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What is the difference between fear and anxiety

Anxiety is fear of the future. Fear is the present threat

Past & Present

Contributions to Anxiety

Social, behavioral, cognative, environmental

11 Types of anxiety disorders

Generalised Anxiety Disorder


Panic Disorder


Obsessive Compulsive Disorder


Agoroaphobia


Post Traumatic Stress Disorder


Social Axiety


Specific Phobia


Acute Stress Disorder


Subtance induced axiety disorder


Anxiety NOS disorder


Anxiety disorder due to a general medical condition

Specific phobia

Irrational fear of a specific object or situation that impairs daily functioning

Social Anxiety

The fear of being negatively percieved by others

Generlised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Intolerance of Uncertaintity


Poor problem orientation


Cognative avoidance


Posative beliefs about worry

What is emotional reasoning

Emotional reasoning is aproaching a situation based on your emotional stare in the present

Agoraphobia

The fear of being in open spaces one cannot escape from/ are unsafe

Obsession vs Compulsion

Obsession is the thought process compulsion is the behavior designed to supress the thought


I am likley to get robbed


Locking all the doors

Treatments of phobias

Extention learning


Exposure Therapy

Mood Disorder

A mood disorder is a maladaptive or abnormal mood

2 Major Mood Disorder

MANIA & DEPRESSION

Major Depressive Episode

Duration: At least two week of symptoms



Major Symptoms are: Change in appetite/weight, change in sleeping patterns, Feelings of worthlesness, suicidal ideation

MANIC EPISODE

Duration: longer than week



Symptoms: increased risk taking behaviour, delusions of granduer, elevated speech, decreased need for sleep

MANIC VS HYPOMANIC

Lasts at least four days

What are the two types of mood

Depressive & Manic

Prevelence in the sexes

Females are twice as likley to suffer from mood disorder

Recurrent Major Depressive Disorder

Two or more episodes, no history of manic episodes.

Causal Factors of unipolar depressive disorder

Biological eg. Chemistry/Heriditary


Biological eg. Chemistry/HeriditaryPsychological eg. Trauma/Stress


Biological eg. Chemistry/HeriditaryPsychological eg. Trauma/Stress



Psychological eg. Trauma/Stress

Bipolar Depression

Depression coupled with Manic/Hypermanic episodes

Cyclothymic Disorder

Less sever form of Bipolar disorder can progress into either Bipolar 1 or Bipolar 2

Bipolar 1

Includes at least one manic episode

Bipolar 2

Includes hypomanic episodes but is less sever than full manic episode

Manic vs Depressive

Depressive episodes are three times more likely than manic episodes

Age of onset

Young adult around 18-22

Mood Variation

Hysteria

Origanally thought to be pent up sexual energy in women

Somatic Symptom Disorder

Menifestation of physical/medical symtptomology without any medical reason

Dissociative Disorder

A break from normal functioning resulting in disruption of concoisness/identity/memory/perception

Symptoms of dissociative disorders

Periods of Amnesia


Depersonalisation


Time lapses


Mood swings


Unexplained changes in handwriting

Dissociative Memory Loss

Episodic & Autobiographical memories



Selective memory loss

Schitzophrenia


Psychosis - a significant loss of contact with reality

Who What When? Schitzophrenia

All types of individuals


Diverse symptoms


Usually late adolescent onset

DSM5 Criterion

2 x delusions; hallucinations; Disorganised speech; disorganised or catatonic behavior; negative symptoms (deminished emotional expression)



Impaired day to day function


Continuos disturbance


Schitzoaffective disorder


Depressive or bipolar

What are delusions

Erroneous beliefs


Fixed and firmly held despite evidence to the contrary


Disturbance in the content of thought

Hallucinations

Sensory experience


Seems real but occurs in absence of any external perceptual stimulas


Can occur in any sensory modality

Disorganized speech

Failure to make sense


Usualy conforms to semantics and syntax


Disturbance in form (not content) of thought

Disorganized Behavior

Impairment of goal directed activity


Occurs in daily functioning


Catatonia


Catatonia Stupor

Other Psychotic Disorders

Schizoaffective disorder


Schizophreniform disorder


Delusional disorder


Brief psychotic disorder


Shared psychotic disorder

Risk Factors

Genetic factors - first degree relatives of people with schizophrenia are ten times more likley to have the disorder

More Risk Factors

Prenatal exposure can put a person at risk - pre natal infections, Rhesus incompatibility, early nutritional deficiency.

Biology

Brain areas in schizophrenia is abnormal


Deceased brain volume


Enlarged ventricles


Frontal lobe dysfunction


Reduced volume of thalamus


Abnormalities in tenporal lobe

More Biology

Dopamine and Glutamate transmitters



Cytoarchitecture - Overall organization may be comprimised

Neurocognition

Defecits in attentional and working memory


Eye tracking dysfunction

Stress Model

Schizoaffective Disorder

Uninterupted period of illness during which there is a major mood episode.


