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What is the DSM?

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The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

Used to classify disorders to aid with diagnosis - descriptive.

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What are the definitions of abnormality?

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Deviation from social norms, statistical infrequency, failure to function adequately, deviation from ideal mental health.

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What is deviation from social norms?

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Labels people as social deviants but allows it to function smoothly.

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What are evaluative points about deviation from social norms?

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  • Vary across cultures, situations, ages. genders
  • Subjective
  • Situationally specific
  • How change occurs - rights of women eg. voting
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What is statistical infrequency?

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Statistically rare behaviour that does not occur often. A normal distribution curve is drawn.

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What are evaluative points about statistical infrequency?

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  • Real life application
  • Not take into account desirability of behaviour
  • Objective but no clear cut off point
  • Unbiased - real data used
  • Cross-cultural comparison but differences present
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What is failure to function adequately?

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Cannot cope with everyday life. Focuses on individual suffering as when behaviour is abnormal it causes distress - behaves in maladaptive way.

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What are evaluative points about failure to function adequately?

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  • Observable
  • Subjective
  • Depends on society norms
  • Observer discomfort
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What is deviation from ideal mental health?

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Jahoda’s 6 characteristics:
positive self attitude
self actualisation
adaptation to the environment
accurate perception of reality
personal autonomy
stress resistance

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What are evaluative points about deviation from ideal mental health?

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  • Comprehensive
  • Positive approach on what is desirable
  • Over demanding criteria
  • Subjective
  • Cultural deviation
  • High standards may be met by eg. serial killer.
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What are the 2 types of depression?

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Unipolar/major - cyclical clinical symptoms
Bipolar/manic - less common, also has cycles of high energy, irritable, irrational thoughts

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What are symptoms of depression?

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Behavioural: energy loss, weight changes, insomnia
Emotional: anhedonia (loss of pleasure in normal activities)
Cognitive: less concentration, poor memory

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Is depression is mood or anxiety disorder?

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Mood

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Is OCD is mood or anxiety disorder?

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Anxiety

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Are phobias mood or anxiety disorders?

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Anxiety

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What are the components of OCD?

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Obsessions: persistent thought repeatedly, leading to anxiety
Compulsions: repetitive behaviour driven to perform to decrease anxiety.

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What are symptoms of OCD?

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Behavioural: affect everyday tasks, repetitive, socially
Emotional: high anxiety, distress, depression, guilt
Cognitive: obsessive thoughts with rituals, uncontrollable urges

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What are different types of OCD?

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Contamination, checking, symmetry, hoarding.

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How long do symptoms last for OCD to be diagnosed?

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1 hour a day and affect everyday life.

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How long do symptoms last for phobias to be diagnosed?

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6+ months, significant prolonged fear.

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What is a phobia?

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An extreme, irrational fear of an object or situation.

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What are the symptoms of phobias?

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Behavioural: anxiety, avoidance, changing behaviour
Emotional: excessive fear, anxiety
Cognitive: irrational beliefs about stimulus, affects concentration

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What are sub types of phobias?

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Specific (animal, natural environment, blood, situational, other)
Social
Agoraphobia

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What is the cognitive approach to treating depression?

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Behaviours controlled by thoughts and beliefs - faulty cognitions cause depression. Maladaptive cognitions.

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What is Beck’s negative triad?

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Automatic thoughts are linked to depression - negative schema dominate thinking. About themselves, the world and the future.

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What is Ellis’ ABC model?

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A = activating event
B = belief
C = consequence
Blame events for unhappiness.

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What are evaluation points for treating depression?

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  • Role of thoughts and beliefs
  • cognitive therapies are successful
  • consequence of depression, not cause
  • feels like they are to blame for their issues
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What is CBT?

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It identifies and changes faulty cognition - notice negative thoughts and tests accuracy. Reframing.

Works best with antidepressants but decreases chance of relapse.

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What is the behavioural approach to phobias?

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Phobias are learnt by association.
CC - phobia created when natural fear is associated with the stimulus.
OC - maintaining phobias with negative reinforcement.

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What is Mowrer’s 2 process model?

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  1. Onset of phobia by CC
  2. Maintain phobia by OC
    Phobias are resistant to extinction because constant reinforcing avoidance responses made. (maladaptive)
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What is systematic desensitisation?

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Based on CC - replace fear with calm as it is impossible to feel both at once. Relaxation techniques and progress though a hierarchy of fears.

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What is flooding?

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Immediate full exposure - anxiety peaks but cannot be maintained.

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What are evaluation points for treatments of phobias?

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  • good for specific phobias
  • works very fast
  • ethical issues
  • only treats symptoms
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What is the biological approach to OCD?

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There are physical causes:
Genetics - inherited with twin studies. Hard to separate environment and genetics. Combo of genes cause OCD and there is not 100% concordance.
Neural - PET scans show low serotonin and SSRIs can aid symptoms. High activity in frontal cortex or abnormality in basal ganglia.

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What are biological treatments for OCD?

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Antidepressants increase serotonin and antipsychotics are also useful.
Psychosurgery disrupts a circuit using radio waves to block out irrelevant thoughts/obsessions.

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How can CBT be used for OCD?

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It focuses on changing obsessive thinking, as intrusive thoughts are shown to be normal. Assess chance of risks occurring.
Works best with drugs.

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What are evaluation points for treatments of OCD?

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  • SSRIs help
  • some have no improvement
  • side effects of drugs
  • some not have skills for CBT
  • drugs are lengthy compared to CBT

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