Psychopathology

Question 1

Psychodynamic therapy

Answer 1

Helps understand past events, uncover unresolved feelings

Question 2

5 features of a disorder

Answer 2

Infrequency, deviance, distress, disability, danger

Question 3

Humanistic therapy

Answer 3

Helps seek fulfilment and reach potential

Question 4

Behavioural therapy

Answer 4

Helps modify non-productive behaviours

Question 5

Cognitive therapy

Answer 5

Helps people change unhelpful thinking patterns

Question 6

Eclectic Therapy

Answer 6

Changes to meet the individual needs of the patient

Question 7

Yerkes-Dodson law

Answer 7

There is an optimal level of anxiety to improve performance

Question 8

Agoraphobia

Answer 8

Fear of places where it is not easy to escape

Question 9

Positive symptom

Answer 9

Something that is easy to detect
Hallucinations

Question 10

Negative symptom

Answer 10

Something hard to detect
Lack of motivation

Question 11

Delusions

Answer 11

• Persecution: people are conspiring against them
• Grandeur: they are a higher deity, or have special abilities
• Reference: something or someone is having a conversation with
  them
• Erotomania: belief that someone is in love with you despite the contrary
• Somatic: something is wrong with them health-wise.
• Nihilistic: the end of the world is imminent or that nothing
  really exists or is real.
• Bizarre vs Non-bizarre: something that is plausible vs something that is not plausible

Question 12

Schizopheniform disorder

Answer 12

Relatively short duration of symptoms, good prognosis

Question 13

Schizoaffective Disorder

Answer 13

Independent symptoms of SZ and mood disorder. Prognosis similar to SZ.

Question 14

Delusional Disorder

Answer 14

Delusions for 1month or longer. Few or no negative symptoms, less observable
impairment, rare, better prognosis, subtypes.

Question 15

Bipolar I Disorder

Answer 15

Manic episode and depressive episode
Can be treated by lithium

Question 16

Bipolar II Disorder

Answer 16

Hypomanic episode and depressive episode

Question 17

What characterises general anxiety disorder

Answer 17

Persistent anxiety not tied to a specific event

Question 18

Panic Disorder

Answer 18

Sudden, intense periods of fear without a clear trigger

Question 19

Cluster A disorders

Answer 19

Odd or eccentric
Paranoid, Schizoid

Question 20

Cluster B disorders

Answer 20

Dramatic, emotional
Antisocial, BPD

Question 21

Cluster C disorders

Answer 21

Anxious, Fearful
OCD, Avoidant, Dependant

Question 22

Major Depressive Disorder

Answer 22

Anhedonia

Question 23

DSM-5 model

Answer 23

Professionals prefer the alternative model