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Dissociation

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Lack of normal integration of thoughts, feelings and experiences

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Disscociative Amnesia

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Inability to recall significant personal information in the absence of organic impairment

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Localized amnesia

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Information from a specific time period

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Selective amnesia

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Some parts of the trauma are forgotten

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Generalized amnesia

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All personal information from the past

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Continuous amnesia

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Information from a certain date until the present

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Systematized Amnesia

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Certain categories of information

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Dissociative fugue

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Forget who they are and travel suddenly away from their home

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Depersonalization

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Distinct sense of unreality and detachment from their own thoughts, feelings and body

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Derealization

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Feelings of unreality and detachment from one’s surroundings rather than oneself

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Trauma model

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Dissociative disorders are a result of severe childhood trauma accompanied by predisposing personality traits

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Socio- cognitive Model

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Multi personality is a form of role playing where people begin to act in ways consistent with the views of the therapist

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Iatrogenic

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Caused by treatment

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Conversion Disorder

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Loss of functioning in a part of the body without underlying medical abnormality to explain it

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La belle indifference

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Nonchalant lack of concern about nature and implications of one’s symptoms

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Somatic symptom disorder

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Multiple, recurrent somatic symptoms that are very distressing and cause major disruption in persons life

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Somatic symptom disorder with predominant pain

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Pain in one or more body sites that causes distress

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Illness Anxiety Disorder

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Preoccupied with fear they have a serious disease but there is nothing wrong with them

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Facticious Disorder

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Deliberately fake symptoms of illness or injury to gain medical attention

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Body dysmorphic disorder

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Excessive preoccupation with an imagined or exaggerated body disfigurement

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Which NS branches are involved in respondent and operant consitioning

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Respondent: Autonomic
Operant: Somatosensory

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Systematic Desensitization

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Trained relaxation response to treat anxiety

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Behavioural activation

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What did you used to enjoy? Make them want to do these things

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Rational Emotive Therapy

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ABC: Activating event
Belief
Consequence

