Psykologi och hälsa Flashcards

1
Q

General paresis

A

Mental deterioration, bizarre behavior result from massive brain deterioration from syphilis.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Abnormality

A

Defined in different ways:

  • One is if the person is severely distressed. Then their condition is considered abnormal.
  • Dysfunctional for either the person or society and other’s in the person’s vicinity. Lack of control plays a big role here.
  • Societal judgement guided by norms concerning deviance.

Abnormal behavior is distressing for individual, dysfunctional for individual and/or so culturally deviant that other’s deem it maladaptive or inappropriate.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Diagnostic reliability

A

Clinicians using the system show high level of agreement in their diagnostic decisions.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Diagnostic validity

A

The diagnostic categories should effectively capture the essential features of the various disorders.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

DSM-IV-TR(Diagnostic and statistical manual of Mental disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision) has five axes based on five dimensions.

A

Axis 1: Primary diagnosis. Represents the patients primary clinical symptoms, the deviant behavior or thought processes that are happening at that time.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Axis 2:

A

Reflects longstanding personality disorders or mental retardation which may influence thoughts, behavior and response to clinical intervention.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Axis 3:

A

Represents present medical conditions such as blood pressure, recent concussions etc.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Axis 4

A

According to the vulnerability-stressor model, a diagnosis of the person’s psychosocial and environmental problems recently, is made.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Axis 5

A

An evaluation of the person’s coping abilities, reflected in recent adaptive functioning.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Functional perspective

A

The perspective we create when we try to accumulate knowledge of people.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Contexual functionalism

A

Finding the functions of behavior in the context in which they’re exhibited. Is often supplemented to a topographic analysis.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Functionally equivalent behaviors

A

Different behavior that perform the same function.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Pragmatic truth perspective

A

What is true is dependent on what we are trying to accomplish. Pragmatics drives the formulation of the answer as to what is true.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

BAT(Behavioral avoidance/approach test)

A

A test designed to measure how far a patient is able to carry out an activity before it becomes unbearable, then you can record thoughts and emotions that arise when that point is reached, and even before it is reached.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Topographic analysis

A

Only describes behavior but does not explain it causally. Looks at excess, deficiency in the behavior. Aswell as duration and intensity.

  1. Sammanhanget
  2. Frekvens.
  3. Intensitet
  4. Duration

Important to use verbs instead of nouns. Concretisize. Positive terms, no negations. Inner, outer behavior? Voluntary, involuntary?

What does the patient want, which behavior?

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Contingency/Sequence analysis

A

Contingency means a context in which an event has a specific probablity of occuring dependent on another event.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

ABC-

A

Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence.

Three levels of explanation that allows a therapist to understand what happens, when/why and what follows as a result of the behavior.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Establishing condition

A

The fourth factor that sets the scene for the ABC sequence. It’s basically in which condition or context is all of this happening? It is like A and C susceptible to external influence.

The establishing conditioning enhances the reinforcer. Being hungry increases the reward from the reinforcer of eating.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Positive reinforcement

A

Adding a consequence increases the probability of a behavior being repeated.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Negative reinforcement

A

Removing a consequence increases the probability of a behavior being repeated.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Positive punishment

A

Adding a consequence decreases the probability of a behavior being repeated.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Negative punishment

A

Removing a consequence decreases the probability of a behavior being repeated.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Aversive

A

Associated with negative affect.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

Appetitive

A

Associated with positive affect.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

Generalized reinforcer

A

A reinforcer that brings about various benefits. It is a reinforcer which value must be learned or conditioned. It has no biological value for the person, instead it is a medium to other reinforcers. Money is a generalized reinforcer that opens up the possibility of acquiring a primary reinforcer such as food.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

Primary reinforcer

A

Unconditioned reinforcer that has biological value to us. Needs no external reinforcer to drive behavior, the behavior has an internal reinforcer built in.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

Utsläckningskrevad

A

Behavior’s intensity or frequency briefly increases to try to obtain the reinforcer that used to accompany behavior, but after seeing that this does not occur, behavior is extinguished.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

Cardinal symptom

A

The most important symptom for a diagnosis.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

Life event scales

A

Self-reports that quanitfy the amount of stress a person has suffered over a period of time.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

Strong stressors

A

The most stressful stressors are unpredictable, uncontrollable and that last a long duration.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

Cognitive appraisal of stressor

A

Four aspects.

Primary appraisal: Of the demands and nature of the situation.

