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aberrant

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departing from an accepted standard

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paraphilia

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condition characterised by abnormal sexual desire

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fetish epidemiology

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onset is early, nearly all males, 65% have more than one fetish object, little chance of spontaneous remission.

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what do behavioural accounts explain

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behaviour - not diagnosis.

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classical conditioning based intervention to fetishes

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aversion therapy - counter conditioning.

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classical conditioning limitations with fetishes

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lack of generalisations, individual differences, non-uniform distribution of fetish objects, elimination of problem not sufficient as many have multiple fetishes.

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operant conditioning intervention with fetishes

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masturbatory satiation, verbal satiation, orgasmic reconditioning.

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when do diagnostic definitions of change

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for social, cultural or ideological reasons in psychopathology

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aetiology

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explanation is more powerful than description and involves consideration of the underlying causal mechanisms.

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what does explanation have direct implications on

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assessment and treatment.

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learning is not….

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aberrant (the behaviour that is learned is undesirable not learning itself)

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features of depression

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affect, no motivation, negative self opinion, reduced activity, fatigue, weight change.

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psychoanalytic theory

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attributed to freud, made up of three components (ID, superego, ego)

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superego

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moral principle and values

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ego

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balanced tension between super and ID.

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ID

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things we get pleasure from, driving individual towards gaining pleasure

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where are psychopathologies

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beneath the surface which creates a problem for people trying to fix their problems.

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correspondence between grief and depression

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depressed as a response to loss of a loved one - symbol loss where there is a part of the self that also becomes lost.

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introjection

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integration of identifies of self with loves lost ones (part of the lost one becomes part of you).

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regression

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reverse back to the oral stage of development - a point of dependence.

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limitations of psychoanalytic account

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they ascribe purpose to symptoms, they defy validation, not disorder specific, may explain limited aspects of disorder

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the cognitive triad

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patients hold a negative view of the self, the world, the future.

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idiosyncratic

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a mode of behaviour or way of thought peculiar to an individual

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logical errors in reasoning with depression

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just to conclusion, take note of only the positive, draw sweeping conclusions, thinking in all or none terms.

