Psychology Chapter 15

Front 1

Pinel and Dix

Back 1

Shamed society into treating mental patients better

Created the moral treatment movement

Front 2

Chlorpromazic

Back 2

Drug for mental health issues

Front 3

Statistical abnormality

Back 3

Can NOT provide the sole basis for defining mental disorders

Front 4

Maladaptive mental disorders

Back 4

1. Cause a person distress

2. Impair daily function

3. Cause them or others harm

But... distress can come from many things

Front 5

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders

Back 5

Provides details of 350+ disorders

Includes;

1. Number and types of symptoms that define each disorder

2. Causes of each disorder

3. Details about typically prognosis (expected progression of symptoms)

Front 6

Problems with the DSM

Back 6

1. Different therapist generate different Diagnoses for the same disease

2. Mental order often defined by cultures

3. Labeling someone with a disorder might make their problems worst

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Cluster A personality disorders

Back 7

Unusual and problematic behaviour

Front 8

Cluster B

Back 8

Unpredictable and wild emotional reactions

Front 9

Cluster C

Back 9

Highly anxious and inhibited behaviour patterns

Front 10

Wild card personality disordere

Back 10

Any NoT cluster A,B or C

Front 11

Generalized anxiety disorder

Back 11

People who react with intense fear to normal/daily tasks/stressors

Front 12

Panic disorder

Back 12

Anxiety not constant, but occurs in extreme, unpredictable burst of fear and dread called panic attacks

Front 13

Agoraphobia

Back 13

When a person fear having a public panic attack and therefore avoids public places

Specific phobias

Front 14

Social phobias

Back 14

Chronic concerns over being judge negatively by others and constant fear of being publically humiliated

Front 15

Obsessive compulsive disorders

Back 15

Irrational and persistent thoughts

Irresistible urge to engage in repetitive behaviours.

Respond to treatment unlike personality disorders