Week 1 Flashcards
Psychological disorder results from
Psychological dysfunction
Personal distress
Potential for harm to self or others
Violation of social norms
Psychological dysfunction
Breakdown in emotional, cognitive, interpersonal or behavioural functioning
Biomarkers
Something we can find using biological measures to diagnose a psych disorder with accuracy
Still none found meeting clinical use criteria
Diathesis stress model
How biological, psychological and environmental factors interact to produce psych disorders
Diathesis: factor that distal,y increases risk for a disorder
Stress: environmental events that trigger emergence of a disorder
Neurosis
Psych disorders without a physiological explanation in the past
Kraepelin’s 3 major diagnosis groups
Dementia praecox (schizophrenia)
Manic-depressive insanity (BD)
Paranoia
Freudians
Diagnoses based on psychosexual conflict
Adlerian
Aggression as the central cause of psych disorders
Jungian
Characterising the clash of psychological archetypes with the subconscious mind
DSM developments
1 focus on psychoanalysis
2 not widely used by clinicians, neuroses and psychotic reactions were focus
3 revolutionised reliability, focused on subjective distress, moved back to Kraeplin model
4 expanded criteria
5 TR added prolonged grief disorder
Dimensional diagnostic systems
Alternative to diagnostic categories where a dimension is an axis of variability in psychological disorders and people may sit anywhere on that axis
HiTOP- hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology system
3 waves of CBT
1 behavioural learning and conditioning
2 focus on cognitive distortions, corrective maladaptive schemas
3 focus on life goals and values rather than eliminating symptoms
