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Unit 7
disorders, treatment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Distressful/Disturbing | troublesome to other people and oneself |
| Deviant/Atypical | outside the norm |
| Maladaptive | destructive to oneself or others, causes problems in everyday life |
| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSMIVTR) | lists all currently accepted categories of mental disorders and descriptions, does not list causes or treatments |
| Diagnostic Labeling | describe abnormal behavior, doesn’t explain it |
| David Rosenhan Study | how valid the DSMIVTR is |
| Sanity vs. Insanity (Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity) | legal terms, not medical terms, can you control your actions |
| Medical Model | mental illnesses can be diagnosed based on symptoms and cured through therapy |
| Biopsychosocial Model | biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors combine to cause psychological disorders |
| Diathesis Stress Model | genetic predisposition and a stressful environment combine to cause psychological disorders |
| Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) | persistent, unexplained feelings of tenseness, feel nervous, bad gut feeling |
| Post | Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |
| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) | unwanted repetitive thoughts and actions, obsessions cause compulsions, compulsions relieve obsessions |
| Obsessions | repetitive thoughts |
| Compulsions | repetitive actions |
| Phobic Disorder/Phobias | disruptive, irrational fears of objects or situations |
| Social Phobia | fear of social situations |
| Specific Phobia | an irrational fear of a specific object or situations |
| Agoraphobia | fear of situations you view as difficult to escape |
| Panic Disorder | sudden bouts of intense, unexplained panic; one or more panic attack |
| Major Depressive Disorder | irrationally experiences two weeks of depressed moods, diminished interest in activities, and other symptoms such as worthlesness |
| Dysthymic Disorder | shares many symptoms or major depressive disorder, but less sever and longer lasting (two years) |
| Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) | pattern of when people become depressed, not affected by their lives but by the environment, tend to become depressed in winter months |
| Bipolar Disorder | alternate between depression and an unreasonably optimistic state of mania |
| Mania | extremely happy, energetic |
| Depression | sad, loss of interest |
| Type I | as simple as one manic episode |
| Type II | in between mania and depression, mania mixed with depression |
| Cyclothymic Disorder | less sever but longer lasting than bipolar (two years) |
| Dissociative Disorders | the sense of self has become separated from previous memories, thoughts or feelings |
| Dissociative Amnesia | loss of memory in reaction to a traumatic event, opposite of PTSD |
| Dissociative Fugue | loss of identity and travel to a new location, memory and identity loss, |
| Depersonalization | you feel separated from your body, in a dream watching your body do something |
| Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) | an individual experiences two or more distinct and alternating personalities, |
| Somatoform Disorders | psychological disorder manifesting itself physically |
| Somatization Disorders | symptoms in different parts of your body, body issues with pain |
| Pain Disorder | experience pain in one or more areas that cannot be explained medically, just pain |
| Conversion Disorder | for no reason, there is a lack of functioning in motor and sensory areas |
| Hypochondriasis | believe that you are sick when you aren’t, over analyze symptoms of your body |
| Body Dysmorphic Disorder | you fixate on an aspect of your body and believe it is ugly or deformed, you don’t want people to see you |
| Personality Disorders | inflexible and lasting behavior patterns that disrupt social functioning |
| Avoidant Personality Disorder | fearful of being rejected, relationships are hard to form, avoid social situations |
| Dependent Personality Disorder | behave in clingy or submissive ways, display a strong need for others to take care of them |
| Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) | similar to OCD, very controlling, perfectionist, must do things a certain way or follow a certain schedule |
| Schizoid Personality Disorder | detached from social relationships, prefer to be alone |
| Schizotypal Personality Disorder | very strange to the point people don’t want to be around you, strange beliefs |
| Paranoid Personality Disorder | deep distrust or other people, very suspicious, think people are always out to get them |
| Histrionic Personality Disorder | main goal is to get attention, do things to draw attention to themselves, mostly females |
| Narcissistic Personality Disorder | self absorbed to an extreme, surround themselves with people that admire them |
| Borderline Personality Disorder | instability of emotions, self image, behavior, and relationships; afraid of being alone |
| Antisocial Personality Disorder | show a lack of conscious for wrong doing and lack of respect for the rights of others, usually men |
| Factitious Disorder | faking |
| Munchausen Syndrome (and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy) | fake symptoms or make yourself sick for attention, or make someone else sick for attention |
| Schizophrenia | characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions |
| Positive Symptoms | in excess of normal functioning |
| Negative Symptoms | lack of normal functioning |
| Hallucinations | false perceptions; senses are activated but there is nothing to activate them |
| Delusions | false beliefs, irrational, no basis in reality |
| Grandeur | you are more important than you actually are |
| Persecution | people are out to get you |
| Sin/Guilt | you are responsible for something that is actually out of your control |
| Control/Influence | being controlled by an outside force |
| Reference | something is referring to you, something was meant to be seen by you |
| Blunted Affect | show little emotion |
| Flat Affect | show no emotion |
| Inappropriate Affect | inappropriate emotions at inappropriate times |
| Loose Word Associations | don’t filter what should and shouldn’t be said, have thoughts that aren’t associated with the conversation |
| Neologisms | new words or languages made up to replace other words, similar to a real words meaning |
| Clanging | new words formed by sound |
| Word Salad | take words, put them together, mix them; nothing makes sense |
| Acute Schizophrenia | comes out of nowhere, sever but doesn’t last long |
| Chronic Schizophrenia | long lasting, gradually gets worse, genetic link |
| Catatonic | don’t move unless you move them, like a Barbie doll |
| Paranoid | delusions of persecution and grandeur, must have hallucinations and delusions |
| Disorganized | bizarre behavior; disorganized languages and emotions |
| Undifferentiated | symptoms that don’t clearly fir one of the other types |
| Residual | you have schizophrenia but don’t show symptoms, only negative symptoms show |
| Dopamine Hypothesis | could be caused by too much dopamine |
| Brain Structure (Ventricles) | ventricles are larger, less brain |
| Chromosomal or Genetic Abnormalities | genes and chromosomes cause schizophrenia |
| Trephination | drill holes in the skull to release bad spirits |
| Philippe Pinel | france, medical model, treat individuals instead of separating them from society |
| Dorothea Dix | take mentally ill out of prisons and put them in institutions where they can receive treatment |
| Deinstitutionalization | close institutions so people can be part of society, instead they can take medication |
| Primary Prevention | aimed at everyone, make sure no one is affected by disorders |
| Secondary Prevention | aimed at people who are at risk |
| Tertiary Prevention | aimed at people who already have a disorder, prevent it from getting worse |
| Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud) | stereotypical therapy, lie on a couch and don’t face therapist, things from your past made you have a problem, unconscious motives |
| Hypnosis | doesn’t work well, not everyone |
| Free Association | you start talking to see what comes to mind, these things give insight to unconscious |
| Dream Analysis | analyze dreams to see what is in unconscious |
| Manifest Content | what your dream was |
| Latent Content | meaning of your dream |
| Resistance | blocking from conscious