

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Hashish, which comes from the hemp plant cannabis sativa, indigenous to Asia but not grown in many parts of the world. Has psychoactive effects caused primarily by the chemical THC

148
Q

Amotivational syndrome

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A continuing pattern of apathy, profound self- absorption, detachment from friends and family, and abandonment of career and educational goals evident in some long term users of cannabis

149
Q

Hallucinogens

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Drugs that change a person’s mental state by inducing perceptual and sensory distortions of hallucinations

150
Q

Flash-backs

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Unpredictable reoccurrences of some of the physical or perceptual distortions experienced during a previous trip

151
Q

Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder

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Applied if flashbacks cause significant distress or interfere with social or curation all functioning

152
Q

Trait

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A personal quality that is characteristic of someone; that is, it is persistently displayed over time and in various situations. Every person manifests several traits, the combination of which makes up his or her personality

153
Q

Personality disorders

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Personality styles that are characterized by inflexible and pervasive behavioural patterns, often cause serious personal and social difficulties, and impair general functioning

154
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6 criterion in defining personality disorders in the DSM-5

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  1. Pattern of behaviour must be manifested in at least two of the following areas: cognition, emotions, interpersonal functioning, or impulse control
  2. Enduring pattern of behaviour must be rigid and consistent across a broad range of personal and social situations
  3. The behaviour should lead to clinically significant distress in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning
  4. Stability and long duration of symptoms, with onset in adolescence or earlier
  5. Behaviour cannot be accounted for by another mental disorder
  6. Behavioural problems cannot be he result of substance abuse or of another medical condition
155
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Clusters

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Groups of personality disorders. DSM-5 lists 10 personality disorders in three clusters

156
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Cluster B

A

Dramatic, emotional, or erratic disorders

Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic

157
Q

Paranoid personality disorder

A

Pattern of distrust and suspiciousness such that others’ motives are interpreted as malevolent

158
Q

Suspiciousness

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A generalized distrustful view of others and their motivations, but not sufficiently pathological to warrant a clinical diagnosis of paranoia

159
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Delusion

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False beliefs that are strongly held, even in the face of solid contradictory evidence. Such beliefs usually involve a misinterpretation of one’s experiences

160
Q

Cluster C

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Anxious and fearful disorders

Avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive

161
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Cluster A

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Odd and eccentric disorders

Paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal

162
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Emotional responsiveness

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Reflecting a range of appropriate and contextual emotions do different situations and individuals

163
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Eccentricity

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Generally describes behaviour that deviates from the norm and would be considered odd or whimsical

164
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Schizoid personality disorder

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A pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of emotional expression

165
Q

Psychopaths

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People who are considered to be predisposed via temperament to antisocial behaviour and whose primary characteristics include callousness and grandiosity combined with a history of poor self-regulation

166
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Sociopaths

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People who are considered to have normal temperament but who are weakly socialized because of environmental failures, including poor parenting, antisocial peers, and disorganized home and school experiences

167
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Fearlessness hypothesis

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A theory that suggests that psychopaths have a higher threshold for feeling fear than other people. Events that make most people anxious (such as the expectation of being punished) seem to have little or no effect on psychopaths

168
Q

Oppositional behaviour

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Refers to a tendency to do the opposite of what is being asked of the person

169
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Instability

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In the context of personality disorders, describes an individual who has maladaptive interpersonal relationships and decisions and is generally unable to effectively regulate emotions or behaviour

170
Q

Anxious ambivalent attachment

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The interpersonal style of a person who strongly desires intimacy with others and persistently seek out romantic relationships, but who, once they begin to get close to their partner, become anxious and back away; while they desire closeness, the appear to be afraid of it. People are considered to have developed these difficulties as a result of poor parent-child attachments that fail to I still the self-confidence and skills required for intimacy. (BPD)

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Schizotypal personality disorder

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A pattern of acute discomfort in close relationships, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and eccentricities of behaviour

172
Q

Antisocial personality disorder

A

A pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others

173
Q

Borderline personality disorder

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Pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity

174
Q

Histrionic personality disorder

A

A pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking

175
Q

Narcissistic personality disorder

A

A pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy

176
Q

Avoidant personality disorder

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A pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation

177
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Dependent personality disorder

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A pattern of submissive and clinging behaviour related to excessive need to be taken care of

178
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Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

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Pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control

180
Q

Cognitive restructuring

A

A technique used by cognitive- behavioural therapists to encourage clients to become aware of, and to question, their assumptions, expectations, attributions, and automatic thoughts

181
Q

Dialectical behaviour therapy

A

One of the cognitive-behavioural approaches to treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) ,one of whose main features is the acceptance by the therapist of the patients demanding and manipulative behaviours. In addition, several standard behavioural procedures are used, such as exposure treatment for the external and internal cues that evoke distress, skills training, contingency management, and cognitive restructuring

182
Q

Personality change due to another medical condition

A

Is a persistent personality disturbance that is judged to be due to the direct physiological effects of a medical condition

183
Q

Responsivity factor

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The circumstance that treatment must be responsive (or matched) to a particular client’s needs and interpersonal style- that is, it must be of sufficient intensity and relevance, and see by the patient as voluntary. Apparently, th efficacy of the treatment programs tend to be determined more by the orientations for the therapist of director

185
Q

Other specified personality disorder adu specified personality disorder

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1) the individuals personality meets the general criteria for a personality disorder, and traits id several different personality disorders are present, but the criteria for any specific personality disorder are not met or
2) the individual’s personality meets the general criteria for a personality disorder, but the individual is considered to have a personality disorder testing included in the DSM-5 classification

