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1
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are children or adults more likely to have psychopathology

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children

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hauora - te whare tapa wha

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a maori lens of health
4 walls
1. mental, emotional wellbeing, cognitive and behaviour
2. physical wellbeing, overall physical health
3. spiritual wellbeing , values
4. social wellbeing, family, relationships, comms

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are treatments of psychopathology always effective

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only in some settings

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% of people in NZ that meet the media for a mental disorder and those that was in the last 6 months

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40%
60%

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Te Rau Hinengaro: The NZ mental health survey

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aim - understand the prevalence of mental health disorders, barriers of its healthcare use and in it many cultures

findings - around 13000 people 16+ were interviewed, maori+pacific people were over-sampled, and the three most common disorders were
- anxiety
- mood
- substance use
maori and pacific are less likely to have access to treatment services

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what is psychopathology

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refers to the study of psychological disorders

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what are the fives things that help define disorders

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  • infrequency
  • deviance
  • distress
  • disability
  • danger
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infrequency

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how often it occurs

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deviance

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behaviours that are not considered typical
- these often differ between cultures

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distress

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  • the suffering experience
  • it can be experienced by self and others
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disability

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the degrees of the impairment experienced

  • this differs by individual
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danger

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degree of risk
- to self
- to others
- from others
- to property

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how do we classify disorders and what it gives us

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book called DSM-5-TR that is regularly updates

gives us -
a common language
support evidence

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Anxiety

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  • one of the most common disorders
  • future focused and is an anticipated threat

not infrequent
but associates with distress, disability, danger

  • thoughts, worries, avoidance
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Fear or Panic

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  • present focused
  • immediate threat
  • autonomic
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Te Rau Hinengaro

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25-29% of adults will meet the criteria for one disorder at some point in their life

17
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who can receive therapy

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  • individuals
  • couples
  • family
  • groups
  • communities

Give people, skills and knowledge, so that they no longer need help as they know what skills they need to undergo

18
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biomedical vs psychological approach

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Psychologists vs therapists

disease vs thought and behaviour

changing physical functioning vs changing how we things, feel and our behaviours

medication and surgery vs therapy

19
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psychodynamic approach

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no the most common anymore, but parts of it are

aim: for clients to achieve insight and how these affect their process, strong focus on the past

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behavioural approach

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clients to identify the behaviours that the cause of their disorder

  • a focus on reinforcement rather than a punishment
  • exposure therapy
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cognitive approach

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idea that clients and address maladaptive thoughts, beliefs and assumptions made (negative beliefs about ourselves)

eg. do people really hate you or not really

22
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third way cognitive therapy

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mindfulness (having a thought then letting it go)

23
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which treatment is the best

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combined treatment

24
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which is common treatment for anxiety and depression

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CBT

25
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personality disorders

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persistent set of behaviours across multiple setting

  • sort of a view you have through life in every setting eg. you may see the world as scary in every settings

early experiences change the way you think about the world, which makes this stable over time

develops in childhood from experiences so its not actually there fault

  • difficult in social interactions
  • intense or reduced reactions
  • inflexible thinking patterns
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three clusters of personality disorders

cluster A B C

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A - odd or eccentric
B - Dramatic
C - Anxious

27
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is you have a disorder you have a ___% chance of having another one

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50%

28
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there are around 10 criteria per disorder but

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you only need to have a few to have the disorder, so different people act different with the personaility

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causes of personality disorders

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  • little genetics
  • childhood experiences
  • individual temperament (right up bringing for that child)
30
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treatment

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if on the boarder
otherwise no but have evidence based protocols (eg therapy)

31
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difficulties or treating personality disorders

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  • takes longer
  • therapy is difficult
  • poor research base
  • high levels of stigma
32
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psychosis

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  • focus on your perception of reality
  • difficulties in distinguishing what is real and what is not
  • high levels of distress
  • mainly is young adults as this is when most do experience with drugs
  • relatively common
  • can be caused by psych disorders, major stress, drug use
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schizophrenia

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you need 2 or more of
- delusions
- hallucinations
- disorganised speech
- catatonia (won’t interact, they just sit there
- negative symtoms

34
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causes of schizophrenia

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  • brain disorders
  • brith month
  • pregnancy or birth complications
35
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schizophrenia treatment

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  • anti-psychotic
  • CBT
36
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clusters of symptoms

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postive/negative/disorganised symptoms

37
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psychosis care in NZ

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early interventions teams
- wrap around (work as a team)
- 3 years of care

barriers

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