APPLIED PSYCH: MENTAL HEALTH

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Decks in this class (26)

TOPIC 1- HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF MENTAL HEALTH
Mental health 1,
Mental illness 2,
Historical context of mental heal...
17  cards
TOPIC 1- Defining abnormality
Abnormality 1,
Stratton hayes 1993 3 ways to def...,
1 abnormality as behaviour which ...
9  cards
TOPIC 1- Categorising mental disorders
Diagnostic statistical manual of ...,
Main purpose of making diagnosis ...,
How does process of using dsm icd...
7  cards
TOPIC 1- Affective disorders
Mood disorders affective disorders 1,
Depression 2,
3 types of depression 3
8  cards
TOPIC 1- Psychotic disorders
Psychosis 1,
Schizophrenia 2,
Dsm classification for schizophre...
5  cards
TOPIC 1- Anxiety disorders
Anxiety disorders 1,
Examples of anxiety disorders 2,
Phobias 3
4  cards
Issues & Debates: Historical context of MH (Topic 1)
Nature nurture 1,
Conducting socially sensitive res...,
Free will determinism 3
7  cards
Rosenhan 1973 (MH Topic 1)
Background aim 1,
3 aims 2,
Method 3
28  cards
TOPIC 2: THE MEDICAL MODEL
The medical model of mental illne...,
Biomedical explanations 2,
The biomedical model diseased mod...
5  cards
Biochemical explanation for mental illness (Topic2)
The biochemical explanation 1,
Neurotransmitters 2,
Serotonin 3
5  cards
Genetic explanation for mental illness (Topic2)
The genetic explanation 1,
Genetic vulnerability to schizoph...,
Concordance rate for identical tw...
5  cards
Brain abnormality as an explanation for mental illness (Topic2)
Brain abnormality 1,
Brain abnormality in schizophrenia 2,
Brain imaging of schizophrenic br...
3  cards
Medical model application: Biological treatments
Drug treatments anti anxiety drugs 1,
Drug treatments anti psychotic dr...,
Drug treatments anti depressant d...
8  cards
Issues & Debates: The medical model (topic 2)
Nature nurture 1,
Ethical issues 2,
Free will determinism 3
7  cards
Gottesman (MH Topic 2)
Title 1,
Background 2,
Aim 3
14  cards
TOPIC 3- ALTERNATIVES TO MEDICAL MODEL- Behaviourist explanation
Behaviourist explanation of menta...,
Classical conditioning ivan pavlo...,
Classical conditioning watson ray...
6  cards
Behaviourist explanation of mental illness: Evaluation Issues & debates
Free will vs determinism 1,
Individual vs situational 2,
Nature vs nurture 3
6  cards
Behavioural explanation- PHOBIAS
Phobias characteristics 1,
Behavioural explanation suggests ...,
Evidence to support this explanat...
14  cards
Alternative to medical model: Cognitive model of abnormality
Cognitive explanations 1,
How does the cognitive explanatio...,
Main assumptions of the cognitive...
8  cards
Cognitive explanation of mental illness: DEPRESSION
Characteristics of depression 1,
This explanation suggests that de...,
Evidence to support this explanat...
5  cards
Evaluation of cognitive model of abnormality
Free will vs determinism 1,
Usefulness 2,
Cause effect nature vs nurture 3
4  cards
Alternative to medical model: Psychodynamic explanation of mental illness
Main assumptions of psychodynamic...,
According to the psychodynamic ap...,
Freud s idea 3
11  cards
Psychodynamic explanation- PHOBIAS
Psychodynamic explanation for men...,
Evidence to support this explanat...,
Issues debates 3
4  cards
Evaluation of psychodynamic model of abnormality
Usefulness 1,
Psychology as a science 2,
Weakness of psychoanalysis treatm...
4  cards
Thomas Szasz (MH Topic 3)
Summary background 1,
Updated article 2011 key research 2,
Szasz s alternative 3
14  cards
Szasz evaluation
Ethics 1,
Usefulness 2,
Nature vs nurture 3
7  cards

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