Psych Final Exam

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Criteria of abnormal behavior

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-harmful/disturbing
-atypical
-distrurbing
-maladaptive
-unjustifiable

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The 6 categories of disorders

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1) Anxiety Disorders
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Panic disorder
Phobia
Obsessive complusive
2)Somatoform Disorders-physical health problems that have psychological rather than physical causes
Somatization-chronic aches, pains, tiredness, dangerous measures to seek relief
Hypochondriasis-milder form, preoccupied with health
Conversion-blindness,deafness, paralysis, seizures (symptoms often not medically possible)
Pain Disorders-similiar but pain is primary symptom-patients not that upset by condition because disorder provides psychologial benefit
3) Dissociaive-Conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts and feelings
Idenity-multi personalities
Fugue-flight from one's home and identity (amnesia)
Amnesia-selective memory loss often brought on my extreme stress
4)Mood Disorders
Major Depressive Disorder
BiPolar
5)Schizophrenia-a severse psychotic loss of contact with reality
6)Personality-inflexible and enduring behavior patterns and personalities that impair social function

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Factors that cause/contribute to disorders

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1)Personality-develop in childhood, onset in adolesence/early adulthood
2)Mood-stressful experiences, negative explanatory style, depressed mood, cognitive and behavioral changes
3)Schizophrenia
Biological
Neurotransmitters-overactiity of certain dopamine receptors in the brain
Brain damage and function-ventricles (or cavaties) in brain are enlarged and filled with fluid
Genetics
Psychosocial
Environment-stress
Family Communication-high levels of criticism, hostility, contradicting
messages
4)Anxiety
Learning perspective (stimulus, reinforcement, observation)
Biological perspective (natural selection, genes,physiology)

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Clinical Psychology

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Field of psych focusing on assessment, diagnosis and treatment of abnormal behavior (guided by the boulder model)

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Boulder Model

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-basis of clinical psych
-intergration of science and practice
-ultimate goal of clinical utility

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Psychiatrists vs. Psychologists

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Psychiatrists
-have an MD
-prescribe drugs
-endorse medical model
Psychologist
-Have an PhD
-Do not prescribve drugs
-endorse biopsychosocial model

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Medical vs. Bio-Psycho Model

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Medical
-endorsed by psychiatrists
-perspective that abnormal behavior reflects a type of physical or mental illness/disease
Bio-Psycho
-endorsed by psychologists
-biological( evolution, indivisual genes, brain structure and chemistry)
-Social(Roles, expectations, definition of normality and disorder)
-Psychological (stress, trauma, learned helplessness, mood-related perceptions and memories)

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Psychotherapy

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A planned, emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained, socially sanctioned healer and sufferer

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Therapies

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1)Psychoanalysis-bring repressed memories into conscious awareness
2)Humanistic-problems occur when a person's growth potential is blocked. responsible for solving our own problems
3)Client Centered-explores thoughts and feelings to obtain insights into causes of behavior. 4 qualities of communication (empathy, unconditioned positive regard, genuineness, active listening)
4)Behavior-applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
5)Cognitive-teaches ppl new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting
6)Biological-based on medical model.
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Drug Therapy (Antidepressent, Antipsychotic and Antianxiety)
7)Eclectric-combo of all approaches. most common