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22 Cards in this Set
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Functions of the Brain
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~Monitor changes in the External World
~Monitor the composition of body fluids ~Regulate contractions of the skeletal muscles ~Regulate the internal organs ~Initiate and regulate the basic drives: hunger, thirst, sex, aggressive self protection ~Mediate conscious sensation ~Store and retrieve memories ~Regulate mood (affect) and emotions ~Think and perform intellectual functions ~Regulate the sleep cycle ~Produce and interpret language ~Process visual and auditory data |
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Monoamine transmitters
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norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, histamine
Destructive enzyme: monoamine oxidase (MAO) |
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Effects of Dopamine and association with mental health
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Fine muscle movement, integration of emotions and thoughts, decision making, stimulates hypothalamus to release hormones (sex, thyroid, adrenal)
Decrease: Parkinson's, Depression Increase: Schizophrenia, Mania |
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Effects of Norepinephrine (NE) and association with mental health
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Level in brain affects mood, stimulates sympathetic ANS (fight or flight)
Decrease: Depression Increase: Mania, Anxiety, Schizophrenia |
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Effects of serotonin (5-HT) and association with mental health
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role in sleep regulation, hunger, mood, and pain perception. role in aggression and sexual behavior.
Decrease: Depression Increase Anxiety states |
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Effects of histamine and association with mental health
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Involved in alertness, inflammatory response, stimulates gastric secretion
Decrease: Depression, sedation, weight gain |
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Effects of Acetylcholine [cholinergic (ACh)] and association with mental health
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Plays a role in learning, memory, regulates mood: mania, sexual aggression. Affects sexual and aggressive behavior.Stimulates parasympathetic ANS.
Decrease: Alzheimer's, Huntington's chorea, Parkinson's. Increase: Depression |
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Caplan's Four Phases of Crisis:
Phase One |
Phase 1
Conflict or problem that threatens the self-concept. Increased anxiety stimulates the use of problem solving techniques and defense mechanisms |
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Caplan's Four Phases of Crisis:
Phase Two |
Usual defensive response fails and threat persists. Anxiety rises and produces extreme discomfort. Individual functioning becomes disorganized. Trial and error attempts at solving the problem.
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Caplan's Four Phases of Crisis:
Phase Three |
Trial and error fails. Anxiety escalates to severe and panic levels. Automatic relief behaviors such as withdrawal and flight. May compromise needs or redefine situation to reach an acceptable solution.
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Caplan's Four Phases of Crisis:
Phase Four |
Problem not solved and coping skills ineffective. Overwhelmed by anxiety, leads to personality disorganization, confusion, violence, or suicidal behavior.
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Treatment focus:
Internal Experience |
Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
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Treatment focus:
Interpersonal relationships and social supports |
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
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Treatment focus:
Thoughts and cognitions |
Cognitive psychotherapy
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Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development
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Oral(0-1yr):
Anal(1-3yr) Phallic, Oedipal, (3-6yr) Latency (6-12yr) Genital (12yr and beyond) |
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Describe Freud's Psychosexual Stage of Development:
Oral (0-1yr) |
Satisfaction: sucking. Conflict: weaning Task:beginning of ego
development. Desired Outcome: trust in environment Knows needs can be met Fixated Trait: passivity, gullibility, dependence. Sarcasm, orally focused habits, ie smoking. |
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Describe Freud's Psychosexual Stage of Development:
Anal (1-3yr) |
Satisfaction: expulsion and retention of feces. Conflict: Toilet training. Task: ability to delay immediate gratification. Desired Outcome: Control over impulse. Fixated Trait: Anal retentive: stingy, OCD, or anal expulsive: messy, destructive.
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Describe Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development:
Phallic (oedipal) (3-6 yr) |
Satisfaction: Genitals (masturbation)
Conflict: Oedipus/Electra Task: Sexual ID with parent of same sex, beginning of superego development. Desired outcome: ID with parent of same sex. Fixated: Difficulty with sexual Identity and authority figures. |
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Describe Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development:
Latency (6-12 yr) |
Satisfaction: - Conflict: - Task: growth of ego functions (ability to care about others outside home) Desired Outcome: Development of skills needed to cope with the environment. Fixation: sense of inferiority,unable to identify with others.
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Describe Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development:
Genital (12yr and beyond) |
Satisfaction: intercourse. Conflict: - Task: development of satisfying relationships. Desired Outcome: creativity and pleasure in work and life. Fixation: Inability to become emotionally and financially dependent. Inability to form satisfying relationships.
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
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1. Physiologic
2. Safety and Security 3. Love and Belonging 4. Self Esteem 5. Self Actualization |
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First Gen Anti-Psychotics
D2 blockers: phenothiazines, thioxanthenes, butyrophenones |
Anti psychotic effect
Extra-Pyramidal Side effects Increased prolactin, amenorrhea, male gynecomastia, inability to ejaculate. Orthostatic Hypotension |