186
Q

Polythetic approach

A

Only a subset of symptoms or behaviours is required for a diagnosis

187
Q

Prevalence

A

The frequency of a disorder in a population at a given point or period of time

188
Q

Egosyntonic

A

They do not view their functioning as problematic

189
Q

Egodystonic

A

They cause distress and are viewed as problematic by the individual sufferer

190
Q

Comorbidity

A

The co-occurrence in the same person of two or more disorders

191
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Overlap

A

The similarity of symptoms in two or more disorders (ie same criteria apply to different diagnoses)

192
Q

Attachment theory

A

Asserts that children learn how to relate to others, particularly in affectionate ways, by the ways in which their parents relate to them

193
Q

Parasympathetic

A

Rest or digest

194
Q

Sympathetic

A

Fight or flight

195
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HPA axis

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Hypothalamus–> CRH–> pituitary gland–> ACTH–> adrenal gland–> cortisol/ adrenaline and noradrenalin

196
Q

Psychosocial factors that influence the disease process

A
  • social status: people higher social hierarchies better resistance to stress and live longer
  • controllability: people who believe they are in control & overestimate ability bring about positive outcomes cope better
  • social support: people who are highly connected with others live longer; low social support contributes to making existing disease worse
197
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Psychosocial oncology or psychoncology

A

The study of psychosocial factors associated with the development and course of cancer, and the factors associated with the support, treatment, and quality of life of cancer patients throughout the disease trajectory

198
Q

Cancer & psychological factors

A
  • helplessness, repression and negative emotions
  • depression
  • smoking, weight problems, poor diet etc.
199
Q

Risk factors of cardiovascular disease

A
  • Gender, low SES, family history
  • Type A behaviour
  • hostility
  • continual or intense stress
  • depression
200
Q

Eating disorders

A

Severe disturbances in eating behaviours that negatively affect the persons physical or mental health

201
Q

3 major subtypes of eating disorder in the DSM

A
  • anorexia nervosa
  • bulimia nervosa
  • binge eating disorder (BED)
202
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Two subtype of anorexia nervosa:

A
  • Restricting type: individual restricts amount of food they eat to the extreme
  • binge eating/ purging type
203
Q

Comorbid psychological disorders of anorexia

A

OCD, obsessive- compulsive personality disorder, depression

204
Q

Comoros psychological disorders with bulimia

A

Depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, substance abuse

205
Q

Other specified/ unspecified eating disorder

A
  • disorders do not meet full criteria for a diagnosis of eating disorder
  • atypical anorexia, sub threshold bulimia, purging disorder, night eating syndrome
206
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Epidemiology of eating disorders

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  • highest mortality rate
  • more common in women
  • affects mostly industrialized developed words
  • age of onset: late adolescence/ early adulthood
207
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Social factors eating disorders:

A
  • more common in fields that emphasize weight and appearance
  • more commune in females report greater exposure to media
  • more common middle to upper class white females
  • higher prevalence in Arab and Asian females living in America than in native countries
208
Q

Psychological factors eating disorders:

A

-struggle for control
- depression, low self-esteem
- negative body image
- dietary restraint leading to binges
Personality factors: perfectionism, obsessiveness, compliance, lack of awareness of inner feelings, negative self-concept

209
Q

Weight set point theory

A

Idea body is set for a specific weigh

210
Q

Substance abuser

A

Pattern of substantive use associated with personal, healthy, or social problems

211
Q

Substance dependence

A

Repeated use of a drug resulting in tolerance

212
Q

Craving

A

Compelling need for a drug

213
Q

Drug of abuse

A

A chemical that alters mood, perception, and/ or brain functioning

214
Q

What is withdrawal most severe for?

A

Most severe for alcohol, opiods, and sedatives/ hypnotics

215
Q

4 groupings of indicators of substance use disorders:

A
  • impairment of control
  • social impairment
  • risky use
  • pharmacological criteria
216
Q

Which drug is the most harmful?

A

Alcohol

217
Q

Where are rates of substance use typically higher?

A

Males, younger people with lower formal education, blue- collar workers, and aboriginal Canadians

218
Q

Older people tend to

A

Drink less but use more prescription drugs

219
Q

3 stages of etiology of alcohol use:

A
  • initiation and continuation
  • escalation and transition to abuse
  • development of tolerance and withdrawal
220
Q

PD diagnosis and reliability

A

Inter-rater reliability good, but test-retest reliability poor

221
Q

Important characteristics of PDs

A
  • long standing
  • pervasive, usually with a central personality characteristic that dominates whole personality
  • social distress
  • ego- syntonic
222
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Cognitive behavioural aspects of PDs

A
  • schemas early in life become rigid & become comfortable
  • invalidation child’s emotional experienced & simplistic problem solving
  • parents model
  • bad child discipline
223
Q

Biological perspectives PDs

A

Frontal temporal dysfunctions
Fronto-limbic dysfunction
Heritable

224
Q

Highest prevalence rates PDs

A

Antisocial, schizotypal, hystroionic most

Narcissistic least

225
Q

What cluster of patients is most likely to get help?

A

Cluster B

226
Q

Cluster A more common in

A

Men who have never married

227
Q

Cluster B more pre leant in

A

Young, portly educated men

228
Q

Cluster C more common in

A

People who finished H.S. But never married

229
Q

Men C’a women

A

Antisocial personality more common in men (avoidant, dependent, paranoid, and borderline PDs more commonly diagnosed women)

Abnormal psychology (3 decks)

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