Psychopathology/ Psychological Disorders Flashcards
A constellation of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral symptoms that create significant distress or impairment in work, school, family, relationships, or daily living.
Psychological disorders
Most commonly accepted model used to explain the causes of psychological disorders. Focuses on genetic, personal, and group influences.
BioPsychoSocial model
Proposes that it is the combination of biological vulnerability coupled with specific environmental stressors which together cause psychological disorders.
Person A: Depression in genetics becomes depressed due to stressors
Person B: Doesn’t have depression in genetics and overcomes stressors after sadness
Ex: Gene like prozac video
Diathesis-stress model
Normalcy is ambiguous and often rooted in value judgements particular to a certain culture or society.
Who defines what is “normal?”: Culture
The exhibition of certain behaviors is outlawed in some jurisdictions.
Who defines what is “normal?”: Law
Psychiatric professionals influence what is considered normal and abnormal.
Who defines what is “normal?”: Science
The reference used by mental health clinicians to help diagnose and treat patients by defining mental disorders through signs, symptoms, and the functional impairments they may cause.
Current edition didn’t have as many disorders listed as the first edition due to lack of research funding. 1952
Diagnostic and statistical manual (DSMV)
The stigma attached to being diagnosed as mentally ill.
Labeling
Authorizes a person to be taken to a receiving mental health facility for involuntary examination if the following criteria are met:
Person is unable to exercise conscious control over their actions, is unable to understand reality, or is unable to meet the ordinary demands of living.
Person has refused voluntary examination.
Without care, person is likely to cause serious bodily harm to self or others.
Baker Act
How can one initiate the baker act?
Any one of three ways:
Circuit court order based upon sworn testimony by family or friends.
Law enforcement officer on “the beat” (most common)
Physician, clinical psychologist, psychiatric nurse or clinical social worker verifies the need.
Begins in childhood with three core symptoms: Inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
Attention- Deficit/ Hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Difficulty in sustaining attention, does not listen when spoken to, difficulty organizing tasks and activities.
Inattention
Fidgets, unable to keep seated, talks excessively.
Hyperactivity
Interrupts or intrudes on others, can’t wait turn, blurts out in class.
Impulsivity
Pursues thinness regardless or health consequences. Distortions in how body is viewed, fear of becoming fat and cessation of menstrual cycle.
High in neuroticism and low in extraversion.
- Binge eating and purging type
- Restricting type
By eating less, you don’t bring in triptophane which calms them down. Serotonin levels don’t rise.
Anorexia Nervosa
