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Biomedical vs. Biopsychosocial Approach

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Biomedical: Purely biological disturbances with biomedical nature. (narrow approach)
Biopsychosocial: There are biological, social, and psychological approach to individual disorder.

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Direct vs Indirect Therapy

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Direct Therapy: treatment that acts directly on individual

Indirect Therapy: Aims to increase social support by educating family and friends.

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)

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Diagnostic tool in the United States listing the symptoms of each mental disorder

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Psychotic Disorder Symptoms

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Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganized thought and behavior (+ and - symptoms)

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Positive and Negative Symptoms

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Positive Symptoms: Behaviors, thoughts, and feelings added to normal behavior (Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganized thoughts and behavior).
Negative Symptom: Affect and Avolition (absence of normal or desired behavior)

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Delusions of Reference

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False belief that common elements in environment is directed toward the individual (TV talking to him)

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Delusions of Persecution

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Belief that individual is being interfered and threatened.

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Delusions of Grandeur

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Belief that person is a some significant person.

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Thought Broadcasting

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Belief that one’s thoughts are directly broadcast to the world.

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Thought Withdrawal and Insertion

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The belief that thoughts are being removed or placed in one’s head.

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Hallucinations

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Perceptions not due to external stimuli but seem real to the person perceiving them (auditory)

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Disorganized Thought (World salad and neologisms)

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Loosening of associations.
Word salad: patient speech is just a bunch of random words.
Neologisms: inventing new words.

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Disorganized Behavior (catatonia echolalia/echopraxia)

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Inability to carry out activities of daily living.
Catatonia: Certain motor behaviors, rigid and bizarre movements
-echolalia: repeating people’s words/echopraxia: repeating people’s actions

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Affect (blunting, emotional flattening, inappropriate affect)

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Experience and display of emotion can be caused by antipsychotics.

  • blunting: severe reduction of intensity of expression
  • emotional flattening: no sign of emotion.
  • inappropriate affect: affect is inappropriate in context.
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Avolition

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Decreased engagement in goal-directed actions.

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Schizophrenia and Diagnosis

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Break between individual and reality (6 months), and one month of positive symptoms.

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Phases of Schizophrenia

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Prodromal Phase: deterioration and social withdrawal, role dysfunction.
Active Phase: psychotic symptoms displayed (schizophrenia) slower it develops harder to diagnose
Residual Phase: after an active episode with mental clarity when individual becomes aware.

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Personality disorder with psychotic symptoms (usually personality first) Odd eccentric, reference thinking, magical belief

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Delusion Disorder

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Psychotic symptoms limited to delusions (1 month)

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Brief Psychotic Disorder

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Positive psychotic symptoms appear (<1 day)

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Schizophreniform Disorder

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Schizophrenia for only 1 month

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Schizoaffective Disorder

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Major mood episodes (depressive + mania) w/ psychotic symptoms.

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Depressive Disorders

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Characterized by feelings of negative emotions causing significant distress

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9 Depressive Symptoms (sadness + SIG E. CAPS)

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Sadness: Depressed mood, feelings of sadness
Sleep: Insomnia or Hypersomnia
Interest: Anhedonia
Guilt: Feeling of inappropriate guilt or worthlessness
Energy: depressed energy
Concentration: Decrease in ability to concentrate
Appetite: changed in diet (5%+ weight change)
Psychomotor: Psychomotor retardation and agitation (restlessness and slowed movements)
Suicidal thoughts

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Major Depressive Disorder
Distress caused by Presence of Major Depressive episode (2 week) in where 5/9 of depressive symptoms are encountered with anhedonia OR depressed mood.
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Persistent Depressive Disorder (dysthymia)
Experiences a majority of 2 years in depressed mood.
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Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
(ages 6-10), persistent and recurrent emotional irritability in multiple environments.
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Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Mood changes occurring a few days before and after menes.
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Seasonal Affective Disorder and Light Therapy
Depression caused by dark winter months, common therapy is to expose patients with bright light during the day.
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Postpartum Depression
Rapid change in hormones after birth cause depressive symptoms.
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Manic Symptoms
Exaggerated elevation in mood, with goal-driven hyperactivity.
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DIG FAST
Distractibility: Inability to remain focused Irresponsibility: Engaging in risky activities w/o future actions Grandiosity: Exaggerated increase in self-esteem Flight of Thoughts: Racing thought (rapid speech) Activity: increase goal-orientated activities Sleep: decreased need for sleep Talkative: exaggerated desire to sleep
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Hypomanic vs Manic Episode
Hypomanic (4 days) 3/7 symptoms and not severe enough | Manic: (7 days) 3/7 and severe to impair
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Bipolar I Disorder
Presence of manic episodes only (can have depressive)
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Bipolar II Disorder
Presence of hypomania and depressive episodes.
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Cyclothymic disorder
Presence of symptoms of mania and depression but not severe enough for episodes. Majority of 2 year period.
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Monoamine Theory of Depression
Norepinephrine and Serotonin too much in Mania, too little in Depression
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Anxiety and Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety: fear of upcoming event | Anxiety Disorder: irrational and excessive fear affect daily functioning.
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Phobias and Specific Phobia
Specific phobia: fear and anxiety produced by specific objects or situation. (immediate and irrational no thoughts)
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Separation Anxiety Disorder
Being separated from an individual cause them to worry and be anxious (past age of normalcy)
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Social Anxiety Disorder
Social phobia because people think they will be viewed negatively by others (embarrassed or negatively perceived) Avoidant behavior to impairement
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Selective Mutism
Associated with SAD and inability to talk when speaking is expected (usually uncomfortable and high tension)
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Panic Disorder
Recurrence of unexpected panic attacks (sudden urge of losing control of body and death) excessive activation of the SNS causing impairing social anxiety
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Expected and Unexpected Panic Attacks
If there is a specific trigger, or if it is random.
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Agoraphobia
Fear of being in places with difficulty of escape (may stem from having panic attack or embarrassment) usually diagnosed with panic, SAD, and phobias
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Disproportionate and persistent worry about things in general (6 months) Suffers from exhaustion issues.
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Obsessive-Compulsion Disorder
Obsessions: intrusive and persistent thought of need that produce anxiety or something bad will happen Compulsions: the rule of action or behavior to alleviate that obsession induced stress. this cycle becomes super impairing
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Muscle Dysmorphia
Preoccupation of a unrealistic negative evaluated body part (attractiveness). This can cause for cosmetic surgeries. Muscle Dysmorphia: believes their body to be too small.
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Hoarding Disorder
Obsession to hoard items (maybe it'll become useful)
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Trichotillomania and Excoriation Disorder
Trichotillomania: Desire to pull one's hair Excoriation Disorder: Desire to pick at skin * failing to stop themselves from doing it
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IAAN of PTSD
Intrusion: recurrent reliving of the event, flashbacks, nightmares, thoughts. (CC) Arousal: increased startle, jittery, anxiety (CC) Avoidance: deliberate attempts to avoid objects associate with the trauma (OC) Negative Cognitive: Repressed memories, negative view and mood
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PTSD or acute stress disorder
IAAN symptoms for < 1 month, if less its ASD
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Dissociative Disorders
Avoid stress by escaping from parts of their identity but still perceive reality.
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Dissociative amnesia and Dissociative fugue
Inability to recall past experiences, and dissociative fugue: sudden unexpected move of wandering away from wherever. (confused identity)
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
two or more personalities that recurrently take control of patients behavior. mostly sexual abuse patients and try to integrate personalities into one.
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Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder
Depersonalization: detached from own minds and bodies (out of body experience) Derealization: detached from reality (dreamlike)
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Somatic Symptom Disorder
have one somatic symptom that may or may not be caused by medical condition causing excessive worry
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Illness Anxiety Disorder
Consumed with thoughts of having or developing a serious medical condition. Excessively check themselves for health issues.
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Conversion Disorder
Symptoms that seemingly affect neurological sensorimotor functions but no physical damage.
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La belle indifference
Patient who is surprisingly unconcerned by disorder usually found in conversion disorder.
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Personality Disorder (general personality disorder)
Pattern of behavior that is deviant and maladaptive causing distress or impaired functioning. (ego-syntonic)
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Ego-syntonic vs. ego-dystonic
Ego-syntonic: perceives as the behavior as normal and harmony with their goals Ego-dystonic: perceives the behavior as illness that is intrusive and bothersome
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Cluster (A) Personality PSS
Odd and eccentric behaviors Paranoid PD: Pervasive distrust of others and motives (might be in prodromal stage) delusion of persecution Schizotypal PD: odd and eccentric thinking, magical thinking Schizoid PD: detachment from social environments and restricted emotion expression.
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Cluster (B) Personality BANH
Dramatic, erratic, emotional Borderline: characterized by emotional instability in mood and self-image. (Splitting: view either as all good or all mad) Antisocial: Disregard for the rights of others (no remorse) Narcissistic: grandiose self-esteem of importance and uniqueness, not too kind on criticism. Histrionic: excessive attention seeking.
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Cluster (C) Personality DOA
Anxious or fearful Dependent PD: continuous need for reassurance and dependent on someone to make decisions OCPD: perfectionist and well-structured of life but is often stiff and humorless. Avoidant PD: extreme shyness and fear of rejection although wanting to be accepted.
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Biological Factors of Schizophrenia
genetic, birth maladies (hypoxemia), excessive marijuana during adolescence. - excessive of dopamine in brain
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Neuroleptics and antipsychotics
Medications that block dopamine receptors and depress nerve function
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Biological Factors of Depression
Abnormally high glucose in amygdala, hippocampal atrophy, high levels of cortisol, decreased norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine.
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Bipolar (mania) biological factors
Increased monoamine theory, genetic, and Multiple sclerosis patients.
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Alzheimer's Disease biological factors
When degradation of brain leads to severe impairment in normal function. Presenilin, apolipoprotein E,B-amyloid precursor protein alter likelihood of developing disease. -B-amyloid plaques -Neurofibrillary tangles of hyperphosphorylated tau -Acetylcholine reduction.
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Symptoms of Parkinson's
- Bradykinesia (slowed movement) - Resting tremor - Pill-rolling tremor - Masklike facies - Cogwheel rigidity (halting when trying to move limb) - Shuffling gait in stooped.
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Biological factors of Parkinson's
Substantia nigra (produce dopamine) becomes less black --> impairs basal ganglia functioning. (starting and ending and smoothening motor tasks).
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L-Dopa
Drug used to treat Parkinson's and replace dopamine loss.

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