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When a pt. presents with a specific problem or a set of problems (main c/o)
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Presenting problem
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a description of behaviors, thoughts, feelings that make up a specific disorder
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clinical description
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name 4 functions of clinical description that help specify disorder. what makes a disorder from normal behavior or from other disorders?
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1. prevalence
2. incidence 3. sex ratio 4. age of onset |
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A description about how disorders follow a an individual pattern?
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course
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how many people in the population as a whole have the disorder? (TODAY)
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prevalence
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Statistics on how many new cases occur during a given period of time such as a year?
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incidence
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What % if males and females have the disorder?
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sex ratio
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At what age did it begin?
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age of onset
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Disorders that last a long time?
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chronic course
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name a d/o that takes a chronic course?
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schizophrenia
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are clients that are likely to recover within a few months then only to suffer a recurrence of the disorder` May repeat thru out a Pt's life.
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episodic course
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an ex of episodic disorder?
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mood disorders
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d/o will improve without treatment in a relatively short period of time?
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time-limited course
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d/o that begin suddenly
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acute onset
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d/o that gradually develops over an extended period of time?
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insidious onset
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What is the most important part of the clinical description?
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so that we can know what to expect in the future and how to best deal with the problem.
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What is the anticipated course of a disorder called?
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prognosis is good
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what is the study of behavior over time?
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developmental psychology
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study of changes in abnormal behavior?
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developmental psychopathology
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the study of origins, has to do with why a d/o begins to included biological, psychological, and social dimensions? (WHERE DID IT COME FROM)
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Etiology
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They saw mental illness as a punishment by the gods or evil spirit possession and trepanation was used as a remedy. (THEORY) Treatment was done by priests who used herbs and ritual and payer to cure.
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Prior to 500 BC
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the heart was believed to be the seat of mental and emotional life?
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Egyptian Idea
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a hole was cut in the skull to let the evil spirits out?
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trephination
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the father of medicine
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Hippocrates (460-377BC)
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believed that mental d/o , as all illnesses, were due to natural causes. He described many do's and developed a taxonomy or classification system.
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Hippocrates
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Hysteria
also develop phobias, pp psychoses, mania, melancholia, and phrenitis. |
due to wandering uterus
Hippocrates's} |
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phrenitis means
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brain fever
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Hippocrates believed
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1. environment influenced abnormal behavior
2. family was responsible for the care of the mentally ill person |
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Hippocrates's treatment was
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rest, bath proper diets, no etoh,exercise, and no SEX
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GALEN
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BODY humor theory
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What is Galen noted for:
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1. built hospital in Rome
2. encyclopedia of medical knowledge 3. showed arties contained blood not air 4. body humor theory of abd. behavior |
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SANGUINE
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blood optimistic, energetic
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CHOLERIC
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yellow bile angry
aggressive |
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phlegmatic
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sluggish/apathetic
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melancholy
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black bile, sad
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what did the early middle ages believe?
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Clovis the king of franks
was converted to chrisisitny (496) they believe that progress was measured in terms of spiritual terms and the mentally ill were demon process. witchcraft and mysticism prevailed. |
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What is insanity ?
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was a natural phenomenon caused by mental or emotional stress, and that it was curable.
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what was recognized as illness?
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mental depression and anxiety
but sx's of despair and lethargy ere often identified by the church as sin. treatments: rest, sleep, healthy and happy environment. |
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what did they believe in the
middle ages? |
monks card for the mentally ill
physicians relieve pain and not cure. |
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what did they do in the end of the middle ages?
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mass madness due to bubonic plague.
(tarantism,lycanthropy, flagellant movement, dancing mania, and exorcisms became popular and with hunts |
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dancing like spider movements based on the idea that individual was possed by spiders
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tarantism
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behving like packs of wolves
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lycanthropy
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a band of people who had a master and who wandered from city to city flogging themselves with leather straps.
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flagellant movement
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groups of people who danced for hours in a circle calling the names of demons who were tormenting them
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dancing mania
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the renaissance period?
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change was slow
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founder of modern psychopathology
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johann weyer he describe d/o's like hippocrates and spent time talking to and observing the mentally ill.
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when were asylums developed?
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1547 in bethlehem hospital in london, england
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what are the four bodily fluids?
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blood
black bile yellow bile phlegm |
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bromides? END OF 19TH AND BEGINNING OF 20TH CENTR=URYT
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class of sedating drugs
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NEUROLEPTICS
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hallc. delusions
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