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Abnormal Psychology
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Away from the norm.
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Objective VS Subjective
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Physical Illness - Easy to Diagnose (Objective).
Mental Illness - Tough to Diagnose (Subjective). |
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Abnormal Categories
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Cultural Relativism: Standards.
Unusualness: Statistical Deviation. Discomfort: Emotional Distress. Mental Illness: Diagnostic Label. Maladaptive: Harmful Behavior. Legal Definition: Insane (courts only). Tell right vs wrong, control over behavior. |
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Supernatural Model
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Middle ages, 12-15th century.
Mental Illness result of evil deeds and sins (punishment) or bad luck. Caused by: evil spirits, devil, witchcraft, moon. |
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Biological Model
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Renaissance, 16-18th century.
Mental Illness result of internal malfunction of body. Caused by: disease, balancing positive and negative forces, basic humors of body. |
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Psychological Model
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18th century.
Mental Illness is a maladaptive behavior learned from social and cultural influences. Caused by: psychoanalytic (unconscious), behaviorism (environment), cognitive (thoughts), humanistic (free-will). |
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DSM - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
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Used to classify disorders
Multiaxial (5 dimensions) ***Over 200 Disorders |
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Problems With DSM
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Improper Diagnosis (Rosenhan's Experiment, 1973)
Labeling Self-fulfilling Prophecy |
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Intern Syndrome
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Attributing disorders to oneself.
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Diagnostic Syndrome
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Telling others their disorder.
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Personality Disorders
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Traits that are inflexible, maladaptive, and cause significant impairment or subjective distress.
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Anxiety Disorders
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Heightened levels of uneasiness and apprehension.
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Phobias
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Irrational fear of specific objects or situations.
Most disabling: Agoraphobia - away from a safe place. |
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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Reoccurring thoughts or activities that the person can not control.
Obsessions: thoughts. Compulsions: actions. |
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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Recurrent memories or dreams of experience (flash backs).
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Constant, undefined anxiety.
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Affective Disorders
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Mood (depression)
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Major Depression
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Unipolar, overwhelming feeling of sadness.
Loss of interest, self-blame, sleep problems. *Two weeks. |
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SAD
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Seasonal Affective Disorder.
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Manic-Depressive
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Bipolar, roller coaster high-low.
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Somatoform Disorders
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Physical symptoms with no organic cause.
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Conversion Disorder
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Problem converted to body.
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Hypochondriasis
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Unrealistic belief of disease.
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Dissociative Disorders
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Splitting off of conscious experience, identity, or memory.
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Amnesia
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Loss of memory following stress or trauma (fugue - new identity).
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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
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Two or more distinct personalities.
*Maintain contact with reality *Child abuse and incest |
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Psychotic Disorders
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Extreme and incurable mental dysfunction.
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Schizophrenia
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Loss of contact with reality and extreme disturbances in perception, thoughts, and mood.
Symptoms: Hallucinations - false perceptions Delusions - false beliefs >Of Granduer - someone else >Of Persecution - people out to hurt me >Of Reference - everything references me Word Salads: incoherent, loose word associations. Echolalia and or rhyming Emotional Abnormality Withdrawal |
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Three Types of Schizophrenia
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Disorganized: thinking and emotional symptoms.
Catatonic: waxy flexibility (if I move, the world will end). Paranoid: delusions of persecution. |
