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Statistical Infrequency

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rare

statistically unusual

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an example of statistical infrequency

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someone having a above/below average IQ

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a criticism of statistical infrequency

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fails to recognise the desirability of the particular behaviour

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what does statistical infrequency imply

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that the abnormal behaviour should be rare or statistically unusual

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what us not unusual for people to do at some point in their lives…

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to show abnormal behaviour

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this definition can provide an objective way, based on data, to define abnormality if…

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an agreed cut-off point can be identified

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limitation - difference

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doesn’t give you a difference in between desirable and abnormal behaviour

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what percentage of old people have depression

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27%

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Deviation from Social Norms

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behaviour is classified as abnormal if it doesn’t fit in with society

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what might their behaviour make others feel

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feel threatened or uncomfortable

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social behaviour varies markedly when

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different cultures are compared

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what do people in southern Europe do which people don’t do in the UK

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stand much closer while talking

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what are common things that vary by culture

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voice pitch
volume
touching
direction of gaze
acceptable subjects
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Deviation from Social Norms strength

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This definition gives a definition to abnormality,

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Deviation from Social Norms limitation - culture

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Social norms can vary from culture to culture.

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Deviation from Social Norms limitation - time

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norms can vary over time.

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Failure to Function Adequately

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abnormality that prevent the person from carrying out the range of behaviours that society would expect from them

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what would an example of an Failure to Function Adequately abnormality be

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getting out of bed
having a job
relationships

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what did Rosenhan & Seligman suggest

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seven criteria that are typical of FFA

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who made the seven criteria that are typical of FFA

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Rosenhan & Seligman

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suffering

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most abnormal individuals report that they are suffering

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maladaptiveness

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behaviour which prevents people from achieving major life goals

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vivid/unconventional behaviour

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abnormal individuals tend to behave often differs substantially from most people

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unpredictability/loss of control

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behaviour of abnormal people is often very variable and uncontrolled and inappropriate

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irrationality/ incomprehensibility

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others cannot understand why anyone would choose to behave in this way

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observer discomfort

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observers to the behaviour are made uncomfortable by it

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violation of moral/ideal standards

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behaviour may be judged ‘abnormal’ when it violates established moral standards-

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The more features of personal dysfunction a person has…

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the more they are considered abnormal.

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what is used to rate peoples social, occupational and psychological functioning

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the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF)

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strength for FFA

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a practical checklist of seven criteria individuals can use to check their level of abnormality

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limitation for FFA

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FFA might not be linked to abnormality but to other factors

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another reason my somebody might not be able to keep a job

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economic situation

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Deviation from Ideal Mental Health

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missing one of Jahoda’s criteria

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Resistance to stress

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being able to cope with everyday anxiety provoking situations.

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Growth and development

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Experiencing personal growth and becoming everything one is capable of becoming.

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High self-esteem

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Having self-respect and a positive self-concept.

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Autonomy

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Being independent, self-reliant and being able to make personal decisions.

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Accurate perception of reality

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Having an objective and realistic view of the world

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limitations for Deviation from Ideal Mental Health - criteria

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Difficulty of meeting all criteria, very few people would be able to do so

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limitations for Deviation from Ideal Mental Health - culture

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these are western ideas so shouldn’t be used on people from another culture

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what does OCD stand for

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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what kind of disorder is OCD

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an anxiety disorder

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the obsession part of OCD

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intrusive and uncontrollable thoughts

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the compulsive part of OCD

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a need to perform specific acts repeatedly

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common obsessions for people with OCD

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fear of contamination
repetitive thoughts of violence
sexual obsessions
obsessive doubt

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what are compulsions

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the behavioural responses intended to neutralize obsessions.

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what are the most common compulsions

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cleaning, 
washing, 
checking, 
counting,
touching
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to someone with OCD, how important are their compulsions

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very important. If they are not performed exactly “something bad” will happen.

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what will happen if someone with OCD doesn’t do their compulsion

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they get extreme anxiety

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what are the most common rituals in women

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cleaning/washing

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what are the most common rituals in men

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checking rituals

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what will happen at some point when someone has OCD

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they realise the obsessions or compulsions are excessive or unreasonable.

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what do obsessive thoughts lead to

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anxiety, worry and distress.

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what are people like if they have OCD

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repetitive behavioural responses intended to neutralize these obsessions

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Cognitive

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what do you think

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emotional

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how do you feel

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behavioural

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how do you behave

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Biological approach to OCD limitation - environment

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it ignores environmental factors that can cause OCD

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Biological approach to OCD strength - testability

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you can use neuroscience to prove hypothesises such as the dopamine hypothesis

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what is the dopamine hypothesis

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argues that elevated levels of dopamine are related to symptoms of schizophrenia.

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Biological approach to OCD limitation - factors

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they focus on only one factor and at present our understanding of biochemistry is oversimplified.

