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54 Cards in this Set
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Biological Treatments/Therapies
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Drug Therapies
ECT Psychosurgery (rTMS) |
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Drug Therapies
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Antipsychotic Drugs
Antidepressant Drugs Antianxiety Drugs Lithium |
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Antipsychotic Drugs
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*believed to work by affecting dopamine receptors
*lots of side effects *reduce symptoms of psychosis(loss of reality testing, hallucinations, delusions) ex) Therazine |
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Antidepressant Drugs
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*reduce symptoms of depression (dadness, loss of appetite, sleep disturbances)
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Antianxiety Drugs
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reduce symptoms of anxiety
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Lithium
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*reduce symptoms of mania
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ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy)
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originally for schizophrenia
found out NOT effective for schizo, but works for depression *causes brain seizure for about a minutes |
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Psychosurgery
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not common, labotamy
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rTMS repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulaton
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uses magnets to stimulate targeted parts of the brain
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Psychological Therapies for Mental Disorders
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*Psychodynamic therapies
Humanistic therapy Behavior therpies Cognitive Therapies |
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Psychodynamic
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help to gain insight into unconscious thoughts.
*theraputic alliance *working through counter transference *transference *resistance *free association |
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Humanistic Therapy
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helps explore their own values and patients and fufill their potential more fully by providing a worm and supportive relaionship
*client-centered therapy *unconditional positive regard *reflection |
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Behavior Therapies
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behavioral assessment
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Cognitive therapies
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change maladaptive thought patterns
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Somatoform Disorders
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group of disorders where people experience significant physical symptoms for which there is no apparent organic cause (can’t be documented)
*subjective experience of many physical symptoms, with no organic cause |
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Psychosomatic Disorders
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actual physical illness present and psychological factors seem to be contributing to the illness
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Malingering
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Deliberate faking of physical symptoms to avoid an unpleasant situation, such as military duty
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Factitious Disorders (Munch-Hausen’s Syndrome):
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Deliberate Faking of physical illness to gain medical attention
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Factitious disorder by proxy
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parents fakes or created illness in their children in order to gain attention for themselves
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Five types of Somatoform Disorders
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1.Converson
2.Somatization 3.Pain 4.Hypochondriasis 5.Body Dysmorphic |
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Conversion Disorder
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*loss of functioning in a part of the body for psychological rather than the physical reasons
*children can have symptoms from things that have happened to close loved ones *Most dramatic type of somatoform disorder |
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La-belle indifference
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people become completely unconcerned about the loss of functioning they are experiencing
*common during both world wars for dealing with traumatic events |
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Glove anesthesia
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people loose all feeling in one hand, Freud found they regained feeling when they recalled painful feelings
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Somatization Disorders
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history of complaints about physical symptoms, affecting many different areas of the body, for which medical attention has been sought but that appear to have no physical cause.
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Diagnostic Criteria for Somatization Disorder
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o A history of many physical complaints over a period of several years, for which the person seeks treatment
o Symptoms in each of the following areas must occur at some time during the course of the disorder Pain symptoms in at least four areas of the body At least 2 gastrointestinal symptoms other than pain (nausea) At least one sexual symptom At least one apparently neurological symptom (paralysis) o The symptom or deficit cannot be fully explained by a medical condition, the effect of drugs. |
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Pain Disorder
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people who only complain of chronic pain
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Hypochondriasis
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chronic worry that one has a physical disease in the absence of evidence that one does; frequent seeking of medical attention
*more likely to see IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION |
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder
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excessive preoccupation with a part of the body the person believes is defective
*could be related to obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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Dissociative Disorders
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extreme experiences in which aspects of people identities split apart
*: DID, Dissociative fugue, Dissociative amnesia, Depersonalization disorder |
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Dissociative Fugue
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The person moves away and assumes a new identity, with amnesia for the previous identity. There is no switching among personalities, as there is in DID.
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Dissociative Amnesia
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The person loses memory for important personal facts, including personal identity, with no apparent organic cause
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Organic amnesia
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caused by a brain injury resulting from disease, drugs, accidents, or surgery
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Anterograde amnesia
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involved often in organic amnesia which involves inability to remember new information
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Psychogenic amnesia
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absence of any brain injury or disease and is thought to have psychological causes
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Retrograde amnesia
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inability to remember information from the past; can have organic and psychogenic causes; often only for personal information
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Depersonalized Disorder
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There are frequent episodes in which the individual feels detached form his or her mental state of body. The person does not develop new identities or have amnesia for these episodes
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Repressed memories
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memories of childhood abuse that eventually resurface in psychotherapy
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Bi-polar disorder
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manic depression
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Mania
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energy and enthusiasm for everything, fizzing over with ideas, talking and thinking so fast that her friends could not keep up with her
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Depression
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energy and enthusiasm were gone, and she was slow to think, talk, and move.
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Unipolar Depression
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experiencing depression without mania that is present in bipolar disorder
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Major depression
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experience either depressed mood or loss of interest in usual activities, plus at least four other symptoms of depression, chronically for at least two weeks
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Dysthymic Disorder
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less severe/ more chronic
*Experiencing depressed mood plus two other symptoms of depression for at least two years, without a two month laps in that time period |
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Suicide
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the end result of the complex interaction of social, psychological, and biological forces
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Four types of suicide
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death seekers, death initiators, death ignorers, and death darers
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Death seeker
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clearly want to take life, often write a will, buy a gun, give away possessions
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Death Initiator
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believe they are hasting in inevitable death, many people with severe illnesses fall in this category
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Death Ignorers
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intend to end life, but don’t believe this is the end of their existence; religious groups, suicide bombers
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Death darers
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take actions that greatly increase their chances of death, but do not guarantee it. May want attention or to make someone else feel guilty more than they want to die.
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subintentional deaths
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acts in which people indirectly contribute to their own death
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Social Perspectives on Suicide
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*economic harship
*serious illness *loss or abuse *Durkheim's theory *Suicide Contagion |
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Psychological Theories of Suicide
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*Psychodynamic- extreme expression of anger toward love on that hurt person
*Mental Disorder *Impulsivity *Cognitive- hopelessness and dichotomous thinking increase the risk of suicide. |
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Biological Theories of suicide
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*genetic theory
*neurotransmitter theory(seratonin) |
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Euthanasia
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mercy killing, assisted patient suicide
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