Secondary appraisal: The resources available to cope with it.

Judgements of the possible consequences of the situation.

Appraisal of the possible personal meaning of the situation, what could it imply about us?

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
32
Q

General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

A

Consists of three phases, alarm, resistance and exhaustion.

Sudden activation of the sympathetic nervous system triggers the alarm phase.

Resistance is when the body’s resources are mobilized during a prolonged time. Stress hormones are continually secreted. There is a limit to how long this can be sustained.

Exhaustion occurs when the body’s immune system is too weak, and vulnerability to disease is very high. Can lead to collapse, sickness or death.

Critique against GAS theory:

Unspecific and general.

Are rats and humans really able to be compared when rats were tortured?

What is stress? The stimulus or response?
Is it the emotional interpretation of signals?
Everything threathens homeostasis, is everything a stressor?

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
33
Q

Biphasic model of stress

A

Short term acute stress enhances immune response.

Long term chronic stress supresses it.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
34
Q

Vulnerability factors

A

Things that increase our susceptibility to stressful events.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
35
Q

Protective factors

A

Environmental or personal factors that facilitate good response to stressful events.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
36
Q

Coping self-efficacy

A

The belief that we are capable of coping with a stressful event. Previous success builds it, failures undermine it.

Seeing others cope helps us feel that we too are able. Aswell as social persuasion increases coping self-efficacy.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
37
Q

Type A behavior pattern

A

Being agitated, hostile, competetive, and having fast speech.
Type A behavior is defined in terms of an extreme sense of time urgency, impatience, competitiveness, and aggression/hostility.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
38
Q

Problem-focused coping

A

Strategies that confront the problematic situation or that change it so that it is no longer deemed stressful.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
39
Q

Emotion-focused coping

A

Strategies that manage the emotional responses resulting from the stressful event.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
40
Q

Seeking social support

A

Turnings for others for emotional support and assistance, either emotionally or in the form of tangible aid, such as money.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
40
Q

Seeking social support

A

Turnings for others for emotional support and assistance, either emotionally or in the form of tangible aid, such as money.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
41
Q

Discriminative stimulus

A

A stimulus that indicates what behavior is appropriate in order to be rewarded or avoid a punishment.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
42
Q

Extinction

A

Respondent conditioning: When conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus no longer occur simutaneously. That leads to the conditioned stimulus not leading to a conditioned response. This is because the unconditioned stimulus is no longer present, thus the predictor which is the conditioned stimulus does not work as it should.

Operant conditioning: When a consequence that was reinforcing the behavior no longer follows the behavior.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
43
Q

Learning

A

The process in which an experience produces a relatively enduring and adaptive change in an organism’s capacity for behavior.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
44
Q

Interoceptive conditioning

A

An internal stimulus that triggers a respondent conditioned response. An increase in pulse may lead to a conditioned response of panic because a higher pulse has been conditioned in relation to panic attacks.

45
Q

Intermittent reinforcer

A

When the reinforcer is only occasionally applied to the behavior. It is a potent reinforcer.

46
Q

Generalization

A

Things similar to the conditioned stimulus will also elicit a similar response to the conditioned one.

47
Q

Schedules of reinforcement

A

A reinforcement schedule states when a reinforcer will be applied, if at all.

48
Q

Temporal relation, kontiguitet

A

Förstärkningen/Bestraffningen bör ske nära i tid till beteendet.

49
Q

Causal relation, response-reinforcer contingency

A

Is the reinforcer necessary and strong enough?

50
Q

Variable-ratio schedule

A

Reinforcer is varied and irregular, this is a strong reinforcer and creates a stable and steady flow of responses in search of reinforcer.

51
Q

Self-instruction training

A

Talking to oneself to better guide effective coping mechanisms.

There are four stages in which this process unfolds.

  1. Preparing for the stressor.
  2. Confronting the stressor.
  3. Dealing with the feeling of being overwhelmed.
  4. Cognitively appraising the efforts used for coping.
52
Q

Gate control theory

A

Experience of pain comes from the opening and closing of gating mechanisms n the nervous system.