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why are the biological explanations deterministic

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they ignore the individual’s ability to control their own behaviour

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what are genetics

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Genetics is the study of genes and inheritance

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What kind of condition is OCD in the Genetic explanation

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polygenic condition

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what is a polygenic condition

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where a number of genes are involved in OCD’s development

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what do family and twin studies suggest

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suggest the involvement of genetic factors in the development of OCD

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OCD baseline in the random population

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2%/3%

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what gene is mutated in OCD patients

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The SERT gene (Serotonin Transporter) and COMT gene

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what happens if the SERT gene is mutated

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an increase in transporter proteins at a neuron’s membrane

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what happens if an increase in transporter proteins go to an neuron’s membrane

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an increase in the intake of serotonin into the neuron which decreases the level of serotonin in the synapse.

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what does the COMT gene do

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regulates the function of dopamine

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why are the COMT and SERT gene different

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they do opposite things

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what does the mutated COMT gene do

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causes a decrease in the COMT activity and therefore a higher level of dopamine.

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Carey and Gottesman 1981 experiment

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tested obsessive symptoms in identical and fraternal twins

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obsessive symptoms in identical twins

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87%

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obsessive symptoms in fraternal twins

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47%

77
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what does the Carey and Gottesman 1981 experiment suggest

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that genetic factors are moderately important

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why might the higher concordance rate found for identical twins important

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because it may be down to nurture, identical twins are likely to have a similar environment than fraternal twins

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why are identical twins are likely to experience a more similar environment than fraternal twins

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they tend to be treated the same

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Genes alone do not determine who will develop OCD…

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they only create vulnerability

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is OCD transmitted genetically or culturally

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culturally as the family members may observe and imitate each other’s behaviour

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how does social learning theory come into OCD

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because a large cultural factor comes into it and we learn it from our family members

83
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what part of the brain is involved in decision making and our behaviour

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the prefrontal cortex

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what could cause OCD in Neural Explanations

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Abnormalities, or an imbalance in serotonin

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what does Serotonin do

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the chemical thought to be involved in regulating mood

86
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what chemical is high in people that have OCD

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Dopamine

87
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what has high levels of Dopamine thought to influence

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concentration

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what did Salloway & Duffy discover in 2002

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Brain scans of OCD patients reliably show increased activity in the Prefrontal cortex

89
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what two drugs have proved effective in treating OCD

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serotonin reuptake inhibitors

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

90
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what does SRI and SSRI do

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increase serotonin levels

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what happened when animals were injected with dopamine

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they showed OCD behaviour

92
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what did Soomro et al find

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SSRIs were significantly better than placebos in reducing symptoms

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how many clinical trials did Soomro et al do

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17

94
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what’s the issue with serotonin

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sometimes symptoms can be made worse

95
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SSRI side effects

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dry mouth
a slight tremor
fast heartbeat
constipation
sleepiness 
weight gain
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what is depression

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Depression is a mood, or affective disorder

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what is depression a collection of

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physical, emotional, mental and behavioural experiences that damage everyday functioning

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what is the criteria for depression

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DSM-IV-TR

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to have depression, what must you have

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5 or more DSM-IV-TR symptoms

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what are some of the DSM-IV-TR symptoms

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Behavioural
Emotional
Cognitive

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Behavioural - depression

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Neglect of personal appearance, 
loss of appetite, 
insomnia, 
tiredness, 
withdrawal from others.
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Emotional - depression

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Intense sadness, 
irritability, 
apathy, 
feelings of worthlessness,
anger.
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Cognitive - depression

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Negative thoughts, 
lack of concentration, 
low self-esteem, 
poor memory, 
recurrent thoughts of death,
low confidence.
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what does the cognitive approach believe causes depression

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depression stems from faulty cognitions about others, our world and us

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Ellis

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depression occurs through irrational thinking

106
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Beck

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the cognitive triad.

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what is the cognitive triad.

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three forms of negative thinking that are typical of individuals with depression

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what are the three sides of becks cognitive triad

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The Self
The World
The Future

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how do people with depression view themselves

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helpless, worthless, and inadequate

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what does the cognitive triad interact with

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with negative schemas and cognitive biases to produce depressive thinking.

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what do people with depression do a lot

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make logical errors

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what do people with depression ignore

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the positive of something

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what does Beck believe people develop

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negative self schema

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when does Beck believe people develop negative self schema

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during childhood during/after a traumatic event

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what do schema influence

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how people interprets and experiences life

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what does beck believe

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these negative schema formed in childhood lay dormant can be activated by life events or stress

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what did Lewinsohn et al discover in 2001

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that negative thoughts are involved in the development of depression

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what was the Lewinsohn et al experiment

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they took teenagers and measured how much they had negative thoughts.
a year later, those who had had negative life events were showing to be more susceptible to getting depression

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what does the cognitive approach to depression ignore - genes

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the genetic factor

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what does the cognitive approach to depression ignore - social

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social factors relating to life events

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what did Albert Ellis do

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made the ABC model

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what did Albert Ellis propose

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we all hold a unique set of assumptions / beliefs about ourselves and our world

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in Ellis’s proposition, what do the assumptions/beliefs do

