Misc. Flashcards
How many Americans affected by psy disorders each year?
1 in 2
how many adult americans receive help each year?
15%
how many americans diagnosed each year?
1 in 4
how many homless have psy disorders?
60%
EMG
electromyograph measures muscle tension and placement on head indicates tension headheaches
Clinical Psychologists who can admin drugs?
New Mexico and Louisinia
Clinical Psychologist
Have doc degree in psy(PHD) a doc of psy(PSYD) or an EDU.
Counseling Psychologist
Have doc degree
Counselors
earn masters degree
Amok
asian; an episode where persons strikes out at others and kills them.
Falling out or blacking out
occurs in carribean groups, fainting
Ghost sickenss
occurs in indians; preoccupation with death.
Koro
Found in china; fear of rentals retracting into body
Zar
Africans; possession
Diagnostic inflatation
-2
proliferation of new mental disorders (premenstrual dysphoric mood and binge eating disorders)
Selective abstraction
focus exclusively on; student focussing on bad grade.
Overgeneralization
overgeneralize from a few isolated situations. Thinking you want marry bc of one date.
Magnification
Blow out of proportions the importance of unfortunate events. A bad test grade leads you to conclude you will flunk out of college.
Absolutist thinking
Work evaluation is good or complete fail
excess of phlegm
sluggish or lethargic
excess of black bile
melancholia, depresion
excess of blood
sanguine; happy
excess of yellow bile
chloreic-quick tempered
What makes disorders so difficult to diagnose?
- assessments are more subjective
- most ppl demonstrate comorbidity
- therapists are biased towards their approaches
