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Psychological Causal Factors of PHOBIAS

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-Vicarious Conditioning
-Evolutionary Preparedness

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Vicarious Conditioning

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Person to person learning through observation

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Evolutionary Preparedness

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Prepared fears that keep us alive

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Biological Causal Factors of PHOBIAS

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-Genetics
-Temperament

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Phobia Treatments

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-exposure therapy
-virtual reality
-participant modeling
-cognitive techniques combinations

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What does the first panic attack in a panic disorder follow?

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Feelings of distress or highly stressful life circumstances

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Parts of the brain involved in panic

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-amygdala
-hippocampus
-higher cortical centers

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Biochemical abnormalities involved in panic

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-low levels of GABA
-noradrenergic and serotonergic systems

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What does the hippocampus have to do with panic disorder and agoraphobic avoidance?

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it’s involved in the learning of emotional responses, which is why you have anticipatory anxiety about another panic attack or leaving your house

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According to one theory, where in the brain do panic attacks arise from?

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amygdala

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OCD common comorbid disorders

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-other anxiety or mood disorders
-depression (80%)

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Exposure therapy

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phobias and OCD

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OCD and ED connection

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OCD: look “normal”, ED: look emaciated
OCD: obsessed/distressed about appearance ED: generally satisfied with appearance

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fear and anxiety share ___________ components

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-cognitive/subjective
-psychological
-behavioral

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mood disorders defining feature:

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extreme emotion

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two key moods of mood disorders

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depression and mania

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anhedonia

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inability to feel pleasure for the things you normally feel pleasure for

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18
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unipolar mood disorder

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only depressive episodes

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How many weeks of symptoms required for an MDD diagnosis?

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two

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forms of depression

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MDD
Persistent depressive disorder
Postpartum depression
Bereavement triggered depression

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cognitive diatheses that contribute to depression

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negative thoughts about yourself, losing a parent early in life

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how is depression a cognitive issue

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reward/punishment. ex: you stay in bed all day and avoid your problems, which makes you want to just keep staying in bed

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depression as a cognitive issue

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how you think about yourself in situations, how you do you explain things/look at the world (always down on yourself)

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attribution

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your way of explaining things (positive/pessimistic attribution style)

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cyclothymic disorder

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“baby” bipolar, similar symptoms/mood swings but more mild

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bipolar II

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not full-blown mania

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depression:mania ratio of bipolar

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about 3:1

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T/F: there is a big biological component to depression

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True

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29
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standard bipolar treatment

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lithium

30
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suicide attempt peaks

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12-20
45-55
75

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_________ are more likely to attempt, _________ are more likely to succeed

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women, men

32
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Disorders that predict suicide

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PTSD
Bipolar
Conduct disorder
Intermittent explosive disorder

33
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why are adolescents very at risk?

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their frontal cortex isn’t developed so they’re impulsive

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Somatic Symptom Disorder

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Significant focus on physical symptoms like pain or fatigue which causes emotional distress and difficulties in activities of daily living.

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Environmental cause of somatic symptom disorder

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growing up sick or being around people who are sick

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absorption

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you’re so absorbed in your feelings that you can’t get out of/over it

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alexithymia

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you can’t identify your feelings (happens in teens especially)

38
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people with SSD are hypersensitive to their body sensations, think _______________ about their symptoms

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catastrophically

39
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T/F: you should do extensive testing on someone with somatic symptom disorder

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False. Try to limit testing because it could stress them out more and/or validate their worries.

40
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T/F: People with illness anxiety experience somatic symptoms

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False (or very mild if any)

41
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Which is more easily reassured? SSD or illness anxiety?

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SSD (but still rare)

42
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conversion disorder

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a mental health issue disrupts how brain works. Causes real, physical, uncontrollable symptoms. Symptoms can include seizures, weakness or paralysis, or reduced input from one or more senses

43
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should you treat conversion disorder with medication?

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no. symptoms can usually be removed.

44
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T/F: there is gain with conversion disorder

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True. The person gets out of whatever was making them anxious/emotional

45
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with what disorder are patients typically medically uneducated/unsophisticated

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conversion disorder

46
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factitious disorder

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intentionally produce psychological or physical symptoms for sympathy, attention, money from govt., etc.

47
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________ is very important with factitious disorder and malingering because it detects lying

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MMPI-II

48
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malingering

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faking for money, trying to deceive

49
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derealization

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perception of the world is lost

50
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depersonalization

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perception of yourself in your own reality is lost

51
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dissociative amnesia

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can’t recall simple personal information, often follows traumatic events

52
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dissociative fugue

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identity loss, assume new identity (commonly in the news)

53
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the goal of working with someone with DID

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to integrate their personalities

54
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why does DID happen? What is the reason for having all these personalities?

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to protect themselves after trauma (horcrux example)

55
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most people with DID have been

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sexually or physically abuse (more sexual)

56
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Two most common forms of eating disorders

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-anorexia nervosa
-bulimia nervosa

57
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Anorexia types

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-restricting type
-binge-eating/purging type

58
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Anorexia is the single ____________ psychological disorder

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deadliest

59
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a significant amount of ED patients have comorbid ________ or ___________ disorders

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mood, anxiety

60
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Bulimia has other characteristics than eating/binging and purging. They are:

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lying, being sneaky and deceptive

61
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T/F: Bulimia patients are typically normal weight

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true

62
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substance abuse disorders are common for what ED?

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Bulimia Nervosa

63
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Binge-eating disorder (different from bulimia):

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frequent episodes of binge eating with NO compensatory behaviors, typically overweight/obese

64
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Does gender/sexuality play a role in ED prevalence?

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Yes. More common in women and queer men (underreporting in men makes gender comparison difficult though)

65
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physical effects of anorexia other than being underweight

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kidney damage, renal failure, death from arrhythmias. also effects brain and nerves, heart, hormones, hair, blood, muscles and joints, intestines, skin, and body fluids

66
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physical effects of bulimia

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electrolyte imbalances, low potassium (hypokalemia), damage to heart, hands, throat, teeth

67
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risk of suicide is extremely high in ___________.

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anorexics

68
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long term prognosis for bulimia and binge-eating is

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much better than anorexia

69
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T/F: most people who recover from an ED will develop another one later on in life

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True. But it’s mostly transitions between the two subtypes of anorexia and from anorexia to bulimia

70
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