Delusions or halucinations for 2 or more weeks in the absence of a major mood episode over lifetime


Symptoms for major mood episode are present for the majority of the illness


Not attirbutable to the effects of substance

Prevelence of Schizoaffective Disorder

About a third as common as schizophrenia

Treatment types

Pharmacological


Psychosocial therapy

Eating disorders

Anerexia navosa


Bulemia Navosa

Common factors in eating disorder

Intense fear of being obese


Intense desire to loose weight

Anorexia Nervosa

Restriction of energy intake below what is healthy for that person


Obsession with being skinny


Disturbance in the way a persons views thier weight

Bullemia Nervosa

Recurrent episodes of binge eating accompanied by purging or fasting

Two types of Bulemia Nervosa

Purging - vomoting, taking laxatives, taking duiretics



Non purging - fasting or extreme excorsice

Ago of onset and prevelance for eating disorders

Anerexia nervosa is more common in 15-19 year olds


Bullemia more likley in 20-24 year olds


Females are 3 times more likley to be diagnosed than males

Medical complications of eating disorders

Heart arythmia


Renal failure


Kidney Damage

Other complications and outcomes of eating disorders

Suicide attempts high in anorexia


Bullemia more likley to have succsessful treatment than anorexia

Comorbidity with Eating disorders

Clinical eating disorder

What us the definition of substance abuce?

The excessive use of substance that ipacts on daily functioning

Indicators of substance abuse

Can cause legal problems


Hazardouse situations


Missing deadlines

Considerations of substance abuce

Who, what, why, how, when

What are psycoactive drugs?

Substances that effect the central nervouse system

Differnce between Potancy and Toxicity

Potancy = how much of the drug


Toxicicity = capacity for damage

Two types of acute toxicity

Behaviorual


Physiological

Three processes of substance abuse

Drug tolerance


Physical dependance


Psychological dependance

What is Alcohohol Use Disorder

The depdance on alcocohol that causes interference with daily functioning

Ocurrances of alcohol abuse

Violent or innapropriate behavior

What pathological gamblicol

Gambling that intereferea with daily functioning

4 imoortant cognative emotional factors gambling

Rewad and punishment


Higher salience leading to craving


Impulsivity


Impaired decision making

Childhood and Adolescent disorders

Dislexia, ODD,ADHD,autism

Developmental psychopathology

The study of illnesses that can effect the mind during development

Psychological challanges in children

Less self understanding


Lack of identity

What is the most common type of disorder in children

Intellectual

What is ADHD

Attention Defecit Hyperactivity Disorder.



Inability tonfocus and contain impulsive behaviour

Treatment options for ADHD

Medications


Behavioral therapy


Family therapy

What Oppositional Defience Disorder

Persistant defience of the rules


Persistant direct opposition to authority figure

Three subtypes of ODD

Irritible mood


Defient behavior


Vindictive

4 causes of ODD

Family patterns


Peer relationships


Biological factors


Pathology

Treatment types for Odd abd Conduct disorder

Behavioral Therapy

Class of Nuerdevelopment disorder

Pervasive

What is Autism spectrum disorder

Defecit of speech


Self stimulation


Social defecits

Causes of ASD

Precise cayse unknown

Treatment

Behavioral

Nuerological Characteristic with adhd and autism

Frontal lobe


Executive functioning

Types of learning disorder

Dislexia


What is dyslexia

Word recognition and reading comprehension

Possible cause of dyslexia

Central nervouse syndrome

What is an intellectual disability

Defecit in :



Comprehension;reasoning;planning;abstract

Causal factors of intellectual disability

Biological

Organic retardation syndromes

Down syndrome

Neurocognative Disorders

Disorders with the brain

What are the clinical signs of brain damage

Loss of memory


Speech impairment

Difference between diffuse and focal brain damage

Diffuse: spread out


Focal: concentrated in one area

4 states of waking

Wakefulness


Delerium


Stupor


Coma

Treatment and outcome of delerium

Medications


Evironmental manipulation


Family support

Treatment and outcome of delerium

Medications


Evironmental manipulation


Family support

Major Nuerocognative disorders

Dimentia


Alzehmers


Parkinsons


Huntingings


Brain Damage

Major characteristics of Neurogcognatibe disorders

Cognative decline

Parkinsons

Incontrollable tremors


Loss dopamine

Alzheimers

Decaying grey matter


Memory loss


Dissasociation


Social withdrawal


Uncharistic behavior


Cognative decline


Three potential outcomes of head injury

Amnesia retro grade or anterograde


Personality change


The Big Five of personality

O = Open to experience


C= Conscientiousness


E = Extroversion


A= Agreeable


N= Nueroticism

Cluster A personality disorders


Odd and Eccentric

Paraniod personilty disorder


Schitzoid personailty disorder


Schitzotypal personality disorder

Cluster B personailty disorders


Dramatic Emotional Erratic

Borderline personility disorder


Antisocial personailty disorder


Histrionic personality disorder