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what is Statistical criterion?

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Extreme deviations from statistical norm. Used in medicine as well – Blood pressure.

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what are the problems with statistical criterion

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  • Where should the cut off be
  • There isn’t a specific number of standard deviations that confirms you have a disorder = It’s Arbitrary
  • There are other negative/positive in excess that are not considered mental disorders. (ex. Excessive greed or pathological happiness).
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what is Sociocultural Criterion

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Unacceptable violations of social or cultural expectations. Patterns of behaviour that society does not except ( Disappeared from the DSM in 1974).

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Problems with socioclutural criterion

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  • Cultural standards vary across time
  • Cultures differ from place to place
  • If disorders are brain-based, they cannot be cultural relative
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what did Thomas Szasz argue?

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agrued that all mental illness is cultural. There are no physical ways to determine the presence of a mental disorder. It is purely based on the interpretation of a pattern of symptoms, which in essence is a social interpretation.

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what is the impairment criterion

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Symptoms impair social, occupational, or other domains of functioning. If any of these areas are impaired than these symptoms deserve a label and should be treated.
(includes harm to self and others)

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What are the problems with the impairment criterion

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• Could someone be dangerous but not impaired and disordered?
- terrorists?
• Who decides who is impaired
• What about altruistic self-sacrifice?
• Being excessively shy can impair you, doesn’t mean you have a disorder

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what is the personal distress criterion?

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Even if symptoms cause no impairment in any area of your life, but you are concerned/bothered by your thoughts and emotion, a mental disorder can be labeled.

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what are the problems with personal distress criterion?

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• What about those dangerous, or detached from reality who are not concerned.
Ex. Someone with schizophrenia
• There are things that DO disturb us but are not considered to be a mental disorder

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what is the Medical (biomedical) Model of psychopathy?

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Abnormality is caused by physical problems in the brain

-basis for pharmacological and physical treatments

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what are the candidate disorders of (biomedical) Model of psychopathy?

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Autism, depression and schizophrenia

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what is the Psychodynamic Model?

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Abnormal thoughts, behaviors, caused by unconscious conflict

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what are the candidate disorders of Psychodynamic Model?

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  • Anxiety Disorders (neurosis)
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Somatic Symptom Disorders
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what is the behavioural model?

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  • Symptoms are not the result of a disorder they are the disorder
  • Abnormal behavior is acquired by learning then generalized inappropriately
  • Treatment changes reward conditions to produce extinction or relearning
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candidate disorders of behavioural model?

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Anxiety disorders

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what is the sociocultural model

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• Abnormal result from social pressures
-poverty unemployment, etc.
• Higher rates of mental disorder at low socioeconomic levels
• Treat by changing external conditions

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Candidate disorders of sociocultural model?

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anxiety and depression

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what are epigenomes?

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→instructions in the genome tell what it does
→ Chemical markers (epigenomes) attached to our gene
→ Genes important when active
→ which genes got turned
→ Experiences (mother’s womb, home environment) can effect our epigenomes
→ We can follow these changes across 3 generations

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• High socioeconomic status (SES) at 2-3 years old, predicts …

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better gene regulation of inflammation responses in adolescent females
• Low socioeconomic status = high level of pro inflammation

20
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• Low childhood SES of parents predicts

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higher Blood pressure of their children in adolescence

21
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• Group housing of rats did what in females and males

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  • Group housing worsened inflammatory responses for females

* Group housing improved inflammatory responses for males

22
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• Self reported targeted rejection in adolescent females at risk for depression increased what?

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expression of pro-inflammatory genes.

23
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What is the cognitive model

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  • Abnormality results from maladaptive ways of thinking, interpreting
  • Treat by changing ways of thinking through practice and reward (Cognitive-Behavioral therapy)
  • Teaching people to think differently and have alternative ways of interpreting things that happen to us
  • Most popular and successful non-medical treatment
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Candidate disorders for the cognitive model

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  • Anxiety disorders (Why are we afraid – because we think certain things are scary)
  • Depression
  • Personality Disorders
25
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What year were all the DSMs published?

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1952, 1968, 1980, 1982, 1994, 2000, 2013

26
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what categories were dropped/added to DSM-5?

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  • Subcategories of schizophrenia are now gone
  • Several Pervasive development Disorders folded into autism spectrum Disorder (ASD)
  • New categories include: Hoarding disorder; Excoriation (skin-Picking) disorder
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How are disorders organized in the DSM?

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categories are organized according to symptom similarity NOT cause

28
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Which DSM received criticism for having a psychodynamic interpretation

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DSM I

29
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Medicine diagnosis based on?

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causes

30
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Is socially deviant behaviour grounds for a mental disorder?

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NO - political, religious

31
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What are some criticisms of the DSM approach?

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→ Assume similar symptoms are resulting from a similar disorder
→Treats disorders as discrete entities, not as points on a continuum.
→ Criteria leads to ‘fads’ in diagnosis
→ Labeling biases all subsequent diagnosis and treatment
→ No known relation between DSM categories and causes of disorders

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What is the comorbidity problem?

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If you meet the criteria for any one of the disorder categories in the DSM chances are 80% that you will also make the criteria for another disorder in the DSM
• You can be comorbid for up to 4 disorders
ie. People are often comorbid for Anxiety and Depression

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The ‘not otherwise Specified’ problem?

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the symptoms do not meet the other subcategories of that disorder. Basically saying “there is no label for this”

34
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Straddled category problem?

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Diagnosis that cross the borders between two categories but don’t satisfy the requirements for either

35
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what % of the population uses drugs for a psychiatric disorder?

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20%

36
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Necessary vs. sufficient cause

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→ If some cause (A) is always followed by some effect (B), we can say A is a sufficient cause of B
→ Now suppose ONLY if (A) is present do we get (B), we say A is Necessary and sufficient

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What conditions are necessary and which are sufficient according to the diathesis stress model

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  • Both stress and predisposition are necessary but not sufficiant
38
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what is a low level of environmental sensitivity?

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regardless of what happens around them they are unaffected
o No matter how many environmental variables surround them their level of functioning will probably stay generally stable

39
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High level of environmental susceptibility?

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more effected by what happens around them

o If there are negative environmental variables individuals will have a very low level of functioning

40
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how does the susceptibility to environmental stimuli differ from the diathesis stress model?

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In environmental model above average environment leads to above average functioning, whereas in diathesis it just leads to normal

41
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Children did _____ than average when discipline is consistent and ____ then average when it is inconsistent – supports _______________model

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Better, worse, environmental suceptibility

42
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lWhat did foley at al find about Conduct disorder?

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less conduct disorder when there was low childhood adversity - environmental susceptibility

43
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What was discovered about the short alleles of serotonin which caused increased risk of depression?

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1) best response under low levels of stress,

2) most depression after poor early environment and least when they had a supportive environment

44
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Abnormal EEG in individuals with social Anxiety disorder (SAD) returns to normal after?

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behavioral therapy.

45
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Higher right side EEG to trauma-related pictures in PTSD reduced after

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CBT

46
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The first North American attempt to classify mental disorders occurred

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in the U.S. census of 1880, which distinguished just seven categories of mental illness.

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