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Cluster C; Avoidant Personality Disorder (descriptions, prevalance etc) |
A; key characteristics - pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings on inadequacy and low self esteem prevalance; 1.4% - 5.2% |
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Q; What are some causes of this disorder? |
A; develop to interaction between childhood environment and temperament (cycle) |
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Q; What treatments are used for Avoidant Personality Disorders? |
A; CBT - social skills in groups, behavioural rehearsal |
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Q; Cluster C - Dependent Personality Disorder |
A; key characteristics - pervasive excessive need to be taken care of
- clinging prevalance; 0.4% - 0.6% |
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Q; What is the behavioral perspective to DPD |
a; Behavioural perspective; family environment caused dependent behaviours |
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Q; What is the cognitive perspective to DPD? |
A; cognitive perspective; development of distorted beliefs that cause dependency |
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Q; Cluster C; OCD personality disorder |
A; preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control prevalence; 2.1% - 7.9% |
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Q; What are the treatments of OCD? |
A; cbt |
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Q; What is Civil Commitment? |
A; Legal system exercises significant influence over mental health system - right to treatment - right to refuse treatment - right to treatment in the least |
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Q; Which 2 types of authority permit the government to take action against people? |
A; 1) police power 2) parens patraie ('state as a parent') |
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What are mental health acts? |
Detail when a person can be legally detained in a mental health ward |
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What are the 3 criteria that need to be met for the provincial legislation to permit mental health diagnosis w/ court case? |
1) person has a "mental disorder" 2) person is dangerous to themself or others 3) person is in need of treatment |
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Do the diagnostic criteria vary across jurisdictions? |
Yes; - functional definitions specify the effect of the illness on the person's functioning - traditional definitions - legal definitions are more flexible |
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What is another example that a person that go to other than a psychiatric institution? |
Compulsory Community Treatment (CCT) -prevent relapse + provide care - not permitted unless previous impatient treatment |
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What are the 2 trends that have had an influence in the # of people committed? |
1) increase in # of homeless people 2) deinstitutionalization |
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Why is this process (criminal commitment) even held? |
- person is accused of committing a crime and may not have been responsible for it |
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What were the 4 variations of Mental Insanity as a defense in the USA? |
1) Volitional Test - unable to control oneself even through the difference between right and wrong 2) Durham Rule (1954) |
