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EXAM 4 Flashcards

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Criteria of Abnormal Behavior (Disruptive)

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Statistically atypical, deviates from cultural norms

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Criteria of Abnormal Behavior (Dysfunctional)

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Compromises ability to lead satisfying life, function effectively, or dangerous to self/others

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Criteria of Abnormal Behavior (Distressful)

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The person finds it troubling

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Biopsychosocial Approach

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Recognizes all the previously mentioned factors as potential influences

Psychological disorders are caused by multiple factors

Vulnerability-stress model or diathesis-stress model (pre-existing conditions can put an individual at risk of developing a psychological disorder)

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Purpose of classification

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  • Understand, treat, prevent, predict
  • Communication between clinicians
  • Billing/Managed care
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DSM

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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ICD

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The International classification of diseases

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Critiques of DSM

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  • Relies too much on social norms and subjective judgments
  • Too many new categories w/o sufficient evidence
  • Loosened standards to meet criteria
  • Heterogeneity of presentation
  • Comorbidity
  • Focuses on problems, not strengths
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Neurodevelopmental disorders in general

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Diagnosed in childhood

Often due to
- genetic differences
- atypical brain development (structure/function)
- prenatal exposure to teratogens

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) Symptoms

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Excessive anxiety and worry

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OCD Criteria

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  1. Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both
  2. These are time consuming and/or cause significant distress
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Obsessions

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THOUGHTS

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Compulsions

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ACTIONS

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OCD Cycle

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Obsessions –> Anxiety –> Compulsion –> Relief –>

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Major Depressive Disorder

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Depressed mood most of the day
Diminished interest or pleasure

Must experience 5 or more symptoms during a 2-week period

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Persistent Depressive Disorder

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When these symptoms persist for 2 years

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Manic Episode (Bipolar 1)

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Abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and abnormally and persistently increased goal-directed activity or energy LASTING AT LEAST 1 WEEK

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Hypomanic Episode (Bipolar 2)

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4 consecutive days

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Physical indications of fight or flight response

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  • Dilated pupils
  • Trembling
  • Pale or flushed skin
  • Rapid heart beat and breathing
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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

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Our stress response system defends, then fatigues

Indicated by Hans Selye

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Functions of stress

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  • Can invigorate our lives by arousing and motivating us
  • Stress keeps us SAFE
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Functions of anger

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  • Promotes survival
  • Motivating
  • Serves as a social and personal value indicator and regulator
  • Used as a “bargaining tool” and increase cooperation
  • Can alert us to injustices
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Social Determinants of Health

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  • Economic stability
  • Education access and quality
  • Health care access and quality
  • Neighborhood and built environment
  • Social and community context
  • Institutionalized discrimination = chronic stress
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Emotion-focused coping skills

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Self-care activities, involves regulating your feelings
(exercise, taking a bath, meditating)

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Problem-focused coping skills

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Facing the problem head-on
(Work on managing time, ask for support, created a to-do list)

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External locus of control

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Attributing outcomes to such things as luck, fate, or chance

(“Things happen to me,” “why is it always me?,” “There’s nothing I can do about my future”)

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Internal locus of control

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The outcomes of actions are results of own abilities

(“I determine my future,” “I make things happen,”)

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Social Support

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Calms us, lowers blood pressure, reduces stress hormones

Leads to strong immune functioning

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Religion

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Healthy behaviors
Social support
Positive emotions

Overall better health

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Influences on well-being

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Emotional ups and downs tend to balance out over the long run

We overestimate the duration of our emotions and underestimate our resiliency

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Adaptation level phenomenon

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Tendency to form judgments relative to our prior experience

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Relative deprivation

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Perception that one is worse off than those in comparison

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Happiness is not related to…

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Age, gender, physical attractiveness

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Schizophrenia

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The mind’s split from reality

Only 1 in 7 make full recovery

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Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)

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Inappropriate behaviors are present (adding)

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Negative symtoms (schizophrenia)

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Appropriate behaviors are absent (taking way)

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Hallucinations

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False perceptions

See, hear, feel, taste, smell

Most often voices that give orders

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Delusions

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False beliefs

Paranoid tendencies

Selective attention

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Schizophrenia: Brain Abnormalities

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Dopamine overactivity (pos. symtoms)

Abnormal activity (low in frontal lobes)

Abnormal anatomy (enlarged fluid filled ventricles)

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Prenatal environment (schizophrenia)

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Low birth weight, maternal diabetes, older mom, and oxygen deprivation at delivery

Fetal viral infections

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Dissociative Disorders

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Controversial and rare

Conscious awareness dissociates

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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2 or more distinct personalities

They deny awareness of each other

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Personality Disorders

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Inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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Lower emotional intelligence

Impulsive

Reduced activation to witnessing danger

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