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whatbehaviors/mood states might be managed using SSRIs |
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The four D's of Abnormality |
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orderof the scientific method |
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· Also, be able to describe what differentiates“normal” from “abnormal” |
SGRA |
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Ego |
WSGA |
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Id |
The libido emerges and drives impluses to seek immediate release |
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Superego |
Develops from the ego a little later childhood. |
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JFK affect on mental health |
WSGAS |
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Classical Conditioning: |
Conditioning fear to certain objects or situation |
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· Negative reinforcement |
reduction of anxiety |
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· Unconditioned Stimulus |
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· HPA-Axis |
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o Serotonin |
••Travels through many key areas of the brain, affecting thefunction of those areas••Implicated in depression, anxiety, aggression and impulsivity |
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Degradation |
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Norepinephrine |
••Produced by neurons in the brain stem••Cocaine and amphetamine, prolong the action of norepinephrineby slowing its reuptake process#ާp |
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Epinephrine |
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GABA |
••Inhibits the action of other neurotransmitters••Tranquilizing effect of some drugs is because they increasethe inhibitory activity of GABA |
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Dopamine |
••Found in areas of the brain associated with the experience ofreinforcements or rewards••Affected by substances (e.g. alcohol) and behaviors (e.g. sex)that are pleasurable |
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Systematic desensitization |
type of behavior therapy that attempts to reduce client anxiety through relaxation techniques and progressive exposure to feared stimul |
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Modeling |
process of learning behaviors by imitating others, especially authority figures or people like oneself |
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Flooding |
behavioral technique in which a client is intensively exposed to a feared object until the anxiety diminishes (also called impulsive therapy) |
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Applied Tension technique |
increases blood pressure and heart rate keeping people from fainting when confronted with the feared object |
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Biological treatment |
Benzodiazepines |
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Munchausen’s Syndrome |
Faking illness or symptom |
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Retrograde |
inability to remember info from past -can have both organic and psychogenic causes |
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Anterograde |
inablillity to form new memories to take in new information |
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Malingering- |
hen a person fakes a symptom or disorder avoid or gain something |
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selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor |
They work by blocking or delaying the re-absorption of serotonin - a neurotransmitter - by the original (presynaptic) nerve it was released from. This effect increases levels of serotonin within the synapse |
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Sensate Therapy |
Three phase process of getting over sexual dysfunction. Early phases- partners are instructed not to be concerned about or even attempt intercourse. Rather focus on the pleasure created by the exercises. (Master & Johnson) To help reduce anxiety and any concern about achieving orgasm. |
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**In general: When do Fetishes/idiosyncratic sexual preferences become “disorders”? |
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Cataplexy |
Sudden loss of muscle tone lasting under 2 minutes |
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What kind of medicine is use for narcalepsey? |
Stimulants Sodium oxybate selegiline Antidepressants |
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Narcolepsy with cataplexy |
Lacking cells in the hypothalamus that secrete the neurotransmitter hypocretin, which promotes wakefulness Narcolepsy without cataplexy; Low levels of hypocretin |
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Advanced sleep |
Persistent pattern of sleep onset and awakenings that are two or more hours early than desired |
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Delayed sleep |
phase Persistent pattern of delayed sleep onset and awakenings inability to go to sleep or wake up earlier if desired |
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Irregular Sleep |
Do not have a discernable sleep-wake rhythm |
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Involuntary hospitalization What are the criteria needed for justifying this course of action? |
Need for treatment Grave DisabilityDanger self or others |
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M’Naghten |
-At the time of the crime, the individual was affected by adisease of the mind to the extent that he or she did not know the nature of theact he or she was committing or did not know it was wrong |
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Irresistible impulse |
••At the time of the crime, the individual was driven by anirresistible impulse to perform the act or had a diminished capacity to resistperforming the actF&q |
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Durhan |
•Crime was a product of a mental disease or defectIa |
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Type A Personality |
Sense of time urgency -Easily aroused hostility -Competitive striving forachievement Risk factor for coronaryheart disease§Hostility component is mostsignificant Men are more likely to havethe Type A personality pattern and other risk factors |
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