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Clinical psychology

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Branch of psych; assessment and treatment if mental illness, abnormal behavior and psychiatric problems

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Personality

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Person’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting

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4 personality framework questions

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  • What is the nature of humans?
  • What motivates our behavior?
  • What factors are important for development of personality?
  • Can we change, how?
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Psychodynamic approach (Freud)

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Conflicting forces; unconscious influences

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Hysteria

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Physical symptoms without physical cause

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Seduction theory

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Mental problems due to actual sexual abuse

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Three aspects of mind

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  1. Conscious
  2. Preconscious
  3. Unconscious
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Conscious mind

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Current awareness

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Preconscious mind

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Things we can become aware of

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Unconscious mind

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Blocked from awareness

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Repression

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Blocking of Id impulses, motivated forgetting

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Denial

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Saying you aren’t in a current state

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Rationalization

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Logical reason to not feel a certain way

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Displacement

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“Kicking the dog” taking it out on something else

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Projection

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The other person is feeling something, not you

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Reaction formation

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Present themselves as the opposite of they feel

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Sublimination

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Displacement to socially acceptable activity

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Freud’s developmental theory

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Goal: experience optimal gratification at each stage without fixation

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Freud’s stages in order

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  1. Oral stage
  2. Anal stage
  3. Phallic stage
  4. Latency period
  5. Genital stage
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Oral stage

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Birth to 18 months; weaning=overly dependent or hostile/outspoken
E-zone: mouth

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Anal stage

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18 months to 3 years; toilet training=generous/messy or stingy/neat
E-zone: anus
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Phallic stage

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3 to 5 years, Resolving sexual identity issues Oedipal crisis: prove manhood or Electra complex: inferior/seductive
E-zone: penis/lack of one

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Latency period

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5 to puberty, repressed libido and displacement to other activities

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Genital stage

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Remainder of life, sexual urges towards others, drive towards love and generation

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Criticisms if Freud's theory
1. Not scientific 2. Vague and unstable 3. Culturally bound
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Positive regard
Sense of being loved
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Conditional positive regard
You are only loved and excepted if you.... Use defense mechanisms Short run not long run
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Unconditional positive regard
You have value and are loved despite how you behave | Separate actions from worth
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Personal constructs
Beliefs about ourselves and interact with out environment
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Humanistic theory
1. Personal responsibility 2. Present 3. People can change
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Cognitive social approach
1. Learning is important 2. People have control over responses to environment 3. Have capacity to change
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Positive psychology
Shares focus with humanistic view but is evidence bases
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Eclectic view
Mix of all theories
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Self-serving bias
Readiness to perceive oneself favorably
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How to define abnormal behavior
1. Clinically significant-warrant professional help 2. Internal source-stems from within 3. Involuntary manifestation
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Factors effecting psychological disorders
1. Predisposing factors-in place before disorder begins 2. Precipitating causes-current stressors 3. Maintaining causes-rewards(attention)
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Fear
Specific item, situation or though
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Anxiety
Vague unspecified generalized fears or future fears
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Generalized anxiety disorder
GAD eggs greater worry and tension. Anticipate disaster
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Phobia
Intense irrational fear of specific objects
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Obsessive compulsive disorder
OCD recurrent thought impulses or images
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Bipolar
Reoccurring episodes of depression and mania with normal moods in between
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Hypomania
Less severe mania
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Dysthymia
Less severe depression
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Cyclothymia
Less severe bipolar disorder
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Schizophrenia
Break from reality
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Symptoms of schizophrenia
Delusions of control, grandeur, reference, and persecution
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Hallucinations
Seeing and hearing things that are not there
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Disordered thoughts
Unusual associations
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Subtypes of schizophrenia
Paranoid and disorganized
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Paranoid type
Delusions of persecution Well-organized delusions Not the violent type
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Disorganized type
``` Speech disorganization (word salad) Poorly developed delusions Not the violent type ```
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Catatonic schizophrenia
Motor symptoms; hold same position normal people can't
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Undifferentiated schizophrenia
For people who don't fit into the other categories
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Personality disorders
Stable, long-term, extreme personality characteristics, and impair functioning and/or social relationships, non-treatable
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Cluster A: Odd–eccentric personality disorders
Paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal
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Cluster B: dramatic-emotional
Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic
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Antisocial personality disorder
(Psychopath) appear charming have no remorse or feelings of responsibility for their actions don't learn from punishment and are the dangerous type
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Borderline personality disorder
The woman version of antisocial personality disorder | Clingy to others overly possessive short-term stormy relationships
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Cluster C: anxious-fearful personality disorders
Avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive
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Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Rigid behavior perfectionists dogmatic and emotionally blocked
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Counter conditioning
Exposure therapy; flooding

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