Week 19 Psychopathy I Flashcards
What is the relationship between anxiety and anxiety related disorders?
Anxiety is a negative mood state that can affect functioning if the patient gets consumed by it. Anxiety can be a good thing unless it affects functioning, if the patient gets consumed by it, where then it is considered a disorder.
What are the three different vulnerabilities for developing anxiety and related disorders?
Biological vulnerabilities refer to the specific and neurobiological factors that may predispose someone to develop an anxiety disorder.
Psychological vulnerabilities refer to the influences our early experiences have on how we view the world.
Specific vulnerabilities refer to how our experiences lead us to focus and channel our anxiety on specific objects or situations.
What are the diagnostic features of GAD?
Characterized by paranoia, directing focus on preparing for the worst, affecting functioning. Symptoms may include restlessness, irritability and muscle tension. It must last for at least 6 months to be classified.
What are the diagnostic features of Panic Disorder?
Intense anxiety and avoidance related to the panic attack for at least a month, causing significant distress or interference. This will result in interoceptive avoidance of cues that initiated the previous panic attack, related to agoraphobia.
What are the diagnostic features of agoraphobia?
A panic attack could bring about agoraphobia, but it can be developed on its own too. Agoraphobia is avoiding places or situations or enduring them while experiencing intense anxiety.
What are the diagnostic features of Specific Phobia?
The criterion for a phobia is that there must be an irrational fear associated with an object or situation that substantially interferes with someone’s ability to function.
What are the diagnostic features of social anxiety disorder?
This is a social phobia. This is the fear of social situations so much so that they avoid them entirely- the fear of social situations interfering with someone’s life.
What are the diagnostic features of posttraumatic stress disorder?
This is characterized by a form of paranoia formed from the traumatic event derived from an intense fear that the event may reoccur- not all traumatic events develop a disorder. This is linked to a panic disorder as they are hypervigilant of their surroundings. They are sensitive to internal (similar sensations to when the event occurred) and external cues (similar environment or sounds during the initial trauma) that serve as reminders of the traumatic event.
What are the diagnostic features of obsessive-compulsive disorder?
A person must experience obsessive and/or compulsive thoughts that seem irrational and nonsensical, but that keep coming into their mind. Compulsion is an attempt to ease obsessive thoughts, which must be repetitive and excessive, with an element of distress if the person cannot engage in the behavior.
What is thought-action fusion?
The idea that having the thought is as bad as acting on it.
What is interoceptive avoidance?
Avoidance of situations or activities that produce sensations of physical arousal like those occurring during a panic attack or intense fear response.
What was the criteria to distinguish between abnormality and normality?
If a behavior poses a threat to oneself or others or causes them so much pain and suffering that it interferes with daily functioning.
Differences among the three etiological theories of mental illness:
Supernatural theories are developed from beyond the visible universe.
Somatogenic is developed from the body.
Psychogenic is developed from psychological origins.
What is trephination?
The treatment of a psychological disorder by the drilling of a hole in the skull.
What is humourism?
The belief that an excess or deficiency of any of the four bodily fluids or humors- blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm- directly affected their health and temperament.
