personal and professional development Flashcards
stigma
discrimination (actively carrying out your views on X people)
ignorance
having slanted views on X people
prejudice
I hate X people
mental illness
abnormal distressing experiences.
felt stigma
you feel that people discriminate against you because of your illness
enacted stigma
when you are actually discriminated due to your illness
psychosis
unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy
neurosis
you can make the distinguish between the reality and fantasy
whats organic mental illness
physiological explanation (dementia)
functional mental illness?
no real explanation (anxiety)
what are the 5 models of psychiatry
- biological model
- social model
- psychodynamic/phsycoanaltic model
- behavioural model
- cognitive model
biological model =
mental illness, biochemical changes in brain
social model =
social influences can awaken mental illness and equally important in preventing its appearance (agoraphobic)
psychodynamic/psychoanalytic model =
mental life is unconscious, but influences conscious thoughts and behaviours, mental illness symptoms = Windows into unconscious processes
behavioural model
behaviour (good and bad) is learnt (CBT) - aversion therapy and systemic desensitisation
