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Definitions of abnormality

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Statistical Infrequency
Deviation from social norms
Failure to function adequately
Deviation from ideal mental health

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Statistical infrequency evaluation

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fails to distinguish between desirable & undesirable behaviours

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Deviation from social norms evaluation

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Fails to consider the importance of context

Social norms can change with time

Complicated by cultural differences

Social deviancy isn’t necessarily a bad thing

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Failure to function adequately - SMUVICOD

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Suffering
Maladaptiveness
Unpredictable + loss of control
Vividness
Irrational
Causes Observer Discomfort

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Failure to function adequately evaluation

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Behaviour which appears dysfunctional may actuallly be functional for that person

Many people engage in maladaptive behaviour which is considered normal

Sometimes it is normal to struggle

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Deviation from ideal mental health evaluation

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Criteria too ideal

Assumes physical and mental disorders are the same

Uses perceptions of what is desirable rather than what is not

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Phobias - emotional symptoms

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anxiety

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Phobias - cognitive symptoms

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selective attention to phobic stimmulus
Hard to divert attention

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Phobias - Behavioural symptoms

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B - Panic, avoidance, endurance

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Depression - Emotional symptoms

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low mood
anger
low self-esteem

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Depression - Cognitive symptoms

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Poor concentration

Dwelling on the negative

Absolutust thinking

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Depression - Behavioural symptoms

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Activity levels

Abnormal Sleep + eating behaviour

Aggression + self harm

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OCD emotional symptoms

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Anxiety

Depression

Guilt + disgust

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OCD cognitive symptoms

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Obsessive thoughts

Coping mechanism

Insight into execessive anxiety

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OCD behavioural symptoms

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Compulsions, avoidance

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Assumptions of the behaviourist approach

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‘tabula rasa’ - blank slate
observable behaviour
animal studies
lab experients

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How are phobias explained?

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learnt through classical conditioning
Maintained through operant conditioning

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Phobias - little Albert

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9 month old Albert
present rat with loud bang
Albert developed fear of rats

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Little Albert - evaluation

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Application - exposure therapy
No cognitive aspects
Link between trauma and phobias - weak

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Systematic desensitisation

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reduces phobia through classical conditioning

Anxiety hierarchy

Relies on a clients ability to image a situation

21
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Flooding

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Immediate exposure to phobic stimulus

Client achieves relaxation due to exhaustion from response

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Cognitive Approach Assumptions

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Mediational processes
Models
Inference
Schema
Mental processes can be studied scientifically

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Machine reductionism evaluation

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Overly simplistic
Ignores emotion
Allows us to scientifically study

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Musturbatory thinking

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Source of irrational beliefs
Absolutist thinking

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Ellis’ ABC

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Activating event
Belief - irrational
Consequence emotion

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Beck’s 123

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  1. Negative Self Schema
  2. Faulty Information Processing
  3. The cognitive triad
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The cognitive Triad

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Thought, Emotion, Behaviour

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CBT

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  1. Behavioural action
  2. Thought catching
  3. Client as scientist
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length of CBT

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20 sessions over 16 weeks

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REBT

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Empirical argument - evidence
Logical argument - thought -> fact
Pragmatic display - Usefulness of self-debilitating belief

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2 genes involved in OCD

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SERT
COMT

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Role of orbito-frontal cortex in OCD

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Irrational thought

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Thalamus - OCD

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detects threat

34
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basil ganglia - OCD

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movement

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caudate nucleus - OCD

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suppresses unwanted thought

36
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How do SSRIs work?

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block serotonin reuptake in the synapse

37
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Brain Injury to which area may cause someone to develop OCD symptoms?

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Basil Ganglia

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