Psychological Disorders Flashcards
What is the schizophrenia?
Psychosis- loss of contact with reality
What are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
Adds unwanted symptoms that increase psychosis
Name the symptoms of schizophrenia
Loose associations Thought disturbance Random thoughts Neologisms (make up words) Delusions Hallucinations "Splitting of the self"
What are delusions?
False beliefs that includes psychosis
Ex: someone was there
What are hallucinations?
False sensations: auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory and gustatory hallucinations
What is the bio part of the etiology of schizophrenia?
- Genetics (run in families)
- Excess levels of dopamine
- Viral hypothesis: Neurons in hippocampus gets
What is the psycho part of the etiology os schizophrenia?
- Drug use (correlated with schizophrenia)
- Schizophrenogenic mother
- Families with high levels pr negative expressed emotions are more likely into the illness
What is the social part of etiology?
- Poverty (15% are affected) homelessness
- Deinstitutionalization movement
- downward drift theory
What is the typical and atypical antipsychotic medications?
- Typical: Less used because they have a side effect of movement( Tarolire Dyskensia)
- Atypical : used more
Additionally
Delusion of Persecution
Delusion of grandeur
Thought Insertion
Idea (delusion) of reference
Premorbid adjustment means:
Morbid: means resilent (practico, flexible con las personas)
Coping, high level of functioning, socially supportive, relationships
What is the continuum of the compulsive disorder (OCD)?
Normal health—————-> Unhealthy
What are the obsessions in the OCD?
- Intrusive unwelcomed thoughts
1. Fear of death of self violence
2. Fear of death of others via violence
3. Fear of contamination of infection
What are the compulsions in the OCD?
Rituals that reduce the possibility the obsession would come through.
What are the 3c’s of compulsive in OCD?
- Checking
- Counting
- Cleaning
What are the anxiety disorders?
- Specific Phobias- Treatment
- Social Anxiety Disorder (fear of being judged by others and humiliation)- Social interactions- group therapy
- Panic Disorder
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
- They worry more than they don’t
- Metaworry: The person worry about how much they worry
- High intolerance , they are strong
Ex: Overwhelmed at school and work, normal people relax but people with GAD do not relax they keep thinking about it
How is the panic disorder works?
- Characterized recurrent, unprovoked panic attacks
- Avoidant/ fear of having another panic attack.
- Agoraphobia: fear of being separated from safe place or person.
- Treatment: Medicines, and …
What is Agoraphobia in the Panic disorder?
Fear of being separated from safe place or person.
How does a panic attack occurs?
They feel a “sense of doom” (something is not okay) for 2 min, then it activates really fast a 100% the amygdala is normal and then alerts you and activates the thalamus to activate the panic
How long it takes to calm down a panic attack?
Is going to take 20 to 24 hours to calm down
How are the psychologists therapies for panic attacks?
They last like 3 months so that you can avoid to activate the panic attack
What are the dissociative disorders?
Is in a continuum
- We all dissociate, we do highway hypnosis (break in memory) (normal)
- To people that has dissociative amnesia (trauma) (fuguestate), longer period than the normal
- The most extreme is the Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
What is highway hypnosis?
Cuando uno como se pierde por unos minutos y luego como que despierta y se da cuenta que ya ha pasado un tiempo sin estar consientes pero funcionando como un robot.
Most known as a break in your memory
What is fuguestate and dissociative fugue “flee” travel?
- Fuguestate: Time they lose and they are still functional
- Dissociative Fugue “flee” travel: they drive across the country and just do it for a long time (rare). They can’t remember anything before the fuguestate , they do not remember their names or anything. When they get conscious after months they don’t remember the fugestates period
What is the dissociative identity disorder?
Multiple personalities
Define psychopatology
Deviation resulting from an abnormality of the body
What is abnormal?
Is determined when the phenomenon is deemed to be statistically rare
What is the purpose of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
The standard classification system for making a clinical diagnosis. Avoids etiology( avoids the cause)
What os anxiety?
Is a natural part of life that helps us to function at our best
