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Unit 12 (Abnormal Behaivour) Unit 13 (Treatment Of) Flashcards

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ADHD

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Disorder marked at around age 7 by having one or more of 3 key symptoms
Extreme in attention
Hyperactivity
Impulsivity

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Psychological disorders

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Deviant, distressful, dysfunctional patterns of thoughts feelings and behaivours.

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Medical model

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Concept that disorders have physical causes can be diagnosed treated and in most cases can be cured

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Anxiety disorders

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Disorders characterized by distressing and persistent anxiety

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Generalized anxiety disorders

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Anxiety disorder in which a person is constantly tense and apprehensive

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Panic disorder

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Anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable episodes of intense dread, terror and physical pain

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Phobia

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Anxiety disorder marked by a persistent irrational fear of a specific object activity or situation

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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Anxiety disorder defined by unwanted repetitive thoughts and actions

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Post traumatic growth

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Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with a challenging crisis

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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Anxiety disorder defined by haunting memories, nightmares and insomnia which lingers for about a month after the trauma

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Somatoform disorder

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Disorder in which the symptoms take a bodily form without apparent physical cause

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Conversion disorder

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Bodily disorder where a person experiences very specific physical symptoms with no physiological basis

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Hypochondriasis

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Bodily disorder where a person interprets normal physical sensations of a disease

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Dissociative disorders

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The conclusions awareness become separated from previous memories

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DID

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Rare dissociative disorder where a person exhibits 2 or more changing personalities

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Mood disorders

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Defined by emotional extremes

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Somatoform disorders

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Disorder which takes a physical form without physical cause

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Conversion disorder

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Rare disorder where a person has very specific physical symptoms with no physiological basis

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Hypochondriasis

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Bodily disorder where someone interprets normal physical sensations as harmful/ a disease

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Dissociative disorders

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Conscious awareness becomes dissociated from previous memories thoughts and feelings

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Multiple personality disorder

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person exhibits 2 or more distinct and changing personalities

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Mood disorders

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defined by emotional extremes

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Mania

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Marked by a hyperactive wildly optimistic state

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Bipolar disorder

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Person alternates between depression and mania

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Major depressive disorder

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Due to a lack of a addiction will experience worthlessness lack of interest for pleasure etc

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Schizophrenia

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group of disorders defined by delusions disturbia and inappropriate emotions and actions

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Delusions

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False beliefs and a alternate view on reality

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Personality disorders

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Defined by strict and long behavior patterns that impair social functions

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Antisocial personality disorder

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The person shows a lack of conscious for their wrong doings, can be aggressive

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CHAPTER 13

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Psychotherapy

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Consists of interactions between therapist and someone wanting to overcome psychological difficulties

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Psychoanalysis

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(Sigmund Freud) belief that free associations, dreams, resistance and interactions allow for self insight

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Resistance

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The blocking from consciousness of anxiety material

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Interpretation

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The supposed dream meaning, resistances, and behaviors to promote insight

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Transference

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Patients transfer to analyst of emotions linked with other relationships

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Psychodynamic therapy

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Views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences to promote self insight

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Insight therapies

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Aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing clients awareness of hidden motives and defenses

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Client centered therapy

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(Carl Rogers) Therapist uses active listening in a genuine accepting environment to help clients growth

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Active listening

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(Carl Rogers) Empathetic listening where the listener echoes restates and clarifies

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Unconditional positive regard

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(Carl Rogers) Caring accepting attitude believed to to help clients to develop self awareness and self acceptance

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Behavior therapy

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applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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Counterconditioning

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Procedure using classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that usually trigger unwanted bahaviour

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Exposure therapies

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Systematic desensitization is used to treat anxieties by exposing people to things they fear and avoid

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Systematic desensitization

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Associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety stimuli. Treating phobias

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Virtual reality exposure therapy

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Anxiety treatment which gradually exposes to simulations of their greatest fears

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Aversive conditioning

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Type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior

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Token economy

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Operant conditioning procedure where people earn a prize for exhibiting a desired behavior

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Cognitive therapy

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Teaches people new more adaptive ways of thinking and acting based on the idea that events and emotions connect

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Cognitive behavioral theory

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Integrative therapy combining cognitive therapy with behavioral therapy

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Family therapy

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Treats family as a system. Views individuals unwanted behavior on family

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Regression towards the mean

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Tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) towards the average

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Meta analysis

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Statistically combining results of many different studies

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Evidence based practice

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Decision making that combines best available research with clinical expertise and patients characteristics

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Biomedical therapy

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Prescribed medication or procedures to directly target nervous system

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Psychopharmacology

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Study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

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Antipsychotic drugs

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Used to treat schiz and other sever thought disorders

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Tardive dyskinesia

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Involuntary movement of facial muscles, tongue and limbs. Possible side effect of antipsychotic drugs

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Antianxiety drugs

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Used to control anxiety and agitation

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Antidepressant drugs

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Treat depression and also anxiety

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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Only for severely depressed patients where a brief electric current is sent through the brain

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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Simulation (rTMS)

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Application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to brain. Stimulates or suppresses brain activity

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Psychosurgery

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Removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to alter behavior

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Lobotomy

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Procedure once used to calm unstable or violent patients by cutting nerves connecting the frontal lobes to emotion controlled centers of the inner brain

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Resilience

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Personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and trauma

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