Week 9 Feeding and Eating Disorders, Substance-Related Disorders & Personality Disorders Flashcards
Anorexia Nervosa
An eating disorder in which the individual starves themselves, exercises excessively, or eliminates food in other ways (such as vomiting) until they are at least 15% below their ideal body weight
Bulimia Nervosa
Characterised by a binge and purge syndrome
Conduct Disorder
Characterised by persistent violation of societal norms and the rights of others
What are substance-related disorders?
Characterised by continued use of a substance (such as alcohol or cocaine) that negatively affects psychological and social functioning
What is alcohol dependence?
The abuse of alcohol
What is Borderline Personality Disorder
Marked by extremely unstable interpersonal relationships, dramatic mood swings, and unstable sense of identity, manipulation and impulsive behaviour
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Marked by irresponsible and socially disruptive behaviour in a variety of areas
What is a Clinical Psychologist?
A health care professional that delivers treatment to patients suffering a mental illness or disorder
What is the scientist-practitional model?
Adopted by Australian Universities to teach psychology
What are Multidisciplinary teams?
Commonly used in community health-facilities and draw together professionals from a range of specialities to carry out tasks
What is Therapeutic Alliance?
A patient has to feel comfortable with the therapist in order to speak about emotionally significant experiences
What is Therapeutic Alliance?
A patient has to feel comfortable with the therapist in order to speak about emotionally significant experiences
What is Free Association?
A therapeutic technique for exploring associational networks and unconscious processes involved in symptom formation. Think bloch tests
Name a central element of psychodynamic technique
Interpretation of conflicts and defences where the therapist helps the client understand their experience in a new light
Name a kind of interpretation used in psychodynamic therapy
Resistance
What is transference?
The process whereby people experience similar thoughts, feelings, fears, wishes and conflicts in new relationships that they did in past relationships
What was the first kind of psychotherapy?
Psychoanalysis
What is psychodynamic psychotherapy?
Where a patient and therapist will sit face to face
What is cognitive behavioural therapy?
A method of therapy derived from behaviourist and cognitive approaches to learning
What is behavioural analysis?
Examination of the stimuli or thoughts that are associated with a symptom
What is systematic desensitisation?
A technique of cognitive behavioural therapy where the patient gradually confronts a phobic stimulus mentally while in a state that inhibits anxiety
What are exposure techniques?
Presents patients with with the phobic stimulus in real life, rather than having them imagine it
What is flooding?
Exposure to a phobic stimulus all at once instead of gradually
What is graded exposure?
Gradual exposure to the phobic stimulus
What is virtual reality exposure therapy?
Patients are exposed to virtual images of the feared stimulus
What is response prevention?
Preventing the patient from producing responses that allow avoidance of the feared stimulus
What is post traumatic growth?
Refers to the way in which survivors of trauma may experience positive psychological changes as result of the trauma
What is Participatory modelling?
The therapist models the behaviour and gradually incudes the patient to participate in it
What is skills training?
Involves teaching the behaviours necessary to accomplish relevant goals
What is mindfullness?
Defined as directing one’s attention to the present moment with acceptance, and without judgement
What is the focus of cognitive therapy?
Changing dysfunctional cognitions presumed to underlie psychological disorders
What is the ABC theory of psychopathology?
A: Activating conditions
B: Belief conditions
C: Emotional consequences
What is the rational-emotive behaviour therapy?
Proposed by Ellis, attempts to address the belief systems that mediate between activating conditions and maladaptive emotional reactions
What is the aim of Becks cognitive therapy?
Targets cognitive distortions
What is the aim of humanistic therapies?
To help people get in touch with their feelings and true self
How is group therapy usually conducted?
5-10 people will meet with a therapist on a regular basis, usually once a week for two hours
What is a self help group?
Usually not guided by a professional and often has many more than the 5-10 participants in group therapy
What is a genogram?
A map of a family over three or four generations
What are Benzodiazepines
A form of anxiolitics medication which can be used to treat anxiety
