Abnormal

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person avoids anxiety by not allowing painful or dangerous to become conscious

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repression

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person simply refuses to acknowledge external source of anxiety

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denial

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person attributes own unacceptable impulses, motives, or desires to other individuals

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projection

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person creates a socially acceptable reason for an action that actually reflects unacceptable motives

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rationalization

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person adopts behavior that is exact opposite of impulses he or she is afraid to acknowledge

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reaction formation

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person displaces hostility away from a dangerous object and onto a safer substitute

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displacement

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person represses emotional reactions in favor of overly logical response to problem

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intellectualization

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person retreats from an upsetting conflict to an early developmental stage at which no one is expected to behave maturely or responsibly

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regressison

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person expresses sexual and aggressive energy in ways that are unacceptable to society

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sublimation

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therapist that uses all models

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eclectic therapist

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patient leads conversation, therapist asks open ended questions, say anything whether seems important or not

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Free association

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abnormal = biological malfunction
brain anatomy, brain chemistry, genetics

treatment = biological intervention
ECT ,psychotropic meds, psycho surgery

strengths?
weakness?

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Biological model

Strengths: physical evidence, explains actual diseases

Weakness: potentially disrupts bodies natural disposition, down-plays cognition / behavior

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Abnormality: unconscious conflicts, involved in Freud's theory with ID Ego Superego

Treatment: Psychoanalysis, hypnosis

Strength:
Weakness:

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Psycho dynamic/analytic model

Strength: Shows evidence of unconscious mind

Weakness: primarily from case studies

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Abnormality: Lack of self-acceptance, inauthentic living, refusing to accept personal responsibility

Treatment:
Self-actualization - Maslow,
client centered therapy - Carl Rogers,
Gestalt therapy- Fritz,

existential therapy - get clients to accept responsibility for lives and live with greater meaning and values

Strengths
Weakness

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Humanistic - existential model

Strengths: Group support affective

Weakness: Lack of evidence

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Abnormality: Family or social stress

Treatment: group family systems therapy couples community intervention

Strengths:
Weakness:

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Sociocultural

Strengths: individual not held personally responsible

Weakness: lack of scientific evidence

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Abnormality: maladaptive thinking, faulty assumptions attitudes illogical

Treatment: taught new ways of thinking, awareness, re framing

Aaron Beck famous therapist

Strength:
Weakness:

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Cognitive

Strength: Self control of therapy, often makes most sense

Weakness: cant work for many situations, takes patient dedication need emotionally motivation, doesn't take into account things out of patients control

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Abnormality: Maladaptive learning
Operant / Classical Conditioning

Treatment: Identify problem behaviors, replace with more adaptive behaviors

systematic desensitization

Strengths? Weakness?

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Behavioral

Strengths: See results, within human control

Weakness: Doesn't work for everyone

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This type of treatment allows individuals to receive treatment in a familiar surrounding to make them as comfortable as possible.

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Community mental health treatment

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What are the 4 D's that are used to determine whether someone shows signs of abnormal behavior?

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Deviance
Dysfunction
Distress
Danger

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Deviant =

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Different, extreme, unusual

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Distress =

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Unpleasant, upsetting

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One is considered dysfunctional when?

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Their behavior interferes with daily activities.

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What type of danger would someone demonstrating abnormal behavior involve?

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Danger to themselves or danger to others

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Eccentricity =

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An unusual pattern of behavior which others have no right to interfere with.

(non-criminal, just strange)

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Somatogenic Perspective

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The idea that abnormal behavior has physical causes.

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Psychogenic perspective

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Cause of abnormal functioning is psychological.

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De-institutionalization was primarily caused by the influence of the counter culture and _________ medications that showed promising results.

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psychotropic

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Today:

What percentage of people with severe psychological problems receive treatment of any kind?

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40%

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Will Ben go to class next tuesday?

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no

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Treatment?

Arrangement by which an individual directly pays a psychotherapist (hint hint) for counseling services.

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Private psychotherapy

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Program in which insurance companies determine key issues such as which therapist it's clients may choose, cost of sessions, and # of sessions.

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Managed Care Program

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Psychoanalysis:

Instinctual needs drives, urges =

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ID

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Repression is an example of what?

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Ego defense mechanism

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Guides us to know when we can or cannot express instinctual urges:

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Ego

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Feeling good or bad about upholding values learned. Another word for a conscience

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Superego

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Humanistic approach to guide clients to self acceptance by challenging or even frustrating the client.

Hint: Fritz

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Gestalt therapy

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3 possible sources of biological abnormalities are?

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Genetics, Evolution, Viral Infections

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This type of therapy encourages people to accept responsibility for their lives / problems.

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Existential therapy

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Type of treatment that involves a face to face encounter with a clinician to make assessments.

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Clinical interview

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A set of questions and observations that systematically evaluate clients awareness, orientation in to time/space, attention span, memory, judgment, insight, thought process, mood, appearance.

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Mental status exam

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_______ tests require clients to interpret vague stimuli such as inkblots, ambiguous pictures, or follow open ended instructions such as to draw a person.

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Projective Test

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Another name for inkblot test?

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Rorschach

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People who take this test are asked to make up a story of what is happening based on black and white pictures of individuals in vague situations.

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Thematic Apperception Test

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I wish I were an ____ ____ wiener.

This is a terrible example of what type of test?

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Sentence completion test

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Commonly used to assess the functionality of children; assumptions are made about the details, shapes, and backgrounds of this test.

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Drawing

(Draw-a-person test)

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DSM IV Classification

Axis 1:
2:
3:
4:
5:

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1: Anxiety problems
2: Mood problems
3: Medical conditions
4: Environmental problems
5: Rating (#) of persons functioning