Psychopathology Flashcards
Define it,history of mental illness,understanding psychopathology,perspectives and integrated approaches
Criterias that separate disorders from normal behaviour
Statistical deviance
Maladaptiveness
Personal distress
What is statical deviance?
A criterion of abnormal behaviour based on an infrequency of occurrence in members of a population (talking to your self happens infrequently)
A criterion of abnormality stating that a behaviour is abnormal of it occurs infrequently among the members of a population
What is a bell curve?
Most common type of distribution for a variable and known as normal distribution
What does the highest point on the curve represents?
Most probable event in a series of data while all other possible occurrence are equally distributed around the most probable event
What is Maladaptiveness?
It us a way you think about the problem,rather than the problem itself that causes mental disorders
The individual is an active processor of information
Common signs of psychopathology?
Suicide
Depression
Fatigue
Maladaptiveness is relative to?
The particular culture perspective
Words Defining psychopathology ?
Statical behaviours
Maladaptiveness
personal distress
What is personal distress?
Is associated with what consitutes a mental disorder
People suffer from struggle with unbearable negative thought about themselves and their world
How are APD individuals?
Likely to find pleasure in inflicting pain in others and they are often violent and abusive in their relationship with others
What year was homosexuality declared not an illness?
Since 1973
5 eras of mental illness
The ancient Era The early Era The Reinaissance The asylum The scientific Era
Who said problems with madness and insanity have always been part of the human condition
Porter(2002)
In early Era what did they think about Mental illness?
It was believed that individuals who became psychologically disturbed were possessed by evil,supernatural forces
What did hippocrates believed about pyschological disorders?
He believed that pyschological disorders were the results of imbalances in 4 essential fluids or homours in the body:Blood,phlegm,yellow bile and black bile
How was the mental illness looked at Ancient Era?
Mental illness was seen as a punishment for sins committed,or as a form of demonic possession
The church was the only solution to it
When did the Renaissance era happened?
1400-1600
In Reinaissance Era what did they believed about Mental illness
People said it was witchcraft
Physicians said it was medical illness and people could not be held responsible for their actions
What were the treatment of mental ill patients in asylum era?
Restraining patients for long period of time
Placing them in dark cells
And subjecting them to torture-like treatments
Who out the forward the idea that mental patients needed to be treated with kindness and consideration if they were to recover?
Phillipe pinel(1745-1826)
2 People in England established a country retreat where patients could rest peacefully?
William
Henry Tuke
What era were mental ill people started to be treated with kindness ?
The Asylum Era
Which era have sciencific discoveries?
The scientific era
Who observed that certain symptoms occurred with specific types of mental disease?
Emil Kraepelin
