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SAFMEDs Chapter 20: Theories and Diagnosis of Psychological Disorders Flashcards

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Psychopathology

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-the scientific study of mental disorders and different types of maladaptive behaviors associated with various disorders

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Abnormal psychology

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-dedicated to the study and treatment of psychological disorders or mental illness

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Maladaptive behavior

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  • behavior that causes harm by making it difficult to fulfill the normal functions of everday life
  • difficulty maintaining close relationships
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Personal distress

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  • a person’s individual perception of his or her own emotional distress
  • person reports feeling pain and discomfort associated with the abnormality
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Atypical behavior

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-Behavior that deviates from what is considered socially or culturally normal

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Violation of cultural norms

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-behavior that deviates from what is considered socially or culturally normal to the point where it is unacceptable and intolerable

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Insanity

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  • legal term
  • not a mental health or psychological term
  • the inability to know right from wrong
  • determines whether an individual is to be held accountable or liable for criminal behavior
  • the inability to control one’s actions during a criminal event
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Mental incompetence

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-a legal term applied when criminal suspects are deemed mentally ill and unable to understand the criminal proceedings or aid in their own defense

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Psychosis

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-a mental disorder so severe a person loses touch with reality

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American Psychiatric Association (APA)

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-an organization of psychiatrists working together to ensure humane care and effective treatment for all persons with mental illness

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Psychological disorder

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-a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotional regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning

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Mental disorder

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-a dysfunctional and maladaptive pattern of behavior

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Demonology

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  • an approach in which holes are drilled into a living person’s skull to release demonic spirits thought to be causing the person’s disordered behaviors
  • trephining- skull hole drilling
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Hippocrates

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  • the father of medicine
  • stuggested mental illness stemed from an imbalance of the four humors
  • laid the intellectual groundwork for the idea that psychological disorders arose from physical sources
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Four humors

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  • hippocrates
  • imbalance of bodily fluids leads to mental illness
  • Melancholic: black bile
  • Phlegmatic: phlegm
  • Choleric: yellow bile
  • Sanguine: blood
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Lobotomy

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-a surgical procedure to damage or remove the frontal lobe

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or Mental Disorders (DSM-5)

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-manual used as the source of criteria for defining psychological disorders

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Etiology

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-the causes of psychological disorders

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Eclectic

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-a combination of established approaches to diagnose and treat individuals with psychological disorders

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Medical model

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  • biological approach
  • psychological disorders have a biological cause
  • predominant model
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Psychological models

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  • incorporate a number of different approaches to explain psychological disorders
  • psychodynamic, psychosocial, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic models
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Psychodynamic model

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  • freudian
  • all psychological problems or disorders stem from repressing past trauma, memories or thoughts in the unconscious mind to avoid anxiety
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Behavioral model

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-all behavior whether adaptive or maladaptive is learned

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Cognitive model

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-psychological disorders are illogical, irrational or maladaptive thought processes

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Humanistic model

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-mental illness stems from issues involving low self esteem, poor self concent and the feelings and maladaptive behaviors that result from the inability to be one’s authentic self

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Diathesis-stress model

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-recognizes a combination of biological and environmental causes of psychological disorders

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Diathesis

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-the predisposition of biologically based vulnerability to a particular mental illness

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Stressors

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-environmental events that can trigger the onset of a biologically based disorder

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Sociocultural model

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-emphasizes social and cultural influences in the individual’s environment

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Cultural syndromes

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-categories of similar symptoms and explanations of causes that occur in a culturally-specific context and are recognized within the culture

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Cultural idioms of distress

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-expressions of distress that do not necessarily involve specific symptoms or disorders but provide shared ways of experiencing and expressing personal and social concerns within a culture

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Taijin kyofusho

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  • social anxiety disorder specific to japam

- a man or woman experiences intense fear that his or her body will embarrass others

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Susto

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  • specific to Latin America
  • severe anxiety along with physical symptoms
  • caused by a religious-magic traumatic event that separates the soul from the body
  • apathy, insomnia, irritability and diarrhea
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Amok

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-southeast asia

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Hwabyeong

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  • specific to the korean peninsula

- overwhelming feeling of anger related to perceived unfairness

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Culutral relativism

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-a concept that explains the intersection between psychopathology and culture

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Biopsychosocial approach

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  • an integrated model that combines the biological, psychological and sociocultural models
  • believed by most professionals to be a more thorough approach to use when treating psychological disorders
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Prevalence

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-the proportion of a specific population that is estimated to have a certain condition within a given year

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Any mental illness (AMI)

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-mental, behavioral or emotional disorders diagnosed according to specific DSM-5 criteria

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Serious mental illness (SMI)

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-mental, behavior or emotional disorders defined above but that result in serious functional impairment that substantially interferes with major life activities

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Lifetime prevalence

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-the percentage of the population that at some point in their lives will have experienced the condition

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David Rosenhan

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-pseudopatients

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