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11 Cards in this Set
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psychological disorders stereotypes
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neurotic, crazy, uncurable (not true, most get better), violent and dangerous (only small percentage), and behave in bizarre ways (true only w/ small percentage)
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historical perspective
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- people have always appeared to gave disorders, it didn't just occur randomly
- early on people thought disorders were the result of evil spirits - during rennaisance, people thought psychological disorders could be treatd by drawing blood out - only in the last 60 years have drugs been developed |
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people's view of disorders today
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- most think of disorders in the medical model
- usefullness of psychiatric diagnoses - neuroces/melancholia |
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critics of mental disorder medical model
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- labeling theorists
- once someone recieves diagnosis other peope who know them form a label about them |
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Rosenhan's famous study
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- usually not long term
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tough part about psychological disorders
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- when do normal behaviors become abnormal
- forgetting -> alzeimers? - double-checking -> OCD? - emotional outbursts -> mood disorder? - high-energy child -> ADHD? |
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when is it a mental disorder?
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criterion:
1. statistical deviance 2. cultural deviance 3. emotional distress normal: 1. common 2. acceptable 3. low abnormal 1. rare 2. unnacceptable 3. high (adaptive, disfunction, maladaptive) |
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diagnosing an illness
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- categorize mental disorders w/ DSM-IV
- 5 axes or sections |
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treating psychological disorders
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types of therapy
- insight - behavioral: classical an operant conditioning - pharmacotherapy: drugs (found by accident), lithium -> skitzophrenia - music/art therapy - labotamy: severing the brain- taking a small nie up though the eye and severe right and legt hemisphere (serious side-effects... not a cure, 50's and 60's) |
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shock-therapy
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still used today but only as last resort (still some severe side-effects)
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who provides these treatments?
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- clinical or counseling psychologists w/ a graduate degree
- psyhiatrists (medical school + 2 more years) - drugs |
