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Sociocultural Psychiatry Flashcards

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What is the social classification in Britain?

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Class 1: Professional, managerial
Class 2: Intermediate
Class 3: Skilled, manual, clerical
Class 4: semi-skilled
Class 5: unskilled
Class 6: unemployed
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Which psychiatric disorders are not as common in lower social classes?

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Anorexia
Alcohol abuse
Bipolar

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What is the Jarman Index?

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Scoring system for level of social deprivation in a community.

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Who created the concept ‘sick role’?

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Talcott Parsons

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What makes up the sick role?

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Sick person is exempt from normal social roles.
Sick people are not responsible for their disease.
Sick person must try and get well.
Sick person must seek help and cooperate with care.

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What is the difference between illness and sickness?

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Illness: personal experience
Sickness: social consequences

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Define impairment

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Interference with structural or psychological functions

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Define disability

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Interference with activities of the whole person in relation of immediate environment.

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Define handicap

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Social disadvantage resulting from disability

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What does the Transtheoretical Model (Prochaska and DiClemente) state?

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How individuals can change illness-related behaviour:

  1. Consciousness raising (help them gather info)
  2. Choosing - increase awareness of alternatives
  3. Catharsis - emotional expression of problem behaviour
  4. Conditional stimuli
  5. Contingency control - positive reinforcement + self-appraisal
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What is conditional stimuli in the Transtheoretical Model?

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Stimulus control - avoidance of stimuli associated with problem behaviour
Counterconditioning - training a healthier response to stimuli.

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What are the six stages of change under the Transtheoretical Model?

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  1. Precontemplation
  2. Contemplation
  3. Preparation
  4. Action
  5. Maintenance
  6. Relapse
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Who created Motivational Interviewing?

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Miller & Rollnick, 1991

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Define health advocacy

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Process of supporting and empowering patients and carers to express their opinions, ideas and concerns and enabling them to access appropriate information and services and promote their rights.

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What is the libertarian principle in resource allocation?

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Resources distributed according to market principle - patient as consumer, if they can pay then resources are available to them.

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What does utilitarian principle suggest towards resource allocation?

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Resources distributed according to maximum benefit to all

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Which principle suggests resources should be distributed according to need?

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Egalitarian

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What does restorative principle suggest in terms of resource allocation?

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Resources distributed with positive discrimination towards disadvantaged.

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Outline the stages of the family cycle

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Stage 1: formation of family
Stage 2: child rearing (birth to adolescence). Maintain marital relationship.
Stage 3: child launching - child leaves home.
Stage 4: return of independence - growth and extension of family.
Stage 5: dissolution - decline/demise of partners.

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What are the schizophrenogenic family patterns according to Lidz?

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Marital schism

Marital skew

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What is marital schism?

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Family is in disequilibrium due to repeated threats of parental separation. Parents downgrade roles of each other.

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What is marital skew?

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Family is at an equilibrium that is skewed and achieved at an expense of the distorted parental relationship.

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What did Wynne suggest re families and schizophrenia?

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Certain types of communication may be more present:
Pseudo-hostility + Pseudo-mutuality
Child forced to accept and develop communication that will negate and deny existence of meaningless relationships in the family.

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What is the double-bind relationship?

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Bateson: superficial verbal communication contradicts behavioural and deeper communication amongst family. These mixed messages keep child in a double bind that increases risk of psychosis.

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Who coined the term schizophenogenic mother?

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Freida Fromm-Reichmann

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What is the schizophenogenic mother?

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Rejecting, impervious to feelings of others, rigid in moralism re sex and fear of intimacy.

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Who created the concept of expressed emotions?

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Brown & Rutter (1966)

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What are the measures for expressed emotion concept?

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Critical comments
Positive remarks
Emotional over invovement
Hostility
Emotional warmth
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Which components of the expressed emotions measures were most predictive of schizophrenia?

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Over-involvement
Critical comments
Hostility

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What is the Camberwell Family Interview?

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Individuals of family interviewed + patient.

If one relative is classified as high expressed emotion, then whole family could be classified as such.

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Who created the Life events and difficulties schedule?

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Brown and Harris

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What is the Life events and difficulties schedule?

