Historical Context

Question 1

Psychological Disorder

Answer 1

Psychological dysfunction associated with distress or impairment in functiong that is not a typical or culturally expected response.

Question 2

Phobia

Answer 2

Psychological disorder characterised by marked and persisten fear of an object or situation.

Question 3

Abnormal Behaviour

Answer 3

Psychological dysfunction with an individual that is associated with distress or impairment in functioning and a response that is not typical or culturally expected.

Question 4

Psychopathology

Answer 4

Scientifc study of pscyhological disorders.

Question 5

Scientist-practitioners

Answer 5

Mental health professions who are expected to apply scientific methods to their work. They must keep current in the latest research on diagnosis and treatment, they must evalute thie own methods for effectivenss, and they may generate their own research to discover new knowledge of disorders and their treatment.

Question 6

Presenting problem

Answer 6

Original complaint reported by the client to the therapist. The actual treated problem may sometimes by a modification derived from the presenting problem.

Question 7

Clinical description

Answer 7

Details fof the combination of behaviours, thoughts and feelings of an individual that make up a particular disorder.

Question 8

Prevalence

Answer 8

Number of people displaying a disorder in the total population at any given time (compare with incidence).

Question 9

Incidence

Answer 9

Number of new ases of a disorder appearing during a specific period (compare with prevalence).

Question 10

Course

Answer 10

Pattern of development and change of a disorder over time.

Question 11

Prognosis

Answer 11

Predicted future development of a disorder over time.

Question 12

Aetiology

Answer 12

Cause or source of a disease.

Question 13

Exorcism

Answer 13

Religious ritual that attributes disordered behaviour to possession by demon and seeks to treat the individual by driving the demons from the body.

Question 14

Psychosocial treatment

Answer 14

Treatment practices that focus on solcial and cultural factors (such as family experience), as well as psychological influences. These approaches included cognitive, behavioural and interpersonal methods.

Question 15

Moral therapy

Answer 15

Psychosocial approach in the nineteenth century that involved treating patients as normally as possible in normal environments.

Question 16

Mental hygiene movement

Answer 16

Mid-nineteenth-century effort to improve care of the mentally diordered by informing the public of thei mistreatment.

Question 17

Psychoanalysis

Answer 17

Psychoanalytic assessment and therapy, which empasises exploration of, and insight into unconscious processes and conflicts, pioneered by Sigmund Freud.

Question 18

Behaviourism

Answer 18

Explanation of human behaviour, including dysfunction, based on principles of learning and adaptation derived from experimental psychology.

Question 19

Unconscious

Answer 19

Part of the psychic make-up that is outside the awareness of the person.

Question 20

Catharsis

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Rapid of sudden release of emtional tension thought ot be an important factor in psychoanalytic therapy.

Question 21

Psycholoanalytic model

Answer 21

Complex and comprehensive theory orinally advanced by Simund Freud that seeks to account for the development and structue of personality, as well as the origin of abnormal behaviour, based primarily on inferred inner entities and forces.

Question 22

id

Answer 22

In psychoanalysis, the unconscious psychical entity present at birth representing basic sexual and aggressive drives.

Question 23

ego

Answer 23

In psychoanalysis, the psychical entity responsible for finding realistic and practical ways to satisfy id drives.