53
Q

Transtheoretical model - six stages of change

A
  1. Precontemplation: Person does not perceive a health-related problem, denies that something is unhealthy or feels powerless to change.
  2. Contemplation: Perceiving a problem or a desireability to change but have not acted upon it. Until the perceived benefits of the behavior change outweighs the effort costs of changing, contemplators will not change.
  3. Preparation: The person has decided to change, is preparing to do so, taking preliminary steps to change - such as cutting down on the number of cigarettes that they smoke daily.
  4. Action: The person changes their behavior. High effort is involved here. Dependent on behavior-controll skills.
  5. Maintenance: Successful at avoiding relapse for at least 6 months. May still relapse at a later stage, but then they reinstate their change efforts. Smokers typically pass through 3-5 cycles of this before kicking the habit.
  6. The change in behavior is so ingrained and under personal control that the problematic behavior never returns.
54
Q

Allostatic load

A

The stressful load that repeated and prolonged stress reactions have on the body as the allostatic system tries to prepare and adjust for. It is the activation of the stress response and the upholding of this response that damages the body and mind. Long term stress reaction.

55
Q

ISO-strain

A

Low grade of control, high demands and low social support. Worst type of strain.

56
Q

Occupational burnout

A

A state of exhaustion accompanied by a lack of professional efficacy and cynicism towards the value of one’s occupation.

57
Q

Conservation of resources theory

A

Burnout is expected to occur when objects, conditions, people, energies that we value and are motivated to obtain, maintain and protect are threathened or lost OR when a person invests resources but fails to regain them.

58
Q

Health

A

The state of complete physical, psychosocial, economical and spiritual well-being, not simply the absence of illness.

59
Q

Psychological factors

A

Emotions, thoughts, behavior, learning, attitudes and assumptions, motivation.

60
Q

Biological factors of biopsychosocial model

A

Inherited vulnerability and previous medical history affects how future pathology develops.

61
Q

Social factors of biopsychosocial model

A

Socioeconomical, socioemotional and sociocultural factors: Workplace, family, ethnicity, economy, culture, religion, social status and roles.

62
Q

Illness cognitions

A

Subjective experience of illness. Factors that affect: interpretation of symptoms(catastrophizing), emotional response and coping

63
Q

Motivational interviewing

A

Guiding a person through interviewing them about their current self and their ideal self.

64
Q

Multimodal treatment approaches

A

Aversion therapy: creating an aversive link to the behavior.
Relaxation and stress management training.
Self-monitoring
Coping and social-skills training
Positive reinforcement procedures to strengthen change

65
Q

Relapse prevention

A

Reduces the risk of relapse. This is done through preparing in advance for risky situations that might trigger relapse. Slipping is okay, relapsing should however be prevented. To do this, the behavioral changes need to be maintained. This can be done through exposure therapy.

66
Q

Abstinence violation effect

A

The person becomes upset and self-blaming over the lapse and convinces themselves they will never be able to resist temptation.

67
Q

Stress induced analgesics

A

Stress induced painkillers: If I hit my shin and it hurts and I then see a mountain lion I might not feel the pain because a more stressful stimulus has revealed itself.

68
Q

preventions

A

primary: for all people
secondary: for people at risk
tertiary: people who are feeling bad.

69
Q

Diagnosis

A

Helpful for three reasons
1. Knowing we are talking about the same thing.
2. Treatment plans.
3. Investigating ethiology, the causes of the condition.

70
Q

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

A

Exploring subconscious conflicts aswell as cognitions and emotions that create problems in the daily life.

71
Q

Cognitive behavioral therapy

A

Focuses on conditioned behavior and changing the responses to conditoned stimulus.

Focus on information processing and filtering and interpreting information and how to use that to our advantage.

72
Q

Interpersonal psychotherapy

A

Emphasizes interpersonal issues and psychological issues. No assumptions of ethiology but focuses on importance of interpersonal relationships in the present moment.

Four interpersonal themes:
Role conflicts
Grief
Role changes
Interpersonal competency flaws

Originally meant for depression but is also used for other diagnoses.

73
Q

Functional behavior classes

A

Topographically distinct behaviors that fill the same purpose and have the same function.

74
Q

Behavior observation

A

Antecedents, Context, Establishing circumstances, Behavior, Consequences.

74
Q

Habituation

A

We become less and less responsive to stimulus that is non-threathening, ultimately not consciously experiencing it.

75
Q

Sensitization

A

Becoming more and more responsive to aversive or threathening stimulus, experiencing it more intensely.

76
Q

Respondent learning

A

Coupling a neutral stimulus to a biologically inherent one, ultimately conditioning the neutral one to become conditioned and eliciting a similar response as the unconditioned one. Albeit less intense.

