Psych Exam #1 Flashcards
Dorthea Dix
Reformed mental health treatment; opened 32 state hospitals that offered asylum; advocated for shelter, nutritious food, and warm clothes
Insane Asylums
1790s; safe haven or refuge offering protections from institutions where people had been whipped, burned, beaten, and starved due to mental illness
Who created insane asylums?
Philippe Pinel and William Turke
First 2 drugs to be developed?
Lithium and Chlorpromazine
Psychotropic Drugs
Developed in 1950 to treat mental illness
Drugs developed within 10 years of development?
MAIOs, Haloperidol, Tricyclics, Antipsychotics, and Benzodiazepines
What was the aim for psychopharmacology
decrease agitation, psychotic thinking, depression, shorten hospital stays, discharges to home
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Income (SSDI)
Allowed those with mental illness to be more independent financially rather than relying on family (saved the state money)
Sigmund Freud
Father of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud: ID
reflects basic or innate desires such as pleasure-seeking behaviors, aggression, and sexual impulses. Seeks gratification, causes impulsive thinking, no regard to rules
Sigmund Freud: Superego
reflects morals and ethical concepts, values, parental and social expectations- opposite of ID
Sigmund Freud: Ego
balancing or mediating force between ID and Superego; mature and adaptive behavior (anxiety)
Transference
Displaced onto the therapist, attitudes, and feelings that the client experienced in other relationships (automatic and unconscious)
Countertransference
The Therapist displaces onto client from past
Erikson’s Development
Trust vs. Mistrust (infant);
Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt (toddler);
Initiative vs. Guilt (Preschool);
Industry vs. Inferiority (school age); Identity vs. Role Confusion (adolescent); Intimacy vs. Isolation (young adult); Generativity vs. Stagnation (middle adult); Ego integrity vs. Despair (maturity)
Orientation Phase
Directed by nurse, involves engaging the patient in treatment, provides information, answers questions
Identification Phase
Begins when the patient works independently with the nurse, expresses feelings, feels stronger
Exploitation Phase
The patient will make full use of the services offered
Resolution Phase
Patient no longer needs professional services and gives up dependent behavior
Agonist
Increases effects of neurotransmitter
Encourages molecules to bind to that receptor
AKA: copycats because they mimic neurotransmitters
Antagonist
Block something from happening and reduce normal effects
4 Components of the Brain Stem
Midbrain, Pons, Medulla Oblongata, Nuclei CN III-XII
Serotonin
An important role in anxiety, mood disorders, and schizophrenia which is associated with delusions and hallucinations
*some antidepressants block serotonin reuptake
Efficacy
Maximal therapeutic effect that drug can achieve