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Pinel

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A post brutal treatment and proposed moral treatment the madness of sickness of mine caused by severe stress and inhumane treatment

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The biopsychosocial approach

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General approach posting that biological psychological and social cultural factors All play significant role in human functioning in the context of disease or illness

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Attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder

ADHD

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11% of 4 to 17 yr olds receive this diagnosis
2.5% have adhd symtoms
•treated with meds and therapy

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Classification in psychiatry and psychology

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  • provides name and description.
  • Simply to the future of the disorder
  • suggest treatment
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DSM-5

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American psychiatric Association 2013 diagnosis and statistical manual of mental disorders
Criticism: contributes to pathologist my of everyday life and system labels are society’s value judgements

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Anxiety disorders

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Marked by discussing persistent anxiety or Maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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Person is constantly tense and uneasy for no apparent reason

  • 2/3 are women
  • decreases with age
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Panic disorder

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Person experiences sudden episodes of intense Dread and often as if you have the next attack might strike
-smoking increases risk for attacks

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Phobias

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Person feels irrationally and intensely afraid of a specific object or situation

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder

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Person is troubled by repetitive thoughts or actions

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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Person has lingering memories nightmares and other symptoms for weeks after severely threatening and Uncontrollable event

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Stimulus generalization

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Fearful event can cause one to be scared of similar events

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hyper vigilance

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Natural selection

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Biological preparedness to fear threats Easily conditioned and difficult to extinguish

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Substance use disorder

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Involves continued substance craving and use despite significant like disruptions and or physical risk

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Psychoactive drugs

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Include chemicals that change perceptions and mood

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Drug effectiveness

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Depends on biological effects in the users psychological expectations

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What are the three major categories of psychoactive drugs?

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Alcohol

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Depressant 
-unleashes urges 
-slowed neural processing
(Sympathetic nervous system slows)
-memory disruption
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Warning signs of alcohol use disorder

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  • binge drinking
  • craving alcohol
  • use results in unfinished work
  • continued use when risky
  • can’t drink less often
  • avoiding family or friends when drinking
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Barbiturate

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Depressant

  • stop activity of central nervous system reducing anxiety by and Perry memory and judgment
  • Nembutal, Seconal, Amytal
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Opiates

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Depressant
-slows breathing, causes lethargy ,depresses neural activity, temporary Lessing pain and anxiety, causes with drawl
-opium and its derivatives such as codeine, morphine and heroin
Addictive

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Stimulant drugs

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  • dilation of pupils increase in heart and breathing rates rise in blood sugar and drop an appetite. Often involve increases energy and self-confidence
  • caffeine, nicotine and amphetamines (cocaine, ecstasy and meth)
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Nicotine

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Cigno central nervous system to release a flood of neurotransmitters

  • diminishes appetite
  • boost alertness and mental efficiency -calms anxiety and reduces sensitivity to pain
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Cocaine
- stimulant - quick rush of euphoria - involves crash of agitated depression
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Hallucinogens
Distort perceptions and call up sensory images without any input from the senses
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Marijuana
Continue THC - increase sensitivity to colors sounds and a tastes and smells - relaxes, disinhibition and impair motor and perceptual skills and reaction time
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LSD
Hallucinogen - acid - interferes with serotonin neurotransmitter system
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Major depressive disorder
- A persistent state of helpless depression. | - Occurs when signs of depression less to aerobics and I'm not caused by drugs or medical condition
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Bipolar disorder
- and I'll turn nation between depression and overexcited hyperactivity - may include seasonal patterns involves a search and diagnosis
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Suicide and self injury
- suicide: 1 million ppl worldwide | - nonsuicidal self injury(NSS) :cutting burning etc
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The depressed brain
- Brian activity slows - less frontal lobe activity - scarcity of norepinephrine and serotonin -most major episodes end on their own
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Cycle of depressed thinking
1. stressful experiences 2. neg explanatory style 3. depressed mood 4. cognitive and behavioral changes
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Schizophrenia
Psychological disorder characterized by delusions hallucinations disorganized speech and diminished inappropriate emotional expression - slow or fast onset - recovery is harder for slow onset - men struck earlier, harder, and more often - excess dopamine receptors - all part of brain don't connect - low frontal activity - rapid brain tissue loss
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What prenatal things can cause schizophrenia
- low birth weight - lack of oxygen during delivery - maternal prenatal nutrition - mid pregnacy viral infection
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What are odd of schizophrenia
1/100 | -1/10 for those with diagnosed fam member
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Anorexia nervosa
Person who maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight -usually teenage Female
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Bulimia nervosa
Person alternates binge eating with purging fasting or excessive exercise
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Binge eating disorder
Significant binge eating followed by distress discuss our doubts but without the purging testing our excessive exercise that Marks bulimia Nervosa
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Dissociative disorder
Conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories thoughts and feelings
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Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
Where dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities also called multiple personality disorder
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Critics of dissociative disorder
- short history of DID - lower incidence outside of North America - suggest it could be self perception instead of a disorder
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Personality disorder
Inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning may include withdrawal or avoidance of social contact insecurity, or manipulative behaviors
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Personality disorder
Inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning may include withdrawal or avoidance of social contact insecurity instability or manipulative behaviors
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Antisocial personality disorder
Lack of conscious for wrongdoing even as friends and family members impulsive fearless irresponsible some genetic tendency including lower arousal -typically make images before 15
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Psychological disorder
A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in the person's thoughts feelings and behaviors

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