Good neutral stimulus that can be CS:
Clear stimulus.
Unprecedented, thus not conditioned to any other experience.
Typically of the same modality as the unconditioned stimulus.

77
Q

Reinstatement

A

The conditioned behavior is reinstated after exposure to US(Unconditioned stimulus). A person might use earbuds, gets a headache, stops usage then starts again, does not suffer headache, but once again after a while suffers it again, the conditioned response, in this case aversion to earbuds comes back.

78
Q

Renewal

A

The conditioned behavior is reinstated after a change in context when the extinction occured in a previous context.

79
Q

Model learning

A

4 steps.

  1. Attention to what is done.
  2. Retention of observed behavior.
  3. Reproduction - being capable of repeating the behavior.
  4. Motivation - wanting to perform the behavior for a reward or avoiding punishment.
80
Q

Prevention

A
  1. Primary Prevention(PP): Modifying risk factors before disease arises. Stopping smoking, dieting better, exercising.
  2. SP : Actions to discover disease before it manifests itself. Screening and self-assessment. Such as checking testicles when showering.
  3. TP: Treatment and intervention of manifested disease. Physiotherapy, medicine, psychotherapy.
81
Q

3 types of stressors

A
  1. Daily Hassles - Losing keys
  2. Negative events - Death of loved one.
  3. Catastrophies - Natural disasters
82
Q

Fight or flight response

A

Prolonged stressors lead to biological decay. Physics-inspired explanation. A cortex that can take some strains but overstraining it leads to decreased endurance and ultimately exhausted cortex.

83
Q

Acute stress reaction

A

Signal reaches brain, amygdala, emotional response generated. Leads to activation of sympathetic nervous system. As well as the HPA-axis: Hypothalamus, Pituitary Gland and Adrenal gland.

83
Q

Acute stress reaction

A

Signal reaches brain, amygdala, emotional response generated. Leads to activation of sympathetic nervous system. As well as the HPA-axis: Hypothalamus, Pituitary Gland and Adrenal gland.

84
Q

Allostasis

A

Homeostasis is upheld by allostasis which is the body’s secondary cognitive system that predicts future needs thus prepares for them in order to minimize uncertainty.

85
Q

Demand-control model

A

Job demand and job control influences how stressed we are. If we have high demands and low control we are bound to be very stressed as well as low social support is a strong moderator for stress.

86
Q

Effort-reward imbalance

A

Exerting high effort for low reward might take a toll on us. Whether the reward is monetary or social is irrelevant for the stressful response.

Reward can be both intrinsic and extrinsic.

87
Q

JD-R model

A

Job-demand-resource model. High demands and low resources both personally as well as professionaly leads to a stressed response.

Social support is essential for employee well-being

88
Q

Stress-management

A

In the chain reaction of:
Stressor –> Coping –> Stress response –> Overload

Treatment is typically focused on stressor and coping. Such as effective communication skills, time management, emotional intelligence. Coping can refer to relaxation exercises.

89
Q

Appraisal theory

A
  1. Primary appraisal: Interpretation of the demands and stressor.
  2. Secondary appraisal: Interpretation of available resources to cope.
  3. Stressful response.
  4. Coping mechanisms.
  5. Reappraisal: Pacing and learning. Reframing ideas and assumptions of one self in relation to events, may modulate emotional responses in the future.
90
Q

Risks of shallow theories

A

Mislabeling central human activities as harmful because they may be stressful.

Risk of stress-phobia.

Unspecific interventions due to unspecific definition of stress, leads to high variability in healthcare quality.

Simplified theories leads to missing central aspects of how exhaustion develops and is sustained.

91
Q

Behavior-medicinal take on stress

A

What is a considered suffering depends on the needs and goals that each patient expresses. It is only a problem if it interferes with how we want to live our life.

92
Q

Alternatives to biomedicinal model

A

Psychosomatics: Psychological illness manifests as somatic distress in the body.
Health education: Information and it’s effects in improving health and life style choices.
Behavioral medicine: Health improved through usage of learning psychology.

93
Q

Biopsychosocial model

A

All three aspects affect health and give rise to disease. Improving all dimensions is essential to ensure improved health.

Health behavior and sickness behavior comes from biological factors such as genetics, metabolism etc, behavior such as diet and exercise, social such as ethnicity, social status, role etc.

