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Mental Disorder |
Behavior or emotional state - causes suffering, self destructive, impairs ability to get along with others, endangers others |
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DSM |
Diagnostics and Stats Manual of Mental Disorders - Categorizes mental disorders by medical model |
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Medical Model |
Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment; Abnormal behavior is because of a physical problem |
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Professionals who object to DSM |
Thomas Szasz Dr David Rosenhan |
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What did Dr David Rosenhan write |
People sane in insane places; Over diagnosed medical disorders |
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Two types of disorders |
Anxiety, Mood, Personality, Dissociative, Psychotic |
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General Anxiety |
6 months+ of excessive worrying, Physically tense, can be caused by nothing |
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What are the general symptoms of anxiety |
Intense, uncomfortable, dreaded feeling |
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Specific Fears/Phobias |
Persistent unreasonable fear, cued by situation. Person recognizes the fear is unreasonable |
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Panic Attacks |
Mimic heart attack, severe situation in phobia |
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PTSD |
Post Traumatic Stress - Recurrence, Intense Psychological distress Not present before trauma |
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What causes people not to have PTSD |
Larger hippocampus |
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OCD |
Obsessive compulsive - re occurring thought which action is taken on |
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Subtype of OCD |
Hoarders; Cant get rid of anything |
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GABA |
Gamma Amino Butryic Acid - Beta blockers, slows heart rate |
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What does cognitive therapy do |
Attacks your thoughts |
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Rational Emotive Therapy (Researcher and Meaning) |
Albert Ellis, attack irrational ideas; stay in the moment |
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Mood Disorders |
Disturbance in mood; sadness |
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Depression |
Intense sadness for long period of time |
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Medicine for depression |
Trucyclic Drugs, MAO Inhibitors, SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) |
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Trycyclic Drugs |
Increase serotonin and nor-epinephrine; heighten mood. |
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MAO Inhibitors |
Block an enzyme that breaks down serotonin and nor-epinephrine. |
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SSRI |
Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors - Improve mood, stop re-uptake to leave more serotonin; selective because only effects serotonin |
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Bipolar |
High and Low moods (Manic/Depressive) |
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Who wrote about psychopaths? |
Hervey Cleckley - "The Mask of Sanity" |
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Correct term of Psychopaths |
Anti Social Personality Disorder - Lifelong patterns of antisocial behavior; No guilt/shame |
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Mood Disorder Treatments |
Electroconvulsive Treatment, Psychosurgery, Deep brain intervention |
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Electroconvulsive Treatment |
Small doses of electricity over a period of time, increasing serotonin and nor-epinephrine. Short term memory loss. |
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Psychosurgery |
Used to be lobotomy, now small parts of the brain are split. |
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Deep Brain Intervention |
Electrodes are attached to brain and emit electric signals to stimulate brain |
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Narcissistic |
Self importance/absorption |
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Dissassociative Disorders |
Split in Consciousness; memory loss, identity confusion |
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Dissociative Amnesia |
Inability to recall information; usually traumatic |
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Fugue State |
Unexpected trip from home; individual doesn't realize they are in a fugue state until they are out of it |
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Dissociative Identity Disorder |
presence of two distinct identities that take control of individual |
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Dissociative Disorder treatment |
Acquire major trust through non judge mental, genuine therapy |
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Who researched schizophrenia? |
Eugene Bleuler |
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Schizophrenia |
Out of touch with reality; Hallucination; Delusion; Too much dopamine - too much sensation, Cognitively don't think straight. Clanging - repeat last word in every sentence |
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Treatment of psychotic disorders |
anti psychotic |
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Social conventions, explicit laws, and implicit cultural standards are examples of? |
A. norms |
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Each person has _________ social role(s). |
C. three |
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Culture is defined as a program of shared _____________ that govern the behavior of people in a society as well as a set of shared values and beliefs. |
B. rules of norms |
