Mental Health

Question 1

What is abnormal psychology

Answer 1

The study of mental emotional and behavioural aberrations

Question 2

What’s the most common requirement for abnormality according to davey

Answer 2

Symptoms must cause clinically significant distress and impairment in social academic or occupational functioning

Question 3

What are comers 4 ds of abnormality

Answer 3

Deviance

Dysfunction

Distress

Danger

Question 4

Why do we classify abnormality

Answer 4

• give clinicians a language - agreed terminology
• help in choice of treatment
• AIDS scientific understanding

Question 5

What year did the WHO add psychological disorders to the ICD

Answer 5

1939

Question 6

What year did the APA publish its first DSM

Answer 6

1952

Question 7

What is unipolar depression

Answer 7

Extended periods of clinical depression

Impairment in social or occupational functioning

Question 8

How prevalent is unipolar depression

Answer 8

10-25% for women

5-12% for men

Question 9

What is MDD?

Answer 9

Sad mood/ loss of pleasure in usual activities

5 symptoms ATLEAST

Eg sleeping, weight loss, loss of energy, agitation, worthlessness, suicidal thoughts, difficulty concentrating

Symptoms present everyday for ATLEAST 2 weeks

Question 10

What is bipolar

Answer 10

Periods of mania that alternate with periods of depression

Question 11

What is the prevalence of bipolar

Answer 11

0.4-4.6%

Question 12

What is schizophrenia

Answer 12

Disturbances in

thought and language

Sensory perception

Emotion regulation

Behaviour

Question 13

Symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 13

Delusions

Hallucinations

Disorganised speech and behaviour

Flattened affect

Anhedonia

Alogia

Avolition

Question 14

What is the lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia

Answer 14

0.5-2%

Question 15

How many people suffer with schizophrenia worldwide

Answer 15

24 million

• no gender difference

Question 16

What stages does schizophrenia go through

Answer 16

Prodromal

Active

Residual

Question 17

What age is schizophrenia most common between

Answer 17

15 and 35

Question 18

What does the biomedical model involve

Answer 18

Brain anatomy

Brain chemistry

Hormones

Genetics

Viral infection

Question 19

Biological treatments for abnormality

Answer 19

Drug therapy

Ect

Neurosurgery

Question 20

What are concordance rates for mono and dizygotic twins

Answer 20

Mono- 44%

Di- 12%

Question 21

What do amphetamines do

Answer 21

Produce symptoms that mimic psychosis

Increase brain dopamine activity

Question 22

What did brain imaging studies find by carlsson

Answer 22

Increased levels of dopamine in the schizophrenic brain

Question 23

What do psychological models argue

Answer 23

Problems are the result of the individual acquiring dysfunctional ways of thinking and acting

Question 24

What is external attribution

Answer 24

More likely to attribute thoughts ideas and stimuli to an external source

Question 25

What does inefficient executive functioning lead to

Answer 25

Difficulties filtering irrelevant info from attention

Question 26

What do sociocultural models suggest

Answer 26

Behaviour is shaped by social forces We must examine a persons social and cultural surroundings to understand abnormal behaviour

Question 27

What's the sociogenic hypothesis

Answer 27

Life stressors lead to psychopathology

Question 28

What's the social selection theory

Answer 28

Psychopathology leads to lower economic status

Question 29

What's the David rosenhan study about nurses

Answer 29

8 researchers- admission to one of 12 psych hospitals All admitted- all but one had diagnosis of schizophrenia Despite acting normally after, normal behaviour was ignored Failure to detect sanity

Question 30

What is social labelling theory

Answer 30

Symptoms are influenced by diagnostic labels

Question 31

What is systems theory

Answer 31

Attempts to understand the family as a social system

Question 32

What is the diathesis stress model

Answer 32

Explains behaviour as a result of biological and genetic factors - nature n nurture