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6 common cognitive distortions
``` Personalizing Catastrophizing Jumping to conclusions Unrelenting standards All or nothing thinking Emotional Reasoning ```
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Psychopathology
Medical model of disorders infers that there is a biological basis
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Necessary
All people with the abnormality have the characteristic
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Suffcient
No people without the abnormality have the characteristic
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How many symptoms do you need to diagnose panic disorder
4/13
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2 times when most people get diagnosed with panic disorder
Late teens | 30's
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How many situations must you fear to have agoraphobia
2/5
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Clark's cognitive model of panic
Fear perpetuates phobic reaction to own bodily sensation
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Galton
People with inferior intellectual, social or economic functioning were defective
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Balance of humours
Cheerfullness: blood Ill member: Yellow bile Gloom: black bile Listlessness: phlegm
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St Vitus Dance
Epidemic of mass hysteria in the middle ages
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Paracelsus
Spiritus vitae was upset by the stars causing lunacy
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Kraepelin
Created the first diagnostic system
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Theresa Avila
Said hysterical nuns were sick and saved them
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St vincent de paul
Society's duty to protect the mentally ill
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Bedlam
Roudy, chaotic behaviour
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La Bicetre
Patients shackled to the walls
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Moral Therapy
Rush-- Patients could be controlled without restraints by means of respect , rest and activities
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Morel
First to suggest genetic influence
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Krraft- Ebing
Disorders acquired by infection
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General Paresis
Syphillis caused mania, euphoria followed by brain degeneration
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Wagner- Jauregg
Infected syphillis patients with tuberculosis to induce a fever
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Sakel
Incillin induced coma alleviated morphine addiction and dysfunction
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Hindbrain
Autonomic NS activities like digestion and heart beat
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Midbrain
Reticular Activation System controls arousal
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4 ways neurotransmitters can cause abnormality
``` Too much Too little Too few/ too many receptors Too much/ too little deactivating enzymes Reuptake is too fast or slow ```
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Dopamine
Movement, attention and reward High in schizophrenia Low in depression and parkinsons
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Norepinephrine
Alertness, energy, appetite | Low in depression, high in mania
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Serotonin
Mood, sleep, appetite, aggression | Low in depression and OCD
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GABA
Inhibits anxiety response
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SSRI
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
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MAOI
Monoamine oxidaze inhibitors | Inhibit enzymes
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Antipsycotics
Block receptors
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Benzodiazepines
Increase receptor sensitivity
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Catharsis
Identifying traumatic experiences during hypnosis
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Id
Drives demand instant gratification (pleasure)
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Ego
Curbs Id desires to avoid pain or discomfort (reality)
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Superego
Moral standards of society
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Ellis
People behave self- defeatingly because of their irrational beliefs
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Beck
Emotions and behaviour are influenced by cognitive apprasials
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Beck's 3 levels of cognition
Schemas Information processing/ intermediate beliefs Automatic thoughts
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Schema
Internal representations of stored information
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Content specificity
Different types of beliefs are associated with different types of behaviour
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Humanistic
People form their sense of self and the world through experience
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Rogers
Person centred-- self fulfillment achieved by accepting oneself, being honest, trusting experience and relying on oneself for personal evaluation
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Maslows hierarchy of needs
``` Physiological Safety Belongingness Esteem Self actualization ```
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Existentialist
Awareness of one's existence is critical in human functioning
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Angst
Awareness of possibility of non- being causes anxiety
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Labelling theory
Being identified with a disorder makes people see you differently
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Diathesis stress model
Disorder determined by combination of stress and predisposition
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Taxonomy
Science of classification
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Nosology
Classification of diseases
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Reliability
Give the same measurement for a thing everytime
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Inter rater reliability
Extent to which two clinicians agree on a diagnosis
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Validity
Whether a category is able to predict disorders accurately
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Antheoretical
Does not endorse a theory
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Polythetic
Person can be diagnosed without meeting all criteria
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Internal consistency
Degree of reliability within a test
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Face validity
Test items resemble characteristics of concept being tested
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Content validity
Test content includes a representative sample of all behaviours related to construct
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Criterion Validity
People who we already know have greater ability score higher on the test
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Clinical approach
No substitute for clinician's experience and judgement
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Actuarial Approach
Use statistics and empirical evidence to evaluate data
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CAT scan
Computerized axial tomography
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MRI
Magnetic resonance imagery
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PET
Positron Emmission Tomography
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Gestalt Test
Draw shapes and lines from memory
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6 Halstead- Reitan tests
``` Category Rythym Tactual Performance Tapping Grip strength Auditory ```
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Rapport
Mutual trust and respect between clinician an patient
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Mental status examination
Semi structured interview to assess emotional, intellectual and neurological functioning
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Who developed the first intelligence test
Galton
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Binet
Predict academic performance and need for special education
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Intelligence Quotient
Mental age/ chronological age x 100
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5 stanford- binet intelligence scales
``` Reasoning Knowledge Visual- spatial Quantitative Working ```
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Weschler Adult Intelligence Test
4 verbal 3 working memory 5 perceptual reasoning 3 processing speed
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Personality assessment
Quantitative unlike intelligence scores
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Projective test
Project unconscious emotions onto presented ambiguous object
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Thematic appreciation test
Construct stories about ambiguous pictures
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
567 T/F on 10 content scales. Show clear differences in people with disorder
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Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory
Judges personality disorders. 175 T/F on 24 scales
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Personality Assessmnet Inventory
344 items on a 4 point scales
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Analogue observational setting
Artificial setting in lab constructed to elicit behaviour
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Reactivity
Change in behaviour when person knows they are being observed
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SORC
Stimuli Organismic- biological factors Response Consequence
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Quasi experiment
Experimental group is chosen based on desired characteristics
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Single Subject design
Experiement with one person-- not a case study
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ABAB (reversal)
Baseline, intervention, return to baseline, intervention
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Incidence
New cases in a time period
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Prevelence
Frequency of disorder at a given point in time
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Two factor theory
Fear develops through classical conditioning and maintained through operant
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Seligman
We are biologically prepared to fear certain stimuli
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Prevalence of specific phobias
7-15 % -- 2:1 for women
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Thought action fusion
Belief that having a thought increases probability of that event Belief that thought is moral equivalent of action
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PTSD prevelence
3- 10% general 15-17% returning soldiers 50% rape victims **2x more likely in women
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Acute Stress Disorder
PTSD that lasts less than a month

Abnormal Psychology (6 decks)

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