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Behavioural Symptoms of Phobias

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Panic behaviours
Avoidance

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Emotional Symptoms of Phobias

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Anxiety
Fear

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Cognitive Symptoms of Phobias

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Selective attention
Irrational beliefs
Resistance to arguments

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Behavioural Symptoms of Depression

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Disrupted activity lessons
More/less sleep
More/less appetite
Agression or self harm

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Emotional Symptoms of Depression

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Negative emotion
Loss of pleasure
Anger

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Cognitive Symptoms of Depression

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Poor concentration
Dwelling on negatives
Absolutist thinking

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Behavioural Symptoms of OCD

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Complulsions
Avoidance

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Emotional Symptoms of OCD

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Anxiety
Depression
Embarassment

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Cognitive Symptoms of OCD

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Obsessions
Intrusive thoughts

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Development of Phobias

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  • Only explains behaviour
  • Car accidents (80% no phobia)
  • Trauma (2% water phobia had trauma)
  • RWA (treatments)
    *Little Albert
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Treatment of Phobias

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  • Ethics (flooding)
  • Cost effective
  • Effective (at 3 and 33 months, all phobias)
  • Appropriateness (case study)
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Development of OCD

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  • Alternative (conditioning)
  • Concordance (not 100%)
  • Animal studies (dopamine)
  • Brain research (damage and elevated activity)
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Treatment of OCD

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  • Effective (30% not effective)
  • More effective with CBT
  • Side effects (indigestion, blurred vision, sex drive)
  • Cost effective (not long term)
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Development of Depression

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  • RWA (treatments)
  • Endogenous depression not explained (just reactive)
  • Negative thought = post natal depression
  • teenagers, negative thinking = depression
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Treatments of Depression

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  • Effectiveness (81% CBT, 86% combined)
  • Long term (31% relapse only)
  • Appropriateness (maybe not)
  • Cost effective
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Deviation from Social Norms

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Non-adherence too the standards of behaviour and attitudes of a society

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Deviation from Social Norms

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  • Cultures vary
  • Justifies negative treatment of “undesireables”
  • Not all behaviours that go against social norms are bad
  • Normal changes over time
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Statistical Infrequency

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Rare behaviour

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Statistical Infrequency

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  • Frequency =/= desireability
  • Issues with defining a cut off point
  • Depression is relatively common, but still bad
  • Objective
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Failure to Function Adequately

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Inability to cope with the day to day demands of normal life
* Dysfunctional behaviour
* Observer discomfort
* Unpredictable behaviour
* Irrational behaviour
* Personal Distress

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Failure to Function Adequately

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  • Doesn’t apply to everyone abnormal (psychopaths)
  • Can identify those who need the most help
  • Most people have caused distress to themselves or others at some point
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Ideal Mental Health

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  1. Positive self-attitude
  2. Self-actualisation
  3. Resistance to stress
  4. Personal autonomy
  5. Accurate persepection of reality
  6. Adaptation to the environment

Jahoda

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Deviation from Ideal Mental Health

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  • Difficult to meet all of the crieria
  • A psychopath may meet all of the criteria
  • Culturally biased
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Phobias

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Anxiety disorder characterised by excessive fear and anxiety, out of proportion to the threat posed by the phobic stimulus
* Specific phobia
* Social phobia
* Agoraphobia

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Depression

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Mood disorder characterised by a persistent low mood.
* Reactive
* Endogenous

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OCD

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Obsessions: intrusive and persistent thoughts, images and impulses which are unwanted and cause distress
Compulsions: physical or mental repetitive activities that relate to an obsession. Have to last an hour a day to be diagnosable

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Development of Phobias

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Stimulus response
Classical and operant conditioning
* neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus
* produces a conditioned response

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Flooding

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  • exposed to phobic stimulus and can’t escape
  • anxiety and fear will stop
  • unlearns association
  • Extinction
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Systematic Desensitisation

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  1. create an anxiety heirarchy
  2. learn to relax
  3. exposure

Gradual
Counterconditioning

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Genetic Approach to OCD

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SERT gene
* affects serotonin levels
* people with OCD more likely to have this mutation

COMT gene
* production of COMT which regulates dopamine

Polygenic
Supported by concordance rates and twin studies

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Neural Approach to OCD

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  • Abnormal levels of serotonin and dopamine cause malfunction of the caudate nucleas.
  • Caudate nuclease does not supress messages from OFC
  • Causes compulsions due to obsessions
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Treatment for OCD

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SSRIs
* prevent reuptake of serotonin into the synapse
* increases amount of serotonin available in the synapse
* reduces symptoms caused by low levels of serotonin

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Cognitive Approach to Depression

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Faulty information processing
* Focus on the negative

Negative self schema
* develops from early experiences

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Beck

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Negative Triad
Depression is caused by negative thoughts about:
* themself
* the future
* the world

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Ellis

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ABC Model
A. activating event
B. belief
C. consequence

Irational beliefs lead to maladaptive consequences

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Treatments for Depression

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CBT
* identify and challenge negative/irrational thoughts
* change behaviours that result from these
* challenge thoughts through questioning
* reality testing

REBT
* ABCDE
* Disputing
* Effect of disputing

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