L1 - Module Overview Flashcards
1
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What is mental health?
A
- Dysfunctional behaviour
- Deviations from the norm
- Atypical behaviour
- Related to mental health disorders
- More medically orientated
- Scientifically founded
2
Q
What is clinical psychology?
A
- Dysfunctional behaviour
- Deviations from the norm
- Atypical behaviour
- Related to mental health disorders
- Assessment and Psychotherapy
- Less Science involved/subjective
3
Q
What is a mental health disorder?
A
- Clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotions, or behaviour that reflects dysfunction in the psych, bio or developmental processes underlying mental function
- Associated with significant distress
4
Q
When is it not a mental disorder?
A
- Expectable/culturally approved response to a common stressor
- Socially deviant behaviour and conflicts between society and individuals
- UNLESS deviance comes from dysfunction
5
Q
What is abnormal/atypical behaviour?
A
- Statistically infrequent behaviour
- Negative bias to society
- Socially deviant
- Unexpected and inappropriate
- Leads to personal distress & harmful dysfunction
6
Q
Can we determine atypical behaviour:
A
- No single definition
- Definitions change with social norms = new advances
- Individual differences
- Social judgments are subjective
- Most social/cog issues have biological underpinning
7
Q
Where does atypical behaviour originate?
A
- Age, sex, hereditary conditions
- Individual lifestyle factors
- Social and community networks
- General socioeconomic, cultural and env conditions
8
Q
What are the approaches to aetiology of abnormal psych?
A
- Biol/med
- Psychoanalytical
- Behavioural
- Cognitive
9
Q
How do we understand disorders (broadly)
A
- Aetiology (cause)
- Presentation, symptoms and assessment
- Diagnosis/identification
- Treatment, therapy and management
10
Q
What is aetiology?
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- Developmental
- Infection
- Life event
- Demographic status
- Genetics
- Home life
- Cognitive
- Biological
- Behavioural
11
Q
What are presentations? (How do you see these behaviours)
A
- Maladaptive behaviour
- Neuropsych assessment
- Rare/abnormal behaviours
- Interviews
- Pathology
12
Q
What is diagnosis and identification?
A
- Severity
- DSM/ICD
- Co-morbidities
- Differential diagnosis
13
Q
What are possible treatments?
A
- Biological
- Drugs
- DBT/CBT
- Deep brain stimulation
- Gene therapy
- Flooding