94
Q

Chronical illness

A

How one is affected is influenced by a number of factors:

Sense of control over situation
Acceptance of condition
Perception of condition
Interpretation of condition

95
Q

Key components of biopsychosocial perception of pain from stress perspective

A

Multidimensional perception of pain.
Prior vulnerabilities.
Stress and challenges.
Vulnerabilites from before(diathesis) interact with stress.
Social context, model learning. If your mother never complained about pain you are less likely to do so aswell.

96
Q

Assumptions of biopsychosocial model

A
  1. Individual is responsible in part for her health.
  2. A holistic approach to the situation, not just segmented and compartamentalized. Not just biomedicinal or physical assessment.
  3. Focus on the individual’s involvement, integrity and overall well-being.
  4. Focus on interactional process between physiological and psychological factors in a sociocultural context.
  5. Psychological factors are not just a consequence of the illness but also a causing factor.
  6. Health and illness is on a spectrum, not quantitive stages.
  7. Body and spirit interact and influence each other.
  8. Psychological influences:
    Direct: Stress –> Sickness
    Indirect: Stress –> Cognitions –> Behavioral changes –> Sickness
97
Q

Strengths of biopsychosocial model

A
  1. Higher patient satisfaction.
  2. Development for treatments to reduce risk behavior that contributes to health dangers.
  3. Increased comptency and understanding of one’s own situation, not just a passive recipient of healthcare.
  4. Predicts disease, allows for preventive measures. If we know of risk factors socially or psychologically we can prevent biological factors worsening aswell by treating the other dimensions.
  5. Remarkeable improvement in quality of life in patients with chronic illness.
  6. Increased psychosocial support for chronically ill patients.
  7. Physiotherapy and behavioral medicine.
98
Q

Setbacks with biopsychosocial model

A
  1. More expensive, time consuming
  2. Complex assessment, many factors.
  3. Theoretical base needs to be evaluated and developed.
  4. Etymological factors harder to determine, causality is not clear-cut.
99
Q

Behavioral medicine

A

Applying techniques from behavioristic principles to treat behavioral problems that arise as a result of physical disease.

BUT ALSO treating physical illness with behavoristic principles of conditioned behavior and model learning etc.

Consequences of diagnosis are differentiated from diagnosis. Allows for prioritization of goals. Different professionals may treat different consequences of the same diagnose.

100
Q

Perceived behavioral control

A

Self-efficacy important here. It is a moderator for how well we will perceive our ability to cope with a situation.

101
Q

Physiological moderators

A

Social support and recovery ability.

102
Q

Factors of adjustment

A

Explaining model: Why did this happen? Satisfactory explanatory model leads to higher grade of acceptance.
Effects: Both perceived and real ones.
Self-efficacy: Will I be able to handle this?

103
Q

Bedömning av funktionsnivå

A

Hur patients psykiska symptom inverkar på vardagen och i vilken utsträckning.

Man gör en funktionsnivåbedömning för att avgöra huruvida pat. uppfyller konsekvenskriteriet i DSM-5, inverkar symptomen på patientens funktion? Kan även underlätta diagnostiken, om man ser hur funktionsnivån är nu och hur den varit tidigare kan man få ledtrådar om vad det kan handla om.

Avgör vårdbehovet - om man har låg funktionsnivå behövs starkare insatser

Allokering av resurser: Den som har det värst behöver mest vård och då behövs resurser.

Relevant för utvärdering av utfallet av insatser, lyckades vi ge patienten en bättre funktionsnivå för att leva sitt liv som den vill?

Mycket underlag för att bedöma funktionsnivån får vi från det anamnestiska samtalet.
Dock svårt att bedöma vad som är nedsatt funktion - relativt till personen tidigare eller andra personer i liknande kontext och som är i samma utvecklingsnivå eller livsstadie. Standardiserade instrument är till hjälp

104
Q

WHODAS 2.0
WSAS

A

Standardiserade instrument för att bedöma funktionsnivå. Ställer frågor om olika aspekter av funktion. Självskattningsformulär.

105
Q

ABAS-2, Vineland

A

Standardiserade anhörighetsanamnesverktyg för att bedöma funktionsnivån på en patient.

106
Q

Syfte med kartläggning under anamnestagning

A
  1. Visa intresse, skapa förtroende och ge utrymme för att berätta
  2. Få info om sårbarhet, riskfaktorer, utlösande händelser, stressorer, vidmakthållande faktorer, skyddsfaktorer och livssituation
  3. Få information om funktion och relatera det till diagnostik.
107
Q
A