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Chapters 12 & 13
Psych Disorders and Treatments
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/15/2009

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Abnormalty
Definition
-behavior that causes people to experience distress and prevents them from functioning in their daily lives
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Medical Perspecive
Definition
-Cause is physical (hormonal, chemical, or somesort of injury)
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Psychonalytic Perspective
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-Caused by childhood conflicts ith sex or agression
-Little personal responsibility
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Behavioral Perspective
Definition
-behavior itself is the problem
-Respond to stimulus
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Cognitive Perspective
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-Thoughts and beliefs are the cause
-Must be taught a new way of thought
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Humanistic Perspective
Definition
-Self Reponsibility
-Determine own limits
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Socioclutural Perspective
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-family, soc., cul.
-Relationships with others (are the cause)
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DSM-IV-TR
Definition
-Comprehensive and percise definitions
-Desciptive
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Axis I
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-Clinical Disorders
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Axis II
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-Personality Dis. and mental ret.
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Axis III
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-General Med. Condtions
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Axis IV
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-Psychsoc. & Env. Prob.
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Axis V
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-Global asses. of functioning
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Rosenhan
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-Psychologist
-labels are too inflxible interpretations
-DSM needs to introduce more variety by degree...
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Anxiety Disorder
Definition
-Worry
-No external reason/cause
-Affects daily functioning
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Phobic Disorder
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-irrational fear
-Ex. Social (Strangers)
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Panic Disorder
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-panic attacks w/o identifiable stimulus
-Agoraphobia-fear of situation without help for or escape from attack
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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-long term, persistent worry
-Cannot concentrate
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OCD
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-plagued by unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and compulsions
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Somatoform Disorders
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-physical issue without med. cause
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Hypochondriasis
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-constant fear of illness/ preoccupation with health
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Conversion Disorder
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-physical disturbance
Ex. inability to move arm
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Dissocative Disorders
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-Sep. of facets of personality
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
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-two or more distinct personal./ident.
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Dissociative Amnesia
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-Selective memory loss
-Repressed
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Dissociative Fugue
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-Sudden, impulsive new identity trips
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Mood Disorders
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-Dist. in emot. exp. that intrude on everyday livig
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Major Depession
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-Interferes withe conclusions, decisions, sociablity
-depth and duration
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Mania
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-Extended state of intense, wild elation
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Bipolar Disorder
Definition
-manic-depr. seq.
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Schizophrenia
Definition
-severe distortion of reality
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Disorganized Schiz.
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-Inappropriae, incoherant, infantile, obscene behavior
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Paranoid Schiz.
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-Dellusions, hallusinations, unpredictabe behavior
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Catatonic Schiz.
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-Movement disurbances--frozen/wild
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Undifferentiated Schiz.
Definition
Mix of schiz. symptoms
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Residual Schiz.
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-minor signs after a more serious episode
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Process Schiz.
Definition
slow, subtle progression of schiz.
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Reactive Schiz.
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-Sudden, conspic. schiz
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Positive Symptom Schiz. v. Negative Symptom Schiz.
Definition
Disordered Schiz...etc. v. withdrawn, sullen..etc.
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Dopamine Hypothesis
Definition
-occurs wen ther eis excess actiity in dopamine--using main areas
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Expressed Emotion
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-interaction style characterized by critical, ost., emot. intru. of family members
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Personality Disorders
Definition
-inflexible, maladaptive problems
-kepps from functioning in society
-little personal distress
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Antisocial Personaility Disorder
Definition
-No regard for moral/ethical rules of society
-Understnad intellectually, but no remorse
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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--Difficulty developinga secure sense of self
-rely on relationships with others
-Empty and alone
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Narcissisic Personality Disorder
Definition
-Exag. self-importance
-Inability to feel empathy for others
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comorbidity
Definition
-Simultaneous multiple disorders
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Self-defeating personality Disorer
Definition
-Removed
-Demeaning relationships, but neither left nor spoke up
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4 Disorders found globally
Definition
-Schizophrenia
-Bipolar Dis.
-Major Depression
-Anxiety Disorders
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Psychotherapy
Definition
-psychologically based therapy
-therapist used psych techniques
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Biomedical therapy
Definition
-relies o drugs and medical procedures to improve psych. functioning
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Psychodynamic therapy
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-seeks to bring unresolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses to the concious
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defense mechanisms
Definition
-psych. strategies to protect self from unconcious
-ex. repression
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psychoanalysis
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-Freudian psychotherapy
-release unconc. feelings to reduce power in controlling behavior
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free association
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-say aloud whatever comes to mind to psych.
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dream interpretation
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-examining dreams to find clues to th eunconcious
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Manifest Content
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-surface dream detail
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Latent Content
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-True meaning of the dream
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Transference
Definition
-transfer of psychoanalyst feelings of love/anger (for parents/authority figure) onto psych.
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Resistence
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-unwillingness/inability to dicuss/reveal particular thoughts/memories/motivations
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Behavioral Treatment Approaches
Definition
-Assume behaviors are learned (boh normal and abnormal)
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Aversive Conditioning
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-unpleasant stimu. with undesred beh.
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Systematic Desensitation
Definition
-gradual exposure
-hieracrchy of fears
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Exposure (treatments)
Definition
-confronted (either sudden or gradual)
with feared stimulus
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Token System
Definition
-rewards for desired behaviors (like coins or something...)
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Contingency Contracting
Definition
-written agreements...
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Dialectial Behav. Therapy
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-focus: getting people to accept who they are regardless of ideal
-choices: unhappiness r change
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Cognitive Treatment Approach
Definition
-more adaptive ways by changing dysfunctional thinking
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Cog.-Behav. Approach
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-change the way people think in addition to the thinking itself
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Rat.-Emotive Behavior Therapy
Definition
-attempts to restructe a person's belief system into a more realistc, rational, and log. set of views
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ABC Model
Definition
-neg. activ. cond. --> irrat. bel. syst. --> emot. conseq.
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Aaron Beck
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-Psychologist
-cogn.--aims to change people's illogical self/world thoughts...therapist as teacher
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Cognitive Appraisal
Definition
-Clients asked to eval. sit., self, others...etc.
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Humanistic Therapy
Definition
-draws on self-resp. in dev. treatment tech.
-disorders result from the inability to find meanings/lack of comm.
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Person-centered therapy
Definition
-client-centered
-aims to enable people to reach their potential for self-actualization
-therapists...empathetic
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Interpersonal therapy
Definition
-considers therapy in context of socual relationships here and now
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Group therapy
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-sev. unrelated people discuss issue
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Family therapy
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-two or more members
-family unit
-with roles
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Hans Eysenck
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-questioned effectiveness of therapy
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Spontaneous Remission
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-recovery without treatment
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meta-analysis
Definition
-data from large numbers of studies
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Evidence-based psychotherapy pr.
Definition
-uses research lit. to determine best treatment practices
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Eclectic Approach to therapy
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-variety of techn.--integration
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Drug therapy
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-control of pysch. dis. through drugs
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Antipsychotic drugs
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-used to reduce severe symptoms
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Chlorpromazine
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-schiz. drug
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atypical antipsychotics
Definition
-affect dopamine/seratonin levels
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Antidepressant drugs
Definition
-severe dep. cases--> improve mood
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Mood stabilizers
Definition
-used to treat mood disorders
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deinstitutionalization
Definition
-transfer from hospital to community
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