Final Exam Flashcards
thomas szasz
abnorman doesn’t edqual mental ilness
thomas joiner
suicide
psychosis
persons thoughts and perceptions are fundamentaly removed from reality
psychopaths
impaired by the lack of empathy and remores
prior medical models
religion superstition assumption of contagion mental institutions blame the victim for the weakness
Trephining
A circular section of the sull is drilled leaving a gaping whole in your skull. to people who were behaving abnormally, or had a mental ilness.
“the state hospital”
Edward keinholtz mental institution art peice with the fish tank head.
Diagnosti & criteria
Abnormal Vs. Mental illness
Interviews / observations / and testing MMPI
_must have all 3 _
Deviant : outside the norm
Dysfuntional : messes with the ability to be normal
Demand or Dangeder : demanded by the court or others around you; you are in danger to yourself and/or others
DSM-IV AXIS
I: clinical syndromes not a cure II: Personality disorders (ID) - born with it III: medical conditions IV: phsychological problems V: global assesment of fuctioning
anxiety related disorders
generalized phobic social panic & agraphobia OCD` PTSD
Etiology of anxiety related disorders
Correclations not causes
genetics: if you have the genes its more likely
Neurochemicals: decrease in GABA and seratonin
Classical&opperant conditioning: phobias formed through conditionind of the cognitive etiiology
Cognitive: tendency to interpret natural stimuli to be - Threatening
Personality: high levels of Neuroticism
Stress: onset and related to eposides of anxiety attacksz
acrophobia
irrational fear of hights; desensitization works well
Aerophobia or airophobia
irrational fear of air, maybe even fresh air.
somatic system - based disorders
Physical ailments with no organic basis (FICS)
FAKE/ Fictitious - makes crap up
IA. Illness anxiety -obsessively thinks think you will get sick
Convert -real symptoms no basis ( blindness)
Starter.Symptom obsession -multiple doctors and multiple symptoms
somo-sytem etiology
Personality : Drama queens/kings of exhaduration
Cognitive : Attention is all on them Spot light
sick role
disassociative disorders
FAID
fugue - False sense of identity
amnesia - memory loss before or after tramatic event
identity - multiple personalities
DD etionlogy
Stress : liked to the onset of episodes of memory loss
Early trauma: found in most DD cases
hannah upp
montgomery TA. suffered from fuge found floating in the hudson river a few days after she was missing
Mood-related disorders
uni polar - major depressive-persistant sadness
bipolar _depression
_mainia- reckless and impulsive- high (short) highs and low (Long) lows
mood etiology
parallel talking no ingaging in the converataion
Neuro transmitters low levels od neureprinephrin and seratonin
genetics; needs environmental factors slong with genetics
cognitive:tenincy to rumoinate, negative self talk and thoughts
social skills :poor social skills
stress: related to disorder and epidodes
culture related disorders koro and amok
KORO- disorder found in Malaysia characterized by intense anxiety that one’s sexual organs will recede into the body. Some afflicted with it become so obsessed with the delusion they mutilate themselves, in some cases causing death
RUNNING AMOK- n Malaysia and Indonesia there is mental disorder called amok, experienced mostly by men, characterized by brooding and violent outburst from an otherwise normal person caused by a slight or insult. Sometimes the outburst can be so violent that the inflicted person can kill anyone who crosses his path.
applrby and violene
Somehow related to religion
Institution vs. de institution.
40’s state funded
60’sactually getting trested community health movement.
Wyatt standerds
Revolving door. US 6 months UK 3 yaers
reduces numer of patients
psychtherapies
insight behavioral and biomedical
