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Module 30-32 Flashcards

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Psychological Disorder

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a harmful dysfunction in which thoughts, feelings, or behaviors are maladaptive, unjustifiable, disturbing and atypical

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maladaptive

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destructive to oneself

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Unjustifiable

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without a rational basis

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Disturbing

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troublesome to other people

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Atypical

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so different that it violates a norm

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MUDA

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Maladaptive, Unjustifiable, Disturbing, Atypical

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Dr. Philippe Pinel

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was one of the first to treat
patients humanely

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Medical model

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concept that mental diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured

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Bio-psycho-social model

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study how biological, psychological, and social factors combine and interact to produce
psychological disorders
-Nature and Nurture

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positive psychology movement

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have examined the conditions that allow communities and individuals to flourish

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Chris Peterson, 6 “un-DSM”

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Wisdom and Knowledge
Courage
Humanity
Justice
Temperance
Transcendence

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Anxiety

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a vague feeling of apprehension and nervousness

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generalized anxiety disorder

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Disruptive levels of persistent, unexplained feelings of apprehension and tenseness
-Lasts 6 months or so
-Sufferers worry constantly
-2/3 are women
-Those affected usually cannot identify, relieve or avoid their
anxiety

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Panic disorders

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Marked by sudden bouts of intense, unexplained panic
-An intense fear that something horrible is about to happen
-You may have irregular heartbeat, chest pains, shortness of
breath, choking, or trembling

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agoraphobia

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Afraid to leave their comfort zone usually their house

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Hoarding disorder

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cluttering a home with acquired
possessions a person can’t part with

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Body dysmorphic disorder

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preoccupation with perceived
body defects

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Trichotillomania

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hair-pulling

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Excoriation disorder

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excessive skin-picking

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Biological factors

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heredity
brain function
evolution

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Learning factors

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observational learning
conditioning
reinforcement

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Mood disorders

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Mania
Depression

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attribution

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When things go wrong, we try to explain them

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Depressed people are likely to make attributions with the
following characteristics:

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Stable – the bad situation will last a long time
Internal – this happened to me because of my actions
Global – my explanation applies to many areas of my life

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Dissociative Disorders, your sense of self has become separated from your memories, thoughts or feelings.

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1) amnesia

2) fugue

3) identity disorder

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Dissociative Amnesia

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Memory loss
-Any number of factors can cause it
-To qualify as a DA, memory loss must be a
reaction to a traumatic event
-Some type of personal or natural disaster
-You may lose all memories of the event

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Dissociative Fugue

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An extended form of DA
characterized by loss of identity and travel to a new location
-May be a few hours, or a
few years
-May develop a new identity,
new friends, new job
-It is an unconscious
response to extreme stress

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities
-Subpersonalities can differ in age, sex, and perception of physical characteristics
-Some are aware of each other, others are not
-Very rare

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Somatoform Disorders

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Symptoms take a bodily form without apparent physical cause
-Reasons behind doctor visits are “medically unexplained”

30
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Hypochondria

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imagined symptoms of illness
-Headaches, joint pains, etc
-Medical exam reveals nothing wrong physically
-It is literally “all in their head”

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Conversion disorder (aka hysteria)

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Sudden loss of physical function
-Sudden blindness, laryngitis, paralysis, speaking ability, etc.
-Have you ever been so frightened you aren’t able to move or speak?
-Has become very rare in modern times

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delusions of grandeur

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Belief you are more important than you really are
- May believe you are someone famous like a political figure or
religious leader

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Delusions of Persecution

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False beliefs that people are out to get you
Ex: Someone is following you or that the CIA is engaging
in an elaborate plot to capture you

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Delusions of Sin or Guilt

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False beliefs of being responsible for some misfortune

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Delusion of sin or guilt

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Like believing it is your fault a plane crashed because you forgot to brush your teeth

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Delusions of Influence

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False beliefs of being controlled by outside forces
“the devil made me do it”

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Word salad

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nonsense talk

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paranoid schizophrenia

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Characterized by delusions
-Specifically grandeur and persecution
-Hallucinations often support the delusions

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Catatonic Schizophrenia

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Characterized by variations in voluntary movement
-Alternates between two phases
-Catatonic excitement – rapid movements, delusions and hallucinations
-Catatonic stupor – very little activity or speech
-Flat emotion and waxy flexibility are often part of this

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Disorganized Schizophrenia

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Characterized by bizarre behavior, delusions and hallucinations
-They are visibly disturbed to other people
-In the old days, people thought they had “gone mad”

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Undifferentiated Schizophrenia

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Characterized by symptoms that are disturbed but are not
clearly consistent with one of the three other types

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Cause of Schizophrenia

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-Genetics
-Brain structure
Larger, fluid filled spaces around the tissue
Thalamus is smaller (hurts attention span)
-Brain function
Frontal lobes
Dopamine receptors are increased 6 times
-Prenatal Viruses
Viral infection during pregnancy

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Psychological Factors

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Stress
Disturbed family communication

44
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Personality disorders

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divides into 3 categories
-anxiety
-odd behavior
-dramatic or impulsive behavior

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Anxiety personality disorders

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A) avoidant personality disorder- sensitive about being rejected that personal relationships are difficult
B) dependent personality disorder
-behave clingy
C) Obsessive-Compulsive personality Disorder
-Aka Anankastic PD

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