ABPSYCH CH1

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Study of people who suffer mental, emotional, and often physical pain ; study of abnormal behavior.

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Abnormal Psychology

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A psychological dysfunction within an individual associated with distress or impairment in functioning and a response that is not typical or culturally expected

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Psychological Disorder

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4D’s: Refers to a breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning. It interferes with daily life.

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Dysfunction

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4D’s: Refers to a breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning. It interferes with daily life.

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Dysfunction

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The individual is extremely upset. This criterion does not really define a psychological disorder because it is often quite normal.

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Distress

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Atypical or not culturally expected response. Something is considered abnormal because it occurs infrequently.

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Deviance

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Behaviors and feelings that are of potential harm to the individual such as suicidal gestures, or to others, such as excessive aggression.

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Danger

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The scientific study of psychological disorders.

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Psychopathology

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PhD degree; Specialization in treating and researching psychological problems; Conducts psychotherapy

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Clinical and Counseling Psychologist

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MD degree specialized in psychiatry; Can prescribe medications; Trained to conduct psychotherapy as well

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Psychiatrists

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MD in social work; Focus on helping patients overcome special conditions that are contributing to their problems

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Psychiatric Social Workers

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Degree in nursing; Specialize in the care and treatment of patients with psychological disorders usually in hospitals as part of a treatment team

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Psychiatric Nurses

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Employed to provide clinical services by hospitals or clinics, usually under the supervision of doctoral-level clinician.

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Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors

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Mental health professionals that take a scientific approach to their clinical work

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Scientist-Practitioner

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Clinical Description: A traditional shorthand way of indicating why the person came to the clinic

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Presents

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Clinical Description: Represents the unique combination of behaviors, thought, and feelings that make up a specific disorder.

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Clinical Description

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Clinical Description: Refers both to the types of problems or disorders that you would find in a clinic or hospital and to the activities connected with assessment and treatment

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Clinical

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Clinical Description: Commonness; how many people in the population as a whole have the disorder

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Prevalence of Disorder

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Clinical Description: Statistics on how many new cases during a given period (year)

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Incidence of the Disorder

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Clinical Description: What percentage of males and females have the disorder and typical age of onset, which often differs from one disorder to another

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Sex Ratio

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Clinical Description: The term that is used when the disorder follow a somewhat individual pattern

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Course

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Course of disorders: The disorder tend to last a long time

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Chronic Course

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Course of disorders: The individual is likely to recover within a few months only to suffer a recurrence of the disorder at a later time.

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Episodic Course

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Course of disorders: The individual is likely to recover within a few months only to suffer a recurrence of the disorder at a later time.

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Episodic Course

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Course of Disorders: The disorder will improve without treatment in a relatively short period with little or no risk of recurrence

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Time-Limited Course

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Differences in Onset: The disorder begins suddenly

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Acute Onset

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Differences in Onset: The disorder develops gradually over an extended period of time

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Insidious Onset

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The anticipated course of a disorder

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Prognosis

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The study of changes in behavior over time

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Developmental Psychology

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The study of changes in abnormal behavior

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Developmental Psychopathology

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The study of changes in abnormal behavior

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Developmental Psychopathology

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The study of abnormal behavior across the entire age span

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Life-Span Developmental Psychopathology

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The study of origins that has to do with why a disorder begin and includes biological psychological, and social dimensions

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Etiology

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If a new drug or psychosocial treatment is successful in treating a disorder, it may give us some hints about the nature of the disorder and its causes

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Treatment

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The Supernatural Tradition: Treatments included exorcism, shaving the pattern of a cross on the hair of the victim, and securing sufferers to a wall

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Demons and Witches

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The Supernatural Tradition: Insanity was a natural phenomenon caused by mental or emotional distress—curabe; Story of King Charles VI

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Stress and Melancholy

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The Supernatural Tradition: Characterized by large-scale outbreaks of bizarre behaviors

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Mass Hysteria

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The Supernatural Tradition: Emotion contagion - phenomenon where the experience of a emotion seems to spread to those around us

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Modern Mass Hysteria

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The Supernatural Tradition: Gravitational effects of the moon on bodily fluids might be a possible cause of mental disorders

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The Moon and the Stars

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Biological Tradition: The father of medicine; coined the term hysteria now called somatic symptom disorder

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Hippocrates

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Biological Tradition: Humoral Theory of Mental Illness

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Galen

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According to Galen , too much black bile means you have _____________

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Depression

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2 treatments of Hippocrates and Galen

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1. Bleeding or bloodletting 2. Induce vomiting

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It is what caused women’s health problems and that marriage is the cure; hungry for semen

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Wandering Uterus Theory

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Cure to syphilis

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Malaria led to penicillin

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Increased Higher dosage of insulin until patients convulsed and became temporarily comatose.

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Insulin Shock Therapy

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Sending six small shocks directly through the brian, producing convulsions

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Electroconvulsive Therapy

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Minor tranquilizers or reduced anxiety

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Benzodiazepines

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One of the founding fathers of Modern Psychiatry; Father of Descriptive Psychiatry

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Emil Kraepelin

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Philosophers who both believed that the causes of maladaptive behavior were the social and cultural influences in one’s life

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Plato and Aristotle

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Psychological Tradition: Treating institutionalized patients as normal as possible in a setting that encourages and reinforce social interaction

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The Rise of Moral Therapy

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Proponents of Moral Therapy - Moral Therapy

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Philippe Pinel and Jean Baptiste Pussin

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Proponents of Moral Therapy - Led reforms in the US

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Benjamin Rush

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Proponents of Moral Therapy - Mental hygiene movement

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Dorothea Dix

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Proponents of Biological Perspective: All psychological disorders can be explained in terms of brain pathology

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Wilhelm Griesinger

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Proponents of Biological Perspective: Developed a scheme for classifying symptoms into discrete disorders which is the basis of the modern classification

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Emil Kraepelin

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Proponents of Psychoanalytic Perspective: The Father of Hypnosis: Mesmerism

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Franz Anton Mesmer

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Proponents of Psychoanalytic Perspective: Connection between hypnosis and hysteria

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Jean Charcot

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Proponents of Psychoanalytic Perspective: Unconscious, hypnosis, catharsis

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Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer

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Proponents of Behaviorism: Classical Conditioning

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Ivan Pavlov

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Proponents of Behaviorism: Phobia

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John Watson

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Proponents of Behaviorism: Law of Effect

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E.L. Thorndike

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Proponents of Behaviorism: Operant Conditioning

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B.F. Skinner