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Life events are graded according to their meaning for the individual.

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What are some semi-structured ways of measuring life events?

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Life events and difficulties scale

Interview for recent life events (Paykel)

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What are some life event scales?

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Social readjustment rating scale (Holmes and Rahe)
Adverse childhood events scale
Hassles & uplifts scale (Lazarus and Folkman)

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Who created the biopsychosocial approach to psychiatry?

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Engel

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Who suggest the social drift/social selection theory for MH probems?

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Faris and Dunham

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According to Rutter, which risk factors in family environment correlate with childhood MH problems?

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Severe marital discord
Low social class
Large family size
Maternal MH disorder
Paternal criminality
Foster placement
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Who used the terms primary/secondary deviance to explain the process of labelling mh problems in society?

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Edwin Lemert

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What is primary deviance?

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General aberration from normality before person is identified as deviant.

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What is secondary deviance?

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Deviance in someone labelled as deviant by institutions such as society/criminal justice system.

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What are the types of suicide according to Durkheim?

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Altruistic
Egoistic
Fatalistic
Anomic

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What is altruistic suicide?

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Individual is overly attached to social norms and dies for society

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What is egoistic suicide?

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Excessive individualism but low social integration.

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What is fatalistic suicide?

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Society’s control on the individual is so strong that it interferes with moral values and personal goals.

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What is anomic suicide?

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Individual feels he has no guidance or regulations from society.

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What are the vulnerability factors for depression according to Brown and Harris (1978)

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Absence of close confiding relationship
Loss of mother before 11 years of age
Lack of employment outside home
3 or more children under 15 living at home.

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What does the social defeat hypothesis state?

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Long-term experiences of social disadvantage lead to sensitization of the dopamine system and increased baseline activity of this system. This increases the risk of schizophrenia.

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What does the notion of prepsychotic segregation state?

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Individuals who are psychosis prone find it hard to survive in countries of birth and therefore immigrate.

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What was Goffman’s definition of total institution?

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One whose character is symbolized by the barrier to social intercourse with the outside.

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What are the stages of Goffman’s ‘moral career’

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Betrayl funnel
Role stripping
Mortification
Privilege system

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What is the betrayl funnel in the moral career?

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People we trust conspire against un when we are unwell and report us to Healthcare professions (circuit of agents).

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What is the role stripping part of the moral career?

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Institutionalised process begins with assaults on the persons self, such as trading personal belongings for hospital materials.

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What is mortification in the moral career?

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Series of assaults on the persons self-image. E.g. private activities are on public display, person must ask permission. Also called civil death.

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What is privilege system according to moral career?

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The individual is inserted into the lowest rung of the privilege system, based on house rules. Freedom is a token of reward.

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What is binary living in institutions?

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Lives of the staff are in contrast due to power, connection with the outside world and ability to change their lives as they wish.

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What are secondary adjustments according to Goffman?

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Habitual arrangements used by patients who act as if their concern is to escape the institution.

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57
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Who used the term institutional neurosis?

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Russel Barton - 1976

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What is institutional neurosis?

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Characterized by apathy, lack of initiative and interest and submissiveness.

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What is clinical poverty?

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When social poverty and lack of stimulation are related to the severity of blunted affect, poverty of speech and social withdrawl in schizophrenia.

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Define penology.

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Societal response and treatment of crime and criminals.

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What is enacted stigma?

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Patients actual experience of discrimination

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What is courtesy stigma?

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Stigmatization of someone related to an individual with that problem (e.g. MH)

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What are the themes of stigma according to Hayward and Bright?

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Dangerousness
Attribution of responsibility
Poor prognosis
Disruption of social interaction

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What was Hagighat’s theory of stigma?

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Stigma serves the self-interest of stigmatisers in four ways:
Constitutional
Psychological
Economic
Evolutionary
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What is the constitutional aspect of Hagighat’s theory of stigma?

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Quick and easy stereotypes at the expensive of depth. Human brain prefers negative evaluations to positive.

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What is the psychological aspect of Hagighat’s theory of stigma?

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Human tendency uses the example of the unfortunate other to feel happier towards themselves.

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What is the economic aspect of Hagighat’s theory of stigma?

