psychopathology Flashcards
A person is abnormal if there behavior doesn’t follow social norms
Deviation from social norms
Deviation from Ideal mental health
A person is abnormal if they fail to display characteristics of ideal mental health
Jahodas six criteria
Positive self-attitudes, autonomy, self actualization, resistance to stress, accurate perception of reality, environmental mastery
Failure to function adequately
Abnormal if they are unable to cope with everyday life
Statistical infrequency
Abnormal if they display behavior that is statistically infrequent
strengths of the deviation from social norms definition of abnormality
limits harm
Weaknesses of the deviation from social norms definition of abnormality
social norms change over time
Strength of the ideal mental health definition
Enables patients to set ideal goals
weakness of the ideal mental health definition
Jahodas criteria is had to measure objectively
Strength to the failure to function adequetley definition
is objective
weakness of the failure to function adequetley definition
people with mental disorders dont always struggle with coping
weakness of the statistical infrequency
some statistical infrequency is good
strength of the statistical infrequency
Objective
some symptoms of depression
low mood, loss of pleasure, irrational negative beliefs, Difficulty concentrating
Ellis’s ABC stands for
Activating event
belief
consequences
Becks negative triad categories beliefs into
Negative beliefs of the world, self and the future
What causes becks negative views
Negative self schema
negative Cognitive bias
fixate on negative information
Koster investigated
measured attention ability of people with major depression, participants sat in front of a computer, and a positive negative or neutral word would flash up, and a square would appear somewhere on the screen, they had to press a button as fast as they could,
Koster results
after being presented with a negative word participants, participants took longer to react to the square
Alloy and Abramson
asked participants how much control they had over a flashing light, participants estimated more accurately then the control group
McGuffin et. al
Concordance rates for depression were 46% in mono zygotic twins, and in Dz it was 20%
Cognitive behavioral therapy
aims to remove the negative beliefs that cause depression
CBT 4 steps
identify negative beliefs, challenge negative beliefs, test hypothesis and evaluate
