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62 Cards in this Set
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What are the different types of professions in mental health?
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Psychologist
Psychiatrist Social Workers Psychiatric Nurses Counselors Marital and Family Therapists |
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What are the 4 ways to define abnormal behavior?
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Personal distress
Statistical rarity Harmful dysfunction DSM-IV |
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What is epidemiology
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The scientific study, of distribution of, disorders
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What is incidence?
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The number of new cases within a define period of time
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What is prevalence?
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The number of total cases, both past and active, within a defined period of time
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What is co-morbidity?
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The presence of two mental disorders at the same time (Depression and Anxiety for example)
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What was deinstitutionalization?
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People were release with the use of psychiatric medications. People were supposed to get their medications in a community center setting.
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What is culture bound syndrome?
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Locality specific patterns of aberrant behavior and troubling experiences that are specific to their culture
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What is a paradigm?
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A set of shared assumptions that includes both the substance of a theory and beliefs about how scientists should collect data and test the theory.
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What are the three major problems with paradigms?
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Behavior is multi-determined, not simplistic
Mental disorders are related to multiple paradigms To adhere to one paradigm is being to narrow |
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What is a diathesis?
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a predisposition, genetic for example
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What is a soma?
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the cell body of a neuron
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What is synapse?
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the space between neurons
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What is a genotpye?
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a person's actual genetic structure
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What is a phenotype?
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an expression of a genotype
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What is a autosomal gene?
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if behavior is dominate or receptive by this gene
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What is a polygenic gene?
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behavior caused by multiple genes
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What does OCEAN stand for
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Openness to experience
Conscientiousness Extroversion Agreeableness Neuroticism |
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What is In Vivo desensitization?
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When a person is exposed to a feared stimulus and gradually gets closer until no longer afraid
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What are two kinds of Third Wave therapies?
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
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What are five examples of therapies that can harm?
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Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing
Scared Straight Re-birthing Recovered Memory DARE program |
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What were the first 7 attempts at defining abnormal behavior in 1880?
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Mania
Meleancholia Monomania Paresis Dementia Dipsomania Epilepsy |
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What is Axis I?
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Clinical disorders
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What is Axis II?
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Personality disorders
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What is Axis III?
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General medical conditions
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What is Axis IV?
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Psychosocial and environmental issues
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What is Axis V?
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GAF
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Below what value scored on the GAF does a person have to receive to be experiencing serious symptoms
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50 or less
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What is reliability?
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Inter-reater reliability, Kappa for example
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What is validity?
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concurrent and predictive
etiological |
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What are three problems with co-morbidity?
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Within-category heterogeneity
Frequency of Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) diagnoses Distinction between axises, axis I and II for example |
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What are two kinds of structured interviews?
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SCID
SIDP-IV |
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What are three kinds of personality tests?
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MMPI-2 or MMPI-RF
CPI MCMI |
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What are three types of self-report inventories?
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Beck Depression Inventories
POMS MSI |
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What are two kinds of projective tests?
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Rorshach
TAT |
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What are three kinds of Biological assessments?
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EEG
ECG MRI, PETm SPECT, fMRI |
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Are projective tests considered valid currently in the psychological community?
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no
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Can biological forms of assessment solely be used to make a mental health diagnosis?
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no
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What is emotion?
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a state of arousal defined by subjective feeling states
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What is affect?
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a pattern of observable behavior associated with emotion
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What is mood?
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a pervasive and sustained emotional state
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What are the four major mood episodes?
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major depressive episode
manic episode mixed episode hypomanic episode |
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What are the two types of depressive disorders?
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major depressive disorder
dysthymic disorder |
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What are the three categories of bipolar disorder?
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bipolar I
bipolar II cyclotymic |
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What is bipolar I?
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Occurrence of one or more manic episodes or mixed episodes, often having one or more major depressive episodes
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what is bipolar II?
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One or more major depressive episode, but never a manic or mixed episode
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What is cylothymic?
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Chronic fluctuating mood disturbance involving numerous hypomanic episodes and numerous periods of dysthymia
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What are four kinds of mood disorders due to medical reasons?
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Parkinsons
Huntington's Chorea Multiple Sclerosis Alzheimer's |
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What are seven kinds of specifiers?
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Mild, Moderate, Severe
With or without psychotic features In partial remission; in full remission With catatonic features With melancholic features (a lack of pleasure) Post-partum onset (within 4 weeks of birth) Seasonal pattern |
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What are the demographic factors that suggest an increased risk of suicide?
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male
recent loss never married older age |
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What are the symptoms that suggest an increased risk of suicide?
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severe depression
anxiety hopelessness psychosis with command hallucinations |
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what are the kinds of history that suggest an increased risk of suicide?
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history of suicide attempts
family history active substance abuse |
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What are the kinds of suicidal thinking that suggest an increased risk of suicide?
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presence of a specific plan
means available to carry out plan absences of factors that would keep the person from completing plan rehearsal of plan |
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What is the biological paradigm?
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Looks for underlying biological causes to explain abnormal behavior; for example, neurotransmitters.
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What is the treatment in the biological paradigm?
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medical means
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What is the humanistic paradigm?
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Looking a people as having: free will, humans are inherently good, unconditional positive regard,
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What is the treatment in the humanistic paradigm?
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Therapy is accepting responsibility for your own life, strengthen your emotional awareness
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What is the psycodynamic paradigm?
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Id, Ego, Superego. Also includes the unconscious mind and defense mechanisms
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What is the treatment in the psycodynamic paradigm?
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Therapy is psychoanalytic, accessing the unconscious; free association for example
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What is the cognitive behavioral paradigm?
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Classical and operant conditioning
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What is the treatment in the cognitive behavioral paradigm?
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Cognitive Behavioral therapy is changing thought processes and behaviors
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What are the six kinds of psychological assessment?
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Mental status exams
Structured interviews Observation Personality test and self repost invent Projective tests Psychophsioloigcal assessment |
