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Psychopathalogical Disorders Flashcards

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Medical model

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Conceptualization of psychological disorders and diseases that, like physic diseases, have biological causes

  • etiology
  • prognosis
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Comorbidity

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The co-occurrence of 2+ disorders in a single individual

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Multiaxial classification system

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I) clinic, schizo, mood, anxiety, sleep, eating
II) unchangeable; mental retardation; personality
III) mescal, cancer, obesity, epilepsy
IV) environment, stress divorce, poverty, homeless

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Diathesis stress model

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Person is predisposed to psychological problems but remains unexpressed until its triggered by

  • diathesis: predisposing (genetics, personality, stress response)
  • stress-triggering; stressful life event
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Intervention causation fallacy

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  • if treatment is effective, it must be the cause of the problem
  • result of searching for biological causes
  • cure doesn’t point to cause
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Danger of labels

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  • carry neg stereotypes
  • can lead to self fulfilling prophexy
  • rosenhan study
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Rosenhan study

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  • gets admitted to mental hospital bc they report heading voices
  • get diagnosed with schizo
  • symptoms go away but they leave with label of schizo in remission
  • hospital labels patients, label sticks
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Causes of mental disorders

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  • family, socioeconomic
  • cognitive behavior
  • biological
  • diathesis stress model
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Anxiety disorders

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Anxiety is predominantly fear

  • generalized anxiety disorder
  • phobic disorders
  • panic disorders
  • OCD
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Generalized anxiety disorder

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  • excessive Anxiety
  • chronic obsessive worry
  • for at least 6 months
  • need 3+ of the following symptoms: restless, easily fatigued, mind goes blank, irritable, muscle tension, sleep disturbance
  • more common in lower socioeconomic groups
  • more common in women
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Treatments for generalized anxiety disorder

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  • benzodiazepine: stimulates GABA

- reduce symptoms

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Phobic disorders

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  • marked persistent and excessive fear and avoidance of specific objects, activities or situations
  • specific phobia
  • social phobia
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Specific phobia

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  • irrational fear of a particular object

- animals, environments, situations, injury, illness/death

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Social phobia

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  • irrational fear of being publicly humiliated
  • public speaking, public urination being scrutinized,
  • higher rates in uneducated people
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Preparedness theory

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People are instinctively predisposed toward certain fears

  • humans and monkeys can be conditioned to have fear response
  • seligman
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Panic disorder

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  • combo of psychological and physiological factors that contribute to stark terror
  • fast heart, dizziness,
  • agoraphobia
  • ie video of sports writer
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Agoraphobia

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  • specific phobia
  • fear of venturing into public places
  • about 22% of people in US have 1 panic attack
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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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  • obsessions: intrusive thoughts
  • compulsions: ritualistic behaviors
  • interfere with functioning
    1. 3% will develop
  • less in Asian cultures
  • more common in women
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OCD video

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-excessive hand washing and watching child

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Causes of OCD

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  • dysfunction of caudate nucleus (part of the basal ganglia, which is involved in impulse suppression)
  • anxiety is produced by obsessive behavior
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Theory of how dysfunction in basal ganglia causes OCD

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  • impulses leak into consciousness

- prefrontal cortex is over active

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OCD and strep

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  • strep infection affects caste nucleus

- OCD develops

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PTSD

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-intense anxiety to avoid bad memories

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Video of sports writer

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  • anxiety disorder
  • panic with agoraphobia
  • caused by anxiety and starting to avoid things
  • teach coping skills
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Anxiety disorders

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  • focus on threatening events
  • interpret neutral stimuli in a stressful manner
  • inhibited temperaments related to anxiety
  • inc CNS activity
  • ie doc measures Emma’s growth: anxiety thinks cancer, non-anxiety thinks height
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Panic is biologically driven**

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-higher incidence of panic attacks after inhaling CO2 Than after hyperventilating

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Treatments for anxiety disorders

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  • specific phobias: cognitive-behavioral approaches + medication
  • systematic desensitization
  • virtual treatments to reduce fear response
  • CBT
  • SSRIs-social phobia
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Cognitive reconstructing

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  • therapeutic approach
  • client questions automatic beliefs, assumptions and predictions that lead to negative thinking
  • realistic and positive beliefs
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Mindfulness meditation

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  • teaches being present in each moment
  • be aware of thoughts and feelings and sensations
  • detect symptoms
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Cognitive theory

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  • cognitive restructuring

- mindfulness meditation

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Cognitive behavioral therapy

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  • blend of cognitive and behavioral therapeutic strategies

- best for anxiety disporsrrs

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