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guide us through life and determine our reactions

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what are basic irrational assumptions

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when peoples assumptions are irrational and lead them to act in ways that are inappropriate

125
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what is depressive realism

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when people who have depression have a more accurate view of the world

126
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Rimm & Litvak, 1969

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When experimental subjects are manipulated into having bad thoughts, they became more depressed

127
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what is CBT

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cognitive behavioural therapy

128
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what does CBT do

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aims to change the way a client thinks, by challenging irrational thought processes

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what will challenging irrational thought processes do

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change in behaviour

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what do Cognitive therapists do - help

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help clients to recognize the negative thoughts and errors in logic that cause them to be depressed

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what do cognitive therapists do - homework

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they give their clients homework so they can challenge their irrational beliefs

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when is CBT used

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when depression has affected their lives in a negative way

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a strength of CBT - treating

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shown to be very effective in treating depression

134
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what is better for people with depression - CBT or antidepressants

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CBT

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a strength of CBT - ethics

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it can reduce ethical issues – the way this therapy works is that the client is actively involved and in control so feel empowered

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Phobias are a type of what disorder

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anxiety

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what is a phobia

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a marked and persistent fear that is excessive or unreasonable

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examples of phobias

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flying,
heights,
seeing blood

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Behavioural - phobias

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The phobic stimulus is either avoided or responded to with great anxiety.

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emotional - phobias

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Exposure to the phobic stimulus nearly always produces a rapid anxiety response.

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cognitive - phobias

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The person is consciously aware that the anxiety levels they experience in relation to their feared object or situation are overstated.

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what are the three category’s for phobias

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agoraphobia, social phobia and specific phobias

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agoraphobia

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fear of open spaces/fear of being away from home.

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social phobia

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an intense fear of social situation or having to interact with other people

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specific phobias

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a fear of a specific object, such as a spider, or a situation, such as an enclosed space

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what kinds of conditioning are used in the two process model

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classical conditioning and operant conditioning

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who made the two process model

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Mowrer

148
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what causes a phobia

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a classically conditioned association between an anxiety provoking unconditioned stimulus and a previously neutral stimulus

149
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what does operant conditioning do

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help to explain how the phobia is maintained

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how does operant conditioning help to explain how the phobia is maintained

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The conditioned stimulus evokes fears, and avoidance of the feared situation lessens this feeling, which is rewarding. The reward strengths the avoidance behaviour, and the phobia is maintained.

151
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what support is there that classical conditioning leads to phobias

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Watson and Rayner (1920) used classical conditioning to create a phobia in an infant called Little Albert.

152
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what did Watson and Rayner do to Little Albert

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they made him fear white rats by associating them to a load noise

153
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what does the behaviourist approach overlook with it comes to phobias

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the role of cognition

154
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what is Systematic Desensitisation

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aims to remove the fear response of a phobia, and substitute a relaxation response to the conditional stimulus gradually using counter conditioning.

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  1. Systematic Desensitisation
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First, the patient is taught a deep muscle relaxation technique and breathing exercises

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  1. Systematic Desensitisation
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Second, the patient creates a fear hierarchy starting at stimuli that create the least anxiety and building up in stages to the most fear provoking images

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  1. Systematic Desensitisation
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Third, the patient works their way up the fear hierarchy, starting at the least unpleasant stimuli and practising their relaxation technique as they go

158
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how many sessions are used when people are using Systematic Desensitisation

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4-6 if the phobia is mild

12 for a severe phobia

159
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exposure can be done in two ways

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In vitro

In vivo

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in vitro

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the client imagines exposure to the phobic stimulus

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in vivo

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the client is actually exposed to the phobic stimulus.

162
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which out of vitro and vivo is more successful

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vivo

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practical issue - Systematic Desensitisation - imagine

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it relies on the client’s ability to be able to imagine the fearful situation.

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practical issue - Systematic Desensitisation - time

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Systematic desensitization is a slow process, taking on average 6-8 sessions

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Theoretical Issues - Systematic Desensitisation - mental disorders

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SD is not effective in treating serious mental disorders like depression and schizophrenia.

166
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Empirical Evidence - Systematic Desensitisation - Rothbaum

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Rothbaum used SD with participants who were afraid of flying. Following treatment 93% agreed to take a trial flight. It was found that anxiety levels were lower than those of a control group who had not received SD

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Ethical Issues - Systematic Desensitisation

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SD creates high levels of anxiety when patients are initially exposed, which raises ethical issues and so questions appropriateness

168
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Flooding

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Flooding works by exposing the patient directly to their worst fears.

169
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what is the aim of flooding - exposure

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expose the sufferer to the phobic object or situation for an extended period of time in a safe and controlled environment.

170
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what is the aim of flooding - association

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Prolonged intense exposure eventually creates a new association between the feared object and something positive

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how often is flooding used

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rarely

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what did Wolpe report in 1969

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reported the case of a client whose anxiety intensified to such as degree that flooding therapy resulted in her being hospitalized.

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