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Psychological Disorders Flashcards

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Deviance

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Having thoughts or behaviours that are far from the typical behaviour of others

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Distress

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Negative feelings related to thoughts and behaviour

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Disfunction

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Interferes with person’s ability to function in daily lives. Difficulty completing everyday tasks.

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Danger

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Safety risk to oneself or others assoiciated with thought or behaviour

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DSM

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Categorize and classify mental disorders so clinicians have a common set of criteria for diagnosing symptoms. Allows researchers to talk to each other about mental disorders.

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Categorical Model

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Classified items differ from each other in kind. Defined by rigid boundaries.

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Dimensional Classification Model

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Differs from each other in degree

i.e. variety of heights within spectrum of height

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Cormorbidity

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Coexistence of two or more disorders at same time. High degree of cormorbidity in DSM-5

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Epidemiology

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Study of distribution of disorders in a population

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Prognosis

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Probable course of an illness

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Acute

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Short lasting with sudden onset

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Chronic

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Long-lasting and develop over time (most disorders)

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Episodic

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Recurrent phases separated by periods of normal functioning

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Prevalence

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Percentage of a population that exhibits that disorder at a specific instance in time

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Point Prevalence

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Anyone who has had the disorder at that current point in time

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Annual Prevalence

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Anyone who has had the disorder in the past year

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Lifetime Prevalence

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Anyone who has had the disorder in their lifetime

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Hetergeneity

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Possibility that two people diagnosed with same disorder may experience different symptoms

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Depression

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Marked by intense, recurrent episodes of sadness

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Symptoms of Unipolar Depression (Major Depressive Disorder)

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Spends a lot of time sleeping, very little interest in doing anything, very little appetite and chronic headaches and muscle sores, mind filled with negative thoughts, thoughts of suicide.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Marked by constant, severe anxiety throughout various, trivial situations.

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GAD symptoms

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dizziness, sleep problems, headaches, nausea, difficulty concentrating, irritable

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Schizophrenia

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Disorganized thoughts or behaviour. Often have a combo of different types of symptoms

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Positive Symptoms

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Behaviours that show an increased presentation. Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, motor behaviour

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Hallucinations

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perceptions of things that are not there. most commonly auditory hallucinations.

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Delusions

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Irrational belief

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Disorganized Thinking

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problems in organizing ideas

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Motor Behaviour

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Catatonic Stupor: reduction in movement

Catatonic Excitement: Frantic motor movement

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Negative Symptoms

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Behaviours that show decreased presentation

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Affect

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emotional responsiveness

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Flat Affect

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very little emotional response

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Inappropriate affect

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inappropriate response to a situation

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Etiology

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cause or set of causes of a disorder

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Biological Model

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Assumes psychological disorder is due to biological malfunction in brain. Identical twins more likely to share a trait then its likely due to a genetic component

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Biological Model Causes

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Genetics may predispose individual for psychological disorders.

Abnormal neurotransmitter activity levels and brain structures may be linked to psychological disorders

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Environmental Model

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Accounts for environmental factors that could affect mental health including where we eat, where we live, and who we socialize with.

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Behavioural Model

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Considers how environment affects behaviours. Environment not the issue but our response to them. Contingencies, rewards, and punishments influence our behaviours

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Learned Helplessness

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Theory assumes depressive symptoms arise from feeling of helplessness that individuals would eventually learn to withhold responding

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Cognitive Model

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Mental disorders develop from maladaptive or negative interpretations of life around us

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