Week 12 Flashcards
Define psychopathology
Psychopathology refers to problematic patterns of thought, feeling or behaviour that lead to disrupted functioning and cause distress to that person or others. Varies between cultures, all cultures have some concept of mental illness.
Define Mental Health
a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being.
Define Mental Illness
a condition that causes serious disorder in a person’s behaviour or thinking
Define Mental Disorder
There are many different mental disorders, with different presentations. They are generally characterized by a combination of abnormal thoughts, perceptions, emotions, behaviour and relationships with others.
Mental disorders include: depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other psychoses, dementia, and developmental disorders including autism.
Describe the psychodynamic perspective
Distinguished three classes of psychopathology: Neuroses, personality disorders and psychoses.
Describe the cognitive-behavioural perspective
Combines cognitive (dysfunctional attitudes, beliefs and cognitive processes) with behavioural (combined emotional responses) components.
Describe the biological perspective
Seeks the roots of psychopathology in terms of brain circuitry
Describe the systems perspective
views psychopathy through the context of social groups
Describe the evolutionary perspective
Suggests psychopathy reflects genetic variation and adaptive mechanisms gone awry.
Describe the descriptive approach to diagnosis
It aims to be atheoretical which means it is not biased toward any one perspective on psychopathology.
Describe key principles and techniques of the psychodynamic therapeutic approach
the goal of therapy is to gain insight into unconscious conflicts that induce anxiety
Describe key principles and techniques of cognitive-behavioural therapeutic approach
use classical conditioning techniques to focus on associations between stimuli and emotions
Describe key principles and techniques of the humanistic therapeutic approach
focus on the ways individuals consciously experience self, relationships and the world
Describe key principles and techniques of group and family therapies therapeutic approach
multiple groups work together to meet therapeutic goals.
Describe biological treatments
Biological treatments differ from interpersonal approaches. They arise from the view that psychological disorders reflect the pathology of the brain. only administered by physicians.
