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| Area of psychological investigation concerned with understanding the nature of individual pathologies of mind, mood, and behavior. |
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| What does it mean to be normal or abnormal? |
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| We can't really define normal or abnormal it's culturally defined. |
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
-Psychology's best shot at defining normal and abnormal. |
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Depression runs in families
Adopted people more resemble their biological parents in terms of depression. |
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| Which gender is twice as likely to be depressed? |
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Internal/External
Global/Specific
Stable/Unstable
-People are consistent over their lifetime in how they attribute their failures. |
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| Seasonal Affective Disorder |
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| Cognitive therapy and Tricyclic drugs |
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-Focuses on how people think and how to change that
-Change explanatory style |
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Block reuptake of neurotransmitters
-Prozac (block reuptake of serotonin)
-Takes 2 weeks to work
-50-70% improve compared to 20-30% improvement with placebos. |
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| Severe form of psychopathology in which personality seems to disintegrate, thought and perception are distorted, and emotions are blunted. |
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| Different types of Schizophrenia |
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4 types
-Paranoid
-Disorganized
-Catatonic
-Undifferentiated |
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Brain damage (shrunken cerebral cortex, enlarged cerebral ventricles)
Genetics
Stress
Season of birth (winter month babies) |
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| Treatment for Schizophrenia |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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| Often occurs in response to persons severely abused as children and are easily hypnotizable |
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| Prehistoric thought of mental illness |
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| Mental illnesses were assumed to originate from magical beings that interfered with the mind. |
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| Past treatment of the mentally ill |
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| Drilling into someone's skull so evil demons can escape. |
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| treatment of psychological disorders by methods that include a personal relationship between a therapist and a client. |
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-Sigmund Freud 1890s
-Discover connections among unconscious thoughts and conscious behaviors
-Dream analysis |
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-Works very well for PTSD
-Systematic Desensitization
-Flooding
-Clients are put directly into a phobic situation. |
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| post traumatic stress disorder |
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-Behavior modification
-Focuses on what people do and how they act.
-Systematic use of principles of learning to increase or decrease the frequency of behaviors. |
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-Carl Rogers
-Emphasizes the healthy psychological growth of the individual. |
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Works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development.
Interaction between family members
Problems result from interactions, NOT individual members. |
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-Narrative
-Gestalt
-Attachment
-Dialectical Behavioral
-Acceptance and Commitment
-Rational-Emotive
-Social-Skills |
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| A mix of different therapies that best suits the client and the problem. |
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| Person receiving therapy shows greater improvement than 80% of similar people not receiving treatment. |
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| What type of psychotherapy works best? |
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| It depends on what the problem is! |
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| Psychopathological functioning |
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| Disruptions in emotional, behavioral, or though processes that lead to personal distress or block one's ability to achieve important goals. |
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| A man who cannot leave his home without weeping would be unable to pursue ordinary life goals. |
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| Someone who is drinking so heavily that he/she can't hold down a job or who is endangering other through her intoxication. |
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| A man who responds to voices that do not exist in objective reality. |
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| A child who smashes his fist through a window for no apparent reason. |
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| Unconventionality and statistical rarity |
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| Individual behaves in in ways that are statistically rare and that violate social standards of what is acceptable or desirable. |
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| A woman walking down the middle of the side-walk, having a loud conversation with herself, creates observer discomfort in other pedestrians trying to avoid her. |
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| Violation of moral and ideal standards |
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| An individual violates expectations for how one ought to behave with respect to societal norms. (parents who abandoned their children are abnormal) |
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| The label given to psychological abnormality by classifying and categorizing the observed behavior pattern into an approved diagnostic system. |
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| The experience of more than one disorder at the same time. |
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| The causes of, or factor related to, the development of a disorder. |
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| stop trying after repeatedly failing. |
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| What causes personality disorders? |
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| Emotions you have, thoughts, and beliefs |
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| Characteristics of Antisocial Personality disorders |
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| Breaking laws, lying, acting impulsively, aggressiveness, recklessness, being irresponsible, lack of guilt |
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| What disorder do sociopaths and serial killers usually have? |
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| Antisocial Personality Disorder |
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| Characteristics of Borderline Personality Disorder |
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Violent mood swings
Black and white thinking or "splitting"
Chaotic relationships |
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| Characteristics of Narcissistic Personality Disorder |
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Overestimation of abilities
Constant need for attention and admiration
Takes advantage of others to suit own needs |
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| What are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia? |
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Excess or distortion of normal functions.
Exaggeration of movements. |
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| What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia? |
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| Jumbled thoughts, thinking things that aren't thorough. |
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| Positive inappropriate emotions |
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The abnormal inhumane reaction to something
ex. laughing at your mothers funeral. |
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| Negative inappropriate emotions |
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Not feeling anything at all
ex. numbness/disconnected |
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| Assumes that people disown parts of themselves that are socially disapproving. |
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| Systematic desensitization |
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| A behavioral therapy technique in which a client is taught to prevent the arousal of anxiety by confronting the feared stimulus while relaxed. |
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| How the client and therapist interact with one another. |
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| What causes people to go to therapy? |
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| Thoughts, beliefs, and feelings |
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| What are two reasons for therapy? |
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| Psychological disorders and adjustment disorders |
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| Transferring parts of a problematic relationship onto the therapist and reenacting it |
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| Therapist projects aspects of their personality to you. |
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| focuses on quality of client's conscious experience |
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| to see the world as dangerous and threatening and to ignore evidence to the contrary. |
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