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What are four criteria needed for diagnosing mental disorders?
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1. Suffering
2. Disability 3. Antisocial 4. Bizarre Behavior |
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When are mental problems "normal"?
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When they are reactions to conditions outside the person (example: poverty)
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What are five anxiety disorders?
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1. Genaralized Anxiety
2. Panic 3. Phobia 4. Post Traumatic Stress 5. Obsessive Compulsive |
3P - G - O
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What are obsessions & compulsions & what is obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD)?
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Disorder with endlessly repeated thought(obsession) and actions (compulsion)
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What is the difference between a hypochondriac and a patient with conversion disorder(Formerly Hysteria)?
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Hypochondriacs have exaggerated worry about their health, conversion disorder patients may have diasbling symptoms, but are are indifferent and don't complain because there is a payoff or advantage to their symptoms.
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What is the cognitive theory of depression?
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Pessimistic thoughts (over-generalizing the bad) cause bad moods.
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What are pessimistic cognitive distortions that cause depression?
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The explanatory style that sees misfortune as permanent, global, and your fault.
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What is Bipolar Mood disorder?
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Extreme mood swings with episodes of mania and depression, formely maniac depressive illness.
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What is mania?
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Bizarrely elavated mood.
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What is schizophrenia?
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Psychotic disorder with symptoms including hallucinations, delusion, & disorganized thinking.
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What are delusions?
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Symptoms of bizarre beliefs (examp: persecution by aliens)
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What are hallucinations?
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Symptoms of bizarre sensations (examp: hearing voices)
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What is a personality disorders?
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Personailty patterns causing maladjustment.
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What are the personality disorders?
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Examples include dependent, obsessive compulsive, borderline, and also antisocial personalities.
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What is the antisocial or psychopathic personality?
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Person lacks a conscience (superego), often deliquent with conduct against the rules of civil sociery.
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What is insanity?
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Legal term for not competent to know right from wrong.
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Court System
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What is psychoanlysis?
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Sigmund Freud's Technique of talk therapy.
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Free association?
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Say whatever comes to mind!
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transference?
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Do I remind you of your father?
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What is systematic desensitization and what is it used for?
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Treatment of phobia with relaztion, while visualizing progressively more frightening images (anxiety hierarchy).
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What technique does it employ?
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1. Practive deep relaxation
2. Construct anxiety hiearchy 3. Imagine threatening scenes (in hierachy) while relaxed? |
Systematic Desensitization
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What is aversion therapy?
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A behavior therapy which associates painful stimulus (exap: shock) with a bad habit.
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Shock Therapy
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What is cognitive therapy?
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Therapy which confronts distorted thinking and ideas which cause disturbance.
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What is Rational Emotive behavior therapy (REBT)?
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Albert Ellis's Cogntive pyschoterapy for confronting and siputing irrational beliefs that cause disturbance.
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What is the perspective of existential humanistice therapy?
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They advocate courage, choice, and commitment to goals (hardiness).
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3C
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Empathy?
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Feeling with (listening with emotional undertanding).
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What is person-centered therapy? (client centered)
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non-directive talk therapy, devised by Carl Rogers.
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Unconditional positive regard?
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total acceptance, without conditions of worth.
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reflective listening?
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restating clients thoughts & feelings (like a mirror)
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What is drug therapy and how did it revolutionize the treatment of mental patients since the 1950's.
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Uses of medicine to treat mental inllness helped bring on desinstitutionalization.
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Which category of drugs is used with psychotics?
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Antipsychotics (Examp: Phenothiazines)
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For what condition are mood stablizers prescribed.
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For Mania (bipolar disorder) to prevent mood swings.
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When is electroconvulsive shock therapy used?
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as last resort for severe depression
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What is a lobotomy?
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Old (obsolete) surgical procedures to treat agitated patients by cutting nerves in frontal lobes.
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What emotion is linked to heart disease?
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Hostility in "type A individuals"
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