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Lesson 1 Flashcards

1
Q

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

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Psychological Disorder

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refers to a breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning.

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Psychological Dysfunction

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3
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Individual is extremely upset and cannot function properly.

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Distress or Impairment

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Deviates from the average or the norm of the culture.

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Atypical or Not Culturally Expected

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5
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Scientific study of
psychological disorders.

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Psychopathology

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6
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Received Ph.D. and follow a course of graduate-level study lasting approx. 5 years.

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Clinical/Counseling Psychologist

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7
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A psychological disorder characterized by marked and persistent fear of an object or situation.

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Phobia

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8
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Another term for psychological disorder.

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Problematic abnormal behavior

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9
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A related concept that is also useful is to determine whether the
behavior is out of the individual’s control (something the person
doesn’t want to do).

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Harmful dysfunction

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10
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Focus on clinical training and deemphasize or eliminates research training

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Psy.D.

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11
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Integrate clinical and research training
o Psychiatrists – first earn an M.D. in med school, then specialize in Psychiatry

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Ph.D.

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12
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Rarns master’s in social work as they develop expertise in collecting information relevant to the social and
family situation of the individual

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Psychiatric Social Workers

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13
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They may keep up with the latest scientific developments in their field
and utilize the knowledge in their practice

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Scientist-practitioners

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14
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Traditional shorthand way of indicating why the person
came to the clinic; answers “what?”

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Presenting problem/Presents

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15
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Represents the unique combination of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that make up a specic disorder.

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Clinical description

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16
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Refers both to the types of problems or disorders that you would find in a clinic or hospital and to the activities
connected with assessment and treatment.

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Clinical

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17
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Statistical concepts/figures

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Prevalence
Incidence
Sex ratio

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18
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Statistical concept/figure which answers how many people in the population as a whole have the disorder.

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Prevalence

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Statistical concept/figure which answers how many new cases occur during a given period, such as a year

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Incidence

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20
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Types of course

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Chronic
Episodic
Time-limited

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21
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Somewhat individual pattern that most disorders follow.

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Course

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22
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A course that tends to last a long time, sometimes a lifetime

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Chronic

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A course where the individual is likely to recover within a few months only to suffer a recurrence of the disorder at a later time; worse when recurred.

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Episodic

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24
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A course where the disorder will improve without
treatment in a relatively short period with little or no risk of
recurrence; will be experienced whether you like it or not; won’t stay

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Time-limited

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25
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Types of onset

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Acute
Insidious

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26
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An onset that begins suddenly

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Acute

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27
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An onset that develops gradually over an extended period of time; harmful; something bad will happen

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Insidious

28
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The anticipated course of disorder; assesses if good or bad

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Prognosis

29
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Causes & factors from behavioral & cognitive processes

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Psychological dimension

30
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Chemical imbalance in the body; biological determinance

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Biological dimension

31
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A surgical procedure in which a circular piece of bone is drilled and excised, most commonly from the human skull.

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Trephination

32
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Study of origins; has to do with why a disorder begins (what causes it); includes biological, psychological,
and social dimensions.

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Etiology

33
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3 major models that have guided us date back to the beginnings of
civilization.

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Supernatural model
Biological model
Psychological model

34
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Being hysterical, too emotional, exaggerated, and has extreme emotions; treated as being possessed

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Hysteria

35
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Views psychological disorder as being possessed by an evil spirit

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Demonoligical model

36
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Contagious manifestations; practiced continuously; persecutory delusions

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Shared psychosis

37
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Whole groups of people were
simultaneously compelled to run out in the streets, dance, shout, rave, and jump around in patterns as if they were a particularly wild party

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Mass hysteria

38
Q

Rejected the notions of possession and suggested that the movement
of moon and starts had profound effects on people’s psychological functioning

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Paracelsus

39
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Founder of modern psychiatry;
used compassion and pioneering approach in treating mental illness in Europe during the time of witchcraft

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Johann Weyer

40
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Father of Modern Medicine; started scientific approach on viewing abnormalities

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Hippocrates

41
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4 humors of Hippocrates

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Blood (Sanguine)
Yellow Bile (Choleric)
Black Bile (Melancholic)
Phlegm (Phlegmatic

42
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Humor of very positive people.

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Blood/Sanguine

43
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Humor of short-tempered people

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Yellow bile/choleric

44
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Humor of introspective and sentimental people; possible to commit suicide

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Black bile/Melancholic

45
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Humor of calm and unemotional people

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Phlegm/Phlegmatic

46
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A process where a carefully measured amount of blood was removed from the body, often with leeches.

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Bleeding/Bloodletting

47
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Cause of certain aspects that affects your system

A

Multidimensional

48
Q

A sexually transmitted disease caused by a bacterial microorganism entering the brain, include believing that
everyone is plotting against you

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Advanced syphilis

49
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Psychological disorders characterized in part by beliefs that are not based in reality (delusions), perceptions that are not based in reality (hallucinations), or both

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Psychosis

50
Q

The procedure where they’ll be using increasingly higher dosages until,
Finally, patients convulsed and became temporarily comatose

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Insulin shock therapy

51
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A drug that diminished hallucinatory and delusional thought processes in some patients; controlled agitation and aggressiveness.

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Neuroleptics

52
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A drug that seemed to reduce anxiety.

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Benzodiazepines

53
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Approaches to the causation of psychopathology, which focus not
only on psychological factors but also on social and cultural ones.

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Psychosocial treatment

54
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A form of therapy which includes treating institutionalized patients as normally as possible in a setting that encouraged and reinforced normal social interaction

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Moral Therapy

55
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The first major approach in psychology; elaborate theory of the structure of the mind and the role of unconscious processes in determining behavior

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Psychoanalysis

56
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2nd major approach in psychology which focuses on how learning and adaptation affect the development of psychopathology.

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Behaviourism

57
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Recalling and reliving emotional trauma that has been made unconscious and to release the accompanying tension.

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Catharsis

58
Q

The most comprehensive theory yet
constructed on the development and structure of our personalities.

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Psychoanalytic model

59
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Unconscious protective processes that keep primitive emotions associated with conflicts in check so that the ego can continue its coordinating function.

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Defense mechanisms

60
Q

Conflicts that may takeover if id and superego get too strong.

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Intrapsychic conflicts

61
Q

The underlying assumption is that all of us could reach our highest
potential, in all areas of functioning, if only we had the freedom
to grow

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Self-actualizing

62
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An approach where the therapist takes a passive role, making as few
interpretations as possible.

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Person-centered therapy

63
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The complete and almost unqualified acceptance of most of the client’s feelings and actions, is critical to the humanistic approach.

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Unconditional positive regard

64
Q

Subjects simply reported on their inner thoughts and feelings aer experiencing certain stimuli, but the results of this “armchair” psychology were inconsistent and discouraging to many experimental psychologists

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Introspection

65
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Individuals were gradually
introduced to the objects or situations they feared so that their
fear could extinguish; that is, they could test reality and see that
nothing bad happened in the presence of the phobic object or
scene.

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Systematic desensitization.

66
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a process of reinforcing
successive approximations to a final behavior or set of behaviors.

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Shaping

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