Wk 6 MH Flashcards
___% of adults (aged 16 +) in Great Britain reported moderate to severe depression
16
Attributions model of low mood/depression
Abrahamson 1978, internal, stable and global attributional style to make understanding of negative life experiences
Rumination model of low mood/depression
(dwelling)
“compulsively focused attention on the symptoms of ones distress, and on its possible causes and consequences opposed to its solution)
__% of adults (16 +) in Great Britain scored ≥3 on GAD-2. Indicating some form of anxiety was likely for them
16
285 students from the school of psychology and clinical language services at a UK university
Measured anxiety using GAD-2 - ___% sample had a score ≥3
(Jenkins et al., 2020
41.2
When can these feelings anxiety become a problem?
- long period of time
- distressing + uncontrollable
- Disrupts functioning
psychological theories of anxiety: “catastrophic appraisals”
People often overestimate threat and the concequence of threat (e.g: increased heart rate percieved as heart attack)
psych theory of anxiety: Attentional processes:
particularly selective attention to threat-related info
What is trauma?
Experience of negative life events
Distressing reaction to adverse life experiences that exceeds a person’s ability to cope, or integrate the emotions involved in these experiences
Approximately __% of the population has experienced a potentially traumatic event
70%
percentage of people who develop PTSD after experiencing trauma
7%
BODILY/PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES in experience trauma related difficulties?
- Hyper-arousal,
- feeling on edge/alert;
- pain,
- sweating,
- nausea,
- trembling etc
affect/emotional changes after trauma
intense emotions- shame, fear guilt, disgust, feeling emotionally numb or detached
cognitive changes after trauma
- Flashbacks,
- concentration difficulties,
- avoidance,
- dissociation.
- (re-experiencing)
Psychological theories of trauma. memory accounts:
to explain the re-experiencing features
- intense emotional distress + other cog reactions disrupt normal encoding memory processing
- Trauma memories stored in fragmented, decontextualised way,
- Rather than integrated, coherent recollections people will experience chaotic intrusive memories (including smells, emotions, physical sensations) that are vivid and easily triggered by contextual cues that are only loosely associated with trauma
