Week 9 Feeding and Eating Disorders, Substance-Related Disorders & Personality Disorders

Question 1

Anorexia Nervosa

Answer 1

An eating disorder in which the individual starves themselves, exercises excessively, or eliminates food in other ways (such as vomiting) until they are at least 15% below their ideal body weight

Question 2

Bulimia Nervosa

Answer 2

Characterised by a binge and purge syndrome

Question 3

Conduct Disorder

Answer 3

Characterised by persistent violation of societal norms and the rights of others

Question 4

What are substance-related disorders?

Answer 4

Characterised by continued use of a substance (such as alcohol or cocaine) that negatively affects psychological and social functioning

Question 5

What is alcohol dependence?

Answer 5

The abuse of alcohol

Question 6

What is Borderline Personality Disorder

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Marked by extremely unstable interpersonal relationships, dramatic mood swings, and unstable sense of identity, manipulation and impulsive behaviour

Question 7

What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?

Answer 7

Marked by irresponsible and socially disruptive behaviour in a variety of areas

Question 8

What is a Clinical Psychologist?

Answer 8

A health care professional that delivers treatment to patients suffering a mental illness or disorder

Question 9

What is the scientist-practitional model?

Answer 9

Adopted by Australian Universities to teach psychology

Question 10

What are Multidisciplinary teams?

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Commonly used in community health-facilities and draw together professionals from a range of specialities to carry out tasks

Question 11

What is Therapeutic Alliance?

Answer 11

A patient has to feel comfortable with the therapist in order to speak about emotionally significant experiences

Question 12

What is Therapeutic Alliance?

Answer 12

A patient has to feel comfortable with the therapist in order to speak about emotionally significant experiences

Question 13

What is Free Association?

Answer 13

A therapeutic technique for exploring associational networks and unconscious processes involved in symptom formation. Think bloch tests

Question 14

Name a central element of psychodynamic technique

Answer 14

Interpretation of conflicts and defences where the therapist helps the client understand their experience in a new light

Question 15

Name a kind of interpretation used in psychodynamic therapy

Answer 15

Resistance

Question 16

What is transference?

Answer 16

The process whereby people experience similar thoughts, feelings, fears, wishes and conflicts in new relationships that they did in past relationships

Question 17

What was the first kind of psychotherapy?

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Psychoanalysis

Question 18

What is psychodynamic psychotherapy?

Answer 18

Where a patient and therapist will sit face to face

Question 19

What is cognitive behavioural therapy?

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A method of therapy derived from behaviourist and cognitive approaches to learning

Question 20

What is behavioural analysis?

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Examination of the stimuli or thoughts that are associated with a symptom

Question 21

What is systematic desensitisation?

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A technique of cognitive behavioural therapy where the patient gradually confronts a phobic stimulus mentally while in a state that inhibits anxiety

Question 22

What are exposure techniques?

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Presents patients with with the phobic stimulus in real life, rather than having them imagine it

Question 23

What is flooding?

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Exposure to a phobic stimulus all at once instead of gradually

Question 24

What is graded exposure?

Answer 24

Gradual exposure to the phobic stimulus

Question 25

What is virtual reality exposure therapy?

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Patients are exposed to virtual images of the feared stimulus

Question 26

What is response prevention?

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Preventing the patient from producing responses that allow avoidance of the feared stimulus

Question 27

What is post traumatic growth?

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Refers to the way in which survivors of trauma may experience positive psychological changes as result of the trauma

Question 28

What is Participatory modelling?

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The therapist models the behaviour and gradually incudes the patient to participate in it

Question 29

What is skills training?

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Involves teaching the behaviours necessary to accomplish relevant goals

Question 30

What is mindfullness?

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Defined as directing one's attention to the present moment with acceptance, and without judgement

Question 31

What is the focus of cognitive therapy?

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Changing dysfunctional cognitions presumed to underlie psychological disorders

Question 32

What is the ABC theory of psychopathology?

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A: Activating conditions B: Belief conditions C: Emotional consequences

Question 33

What is the rational-emotive behaviour therapy?

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Proposed by Ellis, attempts to address the belief systems that mediate between activating conditions and maladaptive emotional reactions

Question 34

What is the aim of Becks cognitive therapy?

Answer 34

Targets cognitive distortions

Question 35

What is the aim of humanistic therapies?

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To help people get in touch with their feelings and true self

Question 36

How is group therapy usually conducted?

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5-10 people will meet with a therapist on a regular basis, usually once a week for two hours

Question 37

What is a self help group?

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Usually not guided by a professional and often has many more than the 5-10 participants in group therapy

Question 38

What is a genogram?

Answer 38

A map of a family over three or four generations

Question 39

What are Benzodiazepines

Answer 39

A form of anxiolitics medication which can be used to treat anxiety