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cognitive schema
organised cognitive representations of prior experience that facilitate information processing
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strengths of the cognitive model
does not provide direction, does not explain diversity, individual differences, sensitisation to stressors over time, normal and abnormal differences.
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criterion keyed
based on a criterion such as the statistical property of the item
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reliability
the replicability of a score
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ways of testing reliability
alternate form, split half, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, inter-weed
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validity
the meaningfulness of a score
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measures of validity
concurrent validity, predictive validity, content validity, face validity.
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why is psychometrics important
we cannot understand abnormal psychology without understanding the psychometrics.
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relationship between reliability and validity
without reliability, it is impossible to demonstrate validity, both are essential characteristics of a useful psychiatric test.
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why do we study personality
it informs the likelihood of distress, hints at the form of distress, personality itself may be considered a disorder.
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how do personality and mental disorders relate
we can use personality to predict mental disorder or vice versa which can help our research.
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personality disorder
enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour, deviating from exceptions of an individuals culture and is manifested over one of two (cognition, affect, interpersonal function, impulse control) is inflexible, leads to impairment, stable and long duration.
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continuous and discontinuous constructs
continuous = dimensions, continuum all carry some risk discontinuous = category, some at risk some not.
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diathesis is dimensional theory
we have three dimensions everyone fits into (extraversion/introversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism).
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psychoticism
aggressive, cold, egocentric, impersonal, impulsive, antisocial, umempathetic, creative, though minded.
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schizotaxia as an inherited discontinuous diathesis theory
is a necessary but not sufficient precondition for schizophrenia. there is a normal continuum and a schizotypy continuum.
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how do we know if a construct is dimensional or not
by looking at the way variation in the construct occurs across a population.
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throughout history personality has bee linked with psychopathology...
- descriptively - as a liability state - as a pathology in itself.
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is normality, personality and psychopathology thought of as continuous or discontinuous
continuous (like a dimension)
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models that fit with continuity
worry, distress features of depression, borderline personality disorder
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models that fit with discontinuity
bulimia, schizophrenia proneness and vegetative features of depression.
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variance of expressions of suicide
thoughts, communication, behaviour.
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suicide states
``` 685 (2019) 73% male Maori rates much higher female self harm more high compared to other countries. ```
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challenges for suicide studies
low rates, study criteria exclude suicidal patients, psychological assessment is not possible when someone has died, very few affective treatments.
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risk factors for adolescents
mental health, physical health, sexual experiences, family, education, peer relations.
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poor predictors of suicide
clinical judgment and self-report.
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what do univariate studies show
people who attempt suicide report higher rates of negative stressful life events, cognitive rigidity, can't think divergently, hopelessness.
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what is a good predictor of suicide intent
hopelessness - better predictor than depression.
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impersonal theory of suicide
thwarted belonging, perceived burdensomeness, acquired capability for suicide.
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three step theory of suicide
pain + hopelessness, connectedness, capability for suicide.
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predicting suicide
many things predict suicide but prediction does not imply cause. some risk factors may be consequences of disorder.
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treatments that work
contacting people, getting help, protecting autonomy.
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what do anxiety and fear involve?
interpersonal, behavioural, subjective and physiological expressions.
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difference between fear and anxiety
fear is not a known threat, anxiety is about a future undetermined threat.
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what do we need to do to understand dysfunction?
consider all process mechanisms (levels of description), distinguish process from cause (explanation).
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reductionist explanations
lower levels causes - not inherently better than higher level ones.
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chemical imbalance
this theory is a myth and entrenched reductionist idea.
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can one theory explain a disorder
no, it is too difficult to explain the full variety of what is seen in a disorder with one theory.
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which features are important in an explanatory framework
not all of them are but select features can be very important.
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experimental pathology
concerned with understanding cognitive information processing using experimental paradigms.
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schizophrenia
complex set of heterogenous features, formal thought disorder seen as a central sign.
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formal thought disorder
measured through speech, key sign of schizophrenia, linked to disrupted activation in the semantic network.
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positive and negative symptoms
things that are now there that wouldn't normally be vs. things disappeared that would normally be there.
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a theory of FTD
impaired inhibitory mechanism the semantic network result in intrusions of activated associations into speech.
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with schizophrenia activation in semantic memory
spreads more quickly and spreads more diffusely (greater when FTD is a symptom)
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functional analysis of a disorder
antecedents (what comes before the behaviour and what may cause it) behaviour (what we see that characterise what might be changeable in a person) consequences (distress the behaviour causes)
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genetic factors in disorders
can be a cause and be present however we can still use environmental/behavioural changes to lessen symptoms.
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contemporary clinical psychological framework
applying the scientific method: hypothesising and testing treatment and revising if the treatment didn't work. tailored to individual cases.
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medication and schizophrenia
often used but not well tolerated.
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what can lessen the impact of psychosis on functioning
cognitive and behavioural interventions.
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features of mania
euphoric or irritable, inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, racing thoughts, flight of ideas, distractible, excessive engagement in high risk activities.
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bipolar disorder
bipolar disorder is characterised by episodes of psychological disfunction of mania and depression.
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bipolar 1 disorder
mania, depression, and hypomania.
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bipolar 2 disorder
hypomania and depression
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course of bipolar
mania occurs before or after depression with no gap in between, high rates of reoccurrence, duration of wellness decreases with time, common onset is early 20s.
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how are stressors relevant to bipolar
stressor events are related to severity, frequency and time taken to recover from bipolar.
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Post's two idea
kindling (stimulation that is insufficient to produce behavioural effects produced intermittently can lead to development of those effects ) and sensitisation (increasing behavioural responses to intermittent stimuli.
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Post's four observations (bipolar)
recurrence of episodes is the norm, frequency of reoccurrence increases with time, new symptoms add to old ones, later episodes are more severe and have a more acute onset.
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four components of Post's theory
real loss, real reaction, mechanism leading to increasing recurrence, mechanism leading to emergence of manic behaviour.
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what role does the environment play in development of mental disorders
a big one affecting the likelihood of a disorder occurring, the course of the disorder and the severity. We may or may not notice the impact of us.
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what is the link between environment and psychopathology
not in the past, or fixes, fluid and changing and universal.
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what also plays a critical receiver role when talking about stressors
personal characteristics both biological and psychological and stress sensitivity.

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