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To increase ones access to resources, stigmatisation is used as a weapon for competition.

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What is the evolutionary aspect of Hagighat’s theory of stigma?

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Stigma provides an evolutionary advance - e.g. avoiding such discriminated population from being chosen as sexual mates.

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What are the dimensions of stigma according to Jones?

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Concealability 
Course - if it is reversible
Disruptiveness - of interpersonal interactions
Aesthetics 
Origin - is it causal?
Peril - feeling of danger
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What is Corrigans theory of stigma?

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Three components:
Stereotypes
Prejudice
Social discrimination

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What is Link and Phelan (2001)’s theory of stigma?

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Labelling
Stereotyping - based on dominant cultural beliefs to group people
Separation
Status loss and discrimination

72
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What is Liz Sayce’s model for addressing stigma?

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Brain disease model
Individual growth model
Libertarian model
Disability inclusion model

73
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What is the brain disease model in stigma?

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MH is an illness like any other and is no ones fault. This can be paternalistic.

74
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What is the individual growth model in stigma?

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MH as a spectrum, including good MH.

75
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What is the Libertarian model in stigma?

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Advocates for equal rights for MH patients.

76
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What is the disability inclusion model for stigma?

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Promotes concept of social inclusion on civil rights grounds.

77
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Who created social role valorisation?

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Wolf Wolfensberger - 1983

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What is social role valorisation?

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Creating social roles for devalued people to enhance their competencies.

79
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What is the emic perspective?

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The perspective of an individual about their own cultural group.

80
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What does the etic perspective assume?

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Universality of illness
Invariance of core symptoms
Validity of diagnostic constructs

81
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Define ethnicity

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A set of cultural patterns (values, beliefs, roles), heritage or ancestry shared by a social group of common national or geographic origin.

82
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What are the types of acculturation according to Berry?

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Integration
Separation
Assimilation
Marginalisation

83
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What does assimilation mean in Berrys model of acculturation?

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High degree of adoption of new culture

Low degree of retention of culture of origin

84
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According to Berry’s model of acculturation, what is the type when someone has a high degree of retention of their cultural origin but low degree of adoption of the new culture?

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Separation

85
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What type of acculturation leads to a risk of MH problems?

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When someone loses their culture of origin voluntarily but does not assimilate or integrate.

86
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What is enculturation?

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Culture being learnt through contact with family, friends, media etc.

87
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What is melting pot according to Berry’s method of acculturation?

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High degree of relationship among various cultures

Low degree of retention of individual culture identities

88
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What is segregation according to Berry>

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Low degree of relationship among various cultures in society

High degree of retention of individual culture identitites

89
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What is cultural diffusion/syncretism?

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Spread of cultural traits through contacts accross society.

90
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What is sojourning?

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Voluntary but brief exposure to different cultures.

91
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What are Goffmans 5 types of segregation?

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Incapable harmless - orphanages
Ill but threat to society - MH hospitals
Not ill, threat to society
Occupation related - boarding schools
Retreat from world - monasteries
92
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How can psychiatry see culture?

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Explanatory
Pathoplastic
Diagnostic
Service instrument

93
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What is culture as an explanatory tool?

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Allows description of non-pathological behaviours in context of culture

94
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What is culture as a pathoplastic agent?

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Description of psychopathology that results from cultural practices.

95
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What is culture as a diagnostic factor?

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Allows culture-specific, unique diagnostic framework

96
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What is culture as a service instrument?

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Allows utilization of cultural knowledge in service delivery

97
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What is an idiom?

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Well-structured, codified way of expressing thoughts via language.
Cannot be translated as they lose meaning.

98
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What are idioms of distress in Psychiatry?

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Somatic symptoms that serve as a code for expressing ones mental distress in some cultures.

99
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Models of care in cultural psychiatry

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Ethnic minority - services for minorities only
Cultural consultation
Melting pot model
A hedge-your-bets approach

100
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What is the cultural consultation model?

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Specialized MDT which gives consultations to clinical teams and families - no direct patient care.

101
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What is the melting pot model?

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Institutional factors promoting inequality are addressed. Thus, mainstream services are enriched by responding to all cultural needs.

102
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What is a hedge-your-bets approach in cultural psychiatry?

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Both prescribed medication and ethnic, spiritual therapy may be best hope for securing adherence.

103
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What type of illness is amok?

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Dissociative

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Where is amok common?

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Malaysia, Laos, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico

105
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What happens in amok?

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Sullen period, then outburst of violence, return to premorbid state.

106
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What is ataque de nervios?

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Attack of distress - sudden shouting, crying, dissociation - leading to sense of being out of control. May have LOC/amnesia afterwards.
Related to acute stress.
Sense of heat arising from chest into head.

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Where is berdache common?

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North America

108
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What is berdache?

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Male who has assumed female gender role

109
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What is Bouffee delirante?

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Sudden outburst of agitated and aggressive behaviour, confusion.

110
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What is Bouffee delirante common?

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West Africa

Haiti

111
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What is brain fag?

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Difficulty concentrating, thinking, remembering.

112
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Where is brain fag seen?

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West Africa

113
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What is dhat?

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Anxiety and hypochondria relating to seminal discharge accompanied by feeling weak and exhausted.

114
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What is another name for dhat?

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Shenkui in China

115
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What is Frigophobia?

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Fear of feeling cold/wind due to yin-yang imbalance.

116
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What is Koro?

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Eoisode of sudden, intense anxiety that penis/vuvla/nipples will recede into body and possibly cause death.

117
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Where is Koro common?

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Malaysia

SE Asia

118
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Where is Latah common?

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Malaysia

SE Asia

119
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What is Latah?

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Hypersensitivity to sudden fright, with echopraxia, echolalia, command obedience and dissociative behaviour in middle-aged women

120
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What is mal de ojo?

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Mediterranean concept of evil eye affecting children with physical symptoms

121
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Where is Nerfiza/nevra common?

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Egypt
Greece
Central America

122
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What happens in Nerfiza?

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Chronic episodes of extreme sorrow/anxiety, inducing somatic complaints.

123
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Where does Piblokto occur?

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Arctic Eskimo communities

124
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What happens in Piblokto?

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Dissociative episode with excitement followed by seizure/coma lasting up to 12 hours.
May be withdrawn/amnesia afterwards.

125
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What is shinkeishitsu

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‘Nervous traits’ in Japanese.

Syndrome of obsessions, perfectionism

126
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What is susto?

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Attributed to a frightening event that causes soul to leave body resulting in unhappiness

127
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What is Tajin-kyofu-shou?

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Fear of losing good will of others due to imagined shortcomings of oneself.

128
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Where is Ufufuyane/amafufunyane seen?

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Kenya
South Africa
Bantu
Zulu

129
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What is Ufufuyane?

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Anxiety state attributed to effect of magical potions of spirit possessions.
Sobbing, paralysis, LOC, nightmares with sexual themes,

130
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What is Windigo?

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Intense craving for human flesh

131
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Where is Windigo seen?

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Algonquian Indian cultures

132
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What are Tseng’s different effects of culture on psychopathology?

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Pathogenic
Pathoselective
Pathoplastic
Pathoelaborating
Pathofacilitative
Pathoreactive
133
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What is pathoselective?

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Tendency to select certain culturally influenced reactions

134
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What is pathoplastic?

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Culture influences manifestations of MH illnesses such as delusions.

135
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What is pathoelaborating?

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Universal behavioural reactions that are selectively reinforced by a culture.

136
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What is pathofacilitative?

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Cultural beliefs affect frequency of onset by facilitating risk factors.

137
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What is pathoreactive?

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Culture affects treatment, stigma and outcome.

138
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Who coined the term anti-psychiatry and when?

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David Cooper

1960s

139
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Who proposed that mental disorders are learned abnormalities of behaviour?

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Eyseneck, 1968

140
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What is the hidden meaning model?

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Irrational behaviours deemed symptoms are meaningful for patient.

141
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Who coined descriptive psychopathology?

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Karl Jaspers

142
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What is explanatory psychopathology?

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Assumes causative factors based on theoretical constructs.

143
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What is descriptive psychopathology?

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Understanding human experience through description of what is observed.

144
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What are the components of descriptive psychopathology?

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Observation

Empathetic assessment of subjective experience - phenomenology

145
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What is ostensive in phenomenology?

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Illustrating a concept by clinical experience - defining by examples

146
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What is conventional in phenomenology?

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Defining a concept using conventional description such as legal definitions

147
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What is persuasive in phenomenology?

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Deliberate employment of a term to persuade users to employ it in a specific manner

148
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What is declarative in phenomenology?

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Formal explanation of significance of a word or its parts as used in dictionaries

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What is contextual in phenomenology?

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Defining a concept by context in which it occurs

150
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What is ‘essential’ in phenomenology?

A

Defining nature of an object

151
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What is the first attempt in coding ethics in medicine?

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Chakara

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What is Chakara’s principle of ethics?

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Friendship
Sympathy towards the sick
Interest in cases according to ones capabalities
No attachment to patient after recovery

153
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Name some higher order principles in ethics

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Deontology

Teleology

154
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What is Deontology?

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Centrality of rules in governing medical practice.

Rights and duties determine action - thus this si absolutism.

155
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In what way can duties be right under ethics?

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Prima facie - by their nature

Duty proper - by their cicumstances

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What is Teleology?

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Based on peoples interests, such as needs and desires. i.e. benefit vs harm.
The right action is the one that has the best foreseeable consequences.

157
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What are the forms of utilitarianism?

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Act utalitarianism - deals with a specific act

Rule utilitarianism - deals with general practices

158
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Who pioneered the prima facie/four pillars of ethics?

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Tom Beauchamp
James Childress
Raanon Cillon

159
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What is the interpretive model of medicine?

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Doctor will treat patient for a long time and will get to know the patient well and understand their circumstances - shared-decision making.

160
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What is the deliberative model in medicine>

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Doctor may act as counselor to patient - information is given alongside advice.

161
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What is direct ethics?

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To determine ethical behaviour we should look at the act

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What is indirect ethics?

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Ethics is about the actor - formation of character

163
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What is pragmatic ethics?

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Emphasis on success/reaching a goal with little concern on how this is achieved

164
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What is humanistic ethics?

A

Emphasis on what is best for society.

165
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What is the golden mean of Aristotle?

A

Ethical behaviour lies between extremes between excess and deficiency.

166
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What is the Nuremberg Code 1974?

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Code of ethics following Nuremberg trials post WWII re doctors experimenting on people.

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What does the Nuremberg code state?

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Human experimentation can only be carried out if:
there is voluntary consent
research is for common good of society
avoidance of unnecessary pain/suffering is guaranteed
subject has liberty to withdraw at any point
qualified researchers undertake research
scientists must terminate study if more harm is being caused than expected to subjects

168
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What is the Declaration of Geneva 1948?

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Reaffirmation of humanitarian aims of medicine by World Medical Association. Modification of Hippocratic oath.

169
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What was the intention of the Declaration of Geneva 1948?

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Highlight dedication of medical profession for cause of humanitarian goals.

170
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What is the Declaration of Helsinki 1964?

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Addresses clinical research, reflecting changes in medical practice from the term human experimentation used in Nuremberg code.

171
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What was the Tuskegee Syphilis study (1932-1972)

A

US public health service following up 600 low-income african american males, 400 of whom were infected with syphilis but were not informed. Furthermore, some were not offered the treatment of penicillin.

172
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What report was published as a result of the Tuskegee Syphilis study?

A

Belmont Report

173
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What does the Belmont Report say?

A

Respect for persons
Informed consent should be obtained via full information + ability to withdraw at any time
During research, beneficial effects must outweigh harm causes with systematic assessment of this carried out beforehand

174
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What was the Willowbrook School study (1963-1966)

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Mentally handicapped children were deliberately infected with hepatitis after parents gave consent for what they thought were vaccinations.

175
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What was the Jewish Chronic disease hospital study?

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Studies to develop information about the nature of human transplant rejection; chronically ill patients w/o cancer were injected unknowingly with cancerous human liver cells.

176
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What was the Tearoom Trade study?

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During the 1960s, Laud Humphries (sociologist) followed up men who had anonymous sex in public places by tracing their number plates after befriending them.

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