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What is meant by social non-conformity?
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Failure to conform to social norms or the usual minimum standards for social conduct.
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Psychotic Disorders are...
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Severe mental disorder characterize by retreat from reality by hallucination, delusion and by social withdrawal.
Ex: Homeless person talking to themselves |
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What are general risk factors that contribute to a mental disorder?
What is the definition for metal disorder? |
Poverty, family social conditions
A significant impairment in psychological functioning. |
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder is...
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Irrational, anger against society
Ex: Timothy McFay was anti-social (uni bomber) |
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A person with an Organic Brain Disorder
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A mental emotional problem cause by brain diseases or injuries
Contracted by Virus Car Accident |
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Mood Disorder is...
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A severe psychological disorder,
retreat from reality by hallucination and social withdrawal Schizophrenia ex: It's A Beautiful Mind) |
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DSM IV (4)Stands for...
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Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Identify mental disorders select the best therapies to treat them. Guide & Ranking the category of the disorder |
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How do Humanist see mental illness?
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Roger believed that anxious individuals have build up an un-realistic mental images of themselves, which leave them vulnerable to contradictory information.
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Schizophrenia is...
Name Four Types of Schizophrenia? |
Psychosis characterized by delusions, hallucinations, empathy, and the split betwn. thought and emotion
Types: Incoherence, Stupor, Paranoid, Undifferentiated |
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Hallucinations are...
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Imaginary sensation such as seeing, hearing, smelling something that doesn't exist.
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Delusions are...
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A false belief held against all contrary evidence.
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What do major mood disorders appear to be?
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Emotional extremes, very moody, sudden mood changes
Feelings of failure, sinfulness, guilt, worthlessness and total despair Major depressive disorder: Bi-polar I & II |
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Anxiety Disorders are...
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Feeling of panic, disruptive, irrational fears, worries, distorted behaviors
2 Additional "Anxiety Disorders include: Post Traumatic Stress Disorders Acute Stress Disorder |
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Mood Disorder:
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Depression and mania,sad and hop less
Talk too loud and fast Have a rush of ideas, feelings that others think are unreasonable Also known as "Bi-Polar" |
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What is the behaviorist approach to mental illness?
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Learning principle to make constructive changes to ones behavior.
They can alter their behavior through lifestyle changes, heavy brain medication or conditioning. |
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What is Somatoform Disorder?
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Physical symptoms that mimic disease or injury for which there is no identifiable physical cause.
You feel physically sick, but your doctors says nothing is wrong with you You are Prue-occupied with thoughts about being sick |
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What is dissociative Disorder?
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Temporary amnesia, multiple personality, or depersonalization
You feel like you are a robot or a stranger to yourself Others tell you that you have done things that you don't remember doing. |
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What are the 3 major systems of mental illness?
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Exceptive anxiety (biting your finger nails)
Inter-personal relations: think your hair look band that u don't want to go out, don't want people to look at your hair, loss of control. |
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Chap. 13
What is Psycho Analysis? What is emotional attachment to the therapist by the patient called? |
Analysis of Transference
Treat your therapist like your mother or father |
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What happens in "Directive Therapy"
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Irrational thinking
Also happens in Cognitive Therapy |
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What is spontaneous remission?
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Patient improves just simply by being put on the waiting list to see a therapist.
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Who is the grandfather of Psychoanalysis?
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Freud
Ex: Say whatever comes to your mind Called "FREE ASSOCIATION" |
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What therapy focuses of "Free Will?"
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Existential Therapy
Focus is on: Death, freedom, isolation, meaningless |
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What is Psycho dynamic?
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Emphasizes internal conflicts and motives
Helps recognize and institutes change. |
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What is insight?
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Mental reorganization of a problem that causes the solution to seem self-evident.
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Behavioral Therapy is?
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Re-learning
Use of learning principles to make constructive changes in behavior. |
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Cognitive Therapy is?
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Methods to change maladaptive thoughts, beliefs, and feelings, give direction,
Rational Emotion Behavioral Therapy, Thought Stopping, Desensitization |
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Covert Sensitization
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No use of Drugs
Scared to drive so visualize yourself driving |
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Humanistic
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Carl Rogers
Therapist says "What I hear you saying..." Therapist empowers patient to solve their own power Gestalt: More confronted, role playing |
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Bio-psychological is...
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Depression
Meds (Lithium, Klonopin) |
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What is a Lobotomy?
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Severing the frontal lobe
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Robert Ellis
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Founder of Cognitive Therapy
Irrational & self defeating behavior, anticipatory anxiety |
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Abraham Maslow Rollo & Carl Rogers...
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Humanist Therapist
Devoted to help person to discuss their potential & how to apply psychological growth |
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Erico Jones practiced...
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Cognitive & Freudian
What kind of treatment goes where |
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Biblio-Therapy
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Self-Help (books,audio,etc...)
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What is cognitive dissonance?
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An uncomfortable clash betwn. self-image, thought, beliefs, attitudes or perceptions and ones behavior.
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Ethnocentrism is...
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Placing ones own group or race at the center. Tending to reject all other types but ones own.
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What is desensitization use for?
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Treatment of Phobia
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What happens when there is a diffusion of responsibility?
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Ask Professor for this answer
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What are Pro-social behaviors?
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Pro-social behavior refers to actions that are constructive, altruistic or helpful to others
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Social Psychology is ...
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Studies how people behave, think and feel in a social situation
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