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What is abnormality
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Abnormal is behavior that is maladaptive to oneself or interferes with ones ability to reach goals or adapt to life or is maladaptive to society
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Mental disorder is not
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A culturally accepted response to an even or voluntary efforts to express individuality or political and religious beliefs
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What is the NCS
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National Co-morbidity Study = studies the prevalence of mental and other disorders. Key finding was that most severe disorders are concentrated within a group that had 3 co morbid lifetime disorders
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What is the global disease burden? What are the two major measures? What are some important findings from it
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It is the measure of how disease affects a person by how most of their life is taken away. Years Life Lost and Years Life Disabled.
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Who gets treatment
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Only 20-33% of people get treatment. The other function for the most part, though not well
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What is deinstitutionalization
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CHECK
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How do we improve help
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CHECK
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Mental Disorders depiction in children’s media
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From children’s films 2000-2001 finding were 14 disordered people, majority single white males, had good qualities but 2/3 were violent, 2/3 feared by others, 4 got treatment 1 with benefit
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Mental disorders depiction in newspapers
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Follow a predetermined script. Crazy person does something dangerous. 26% involved crime/violence. 2 negative stories for every positive and only 7% included the person’s perspective. Overall tendencies, overwhelmingly negative, ignored unless they are dramatic, person is reduced to their disorder
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Mental disorders depiction in Newsweek
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Disorders are really bad, emphasis on the dramatic, unconnected striking factoids, misleading information, disorders not just from the mind, and an emphasis on “new” treatments that are usually not new and/or unproven
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Mental disorders in prime time TV
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In a two-week study 37% of mentally disordered people were violent criminals and were 10 times more violent than other characters. Were 10 times more violent in 10 weeks than in 1 year
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Mental disorders in Films
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Broken up into 3 main categories and 1 extra, rebellious free spirit, homicidal maniac, mad scientists, and uptight people
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General media tendencies
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There is a focus on the dramatic, ignore the usual aspects of disorders, disorder is a part of the narrative, caused by an event and/or cured by an even, just “the way people are” no way of curing or helping them
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What are the 4 main paradigms
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biological
psychoanalytic behavioral cognitive |
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What is the hammer paradigm
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I have a hammer so everything is a nail or useless
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What is animism
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old paradigm that spirits within cause abnormality. Believes that cures must ride the spirits aka drill holes in ones head
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What are some key aspects of biological paradigm
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the root of mental disorder is the brain's structures and neurochemistry and genetics.
very popular at the moment and most psychologists agree with its findings. overall it is well supported biological reductionism = reduce problems to their smallest parts |
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What are some key findings from genetic studies
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LOOK UP
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What are some key aspects to the psychoanalytic paradigm
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Developed by freud
internal mental conflict is the key to mental disorder. Inbalances between the id, ego, and superego difficult to study because revolves heavily around the unconscious. |
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What are the keys to the behavioral paradigm
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it was an alternative to the biological and grew out of lab research.
it was originally weary of cognitive events though modern psych has combined the two |
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What is conditioning and what are the main types
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BOOK
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What is the cognitive paradigm
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it was spawned from behaviorism and accounts for unlearned things like irrational fears. basis in the way people process
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What is integrated systems
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It is the bio-psycho-social model.
Allows for multiple levels of analysis and multiple pathways |
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What is equifinality
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Equifinality is the tendency for early events to lead to similar outcomes
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What is multifinality
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Multifinality is the fact that multiple events lead to outcomes
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what is Diathesis stress model
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implies multifinity and equfinality. think of triangle graph.
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what is reciprocal causation
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cause leads to effect and adds to the cause. EX isolation and depression
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what diagram can we make to explain
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upside down triangle with unknown X at the bottom
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Why can't we do experiments to test causality
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most of the time it is unethical. They do have many studies that are longitudinal.
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What are the two key things to know about treatment
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no treatment is universal
some disorders have no treatment |
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what are the types of therapy
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client centered
psychoanalytic behavioral cognitive |
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What are the common elements of psychotherapy
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intense personal and confiding
"the myth" personally relevant stories that include explanations for cause and solution |
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What are the major aspects of client centered therapy
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Developed by carl rogers
empshasis on genuinouss, accurate empathy, and unconditional support building blocks of modern therapy |
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Main ethics issues
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confidentialiy
dual roles competence science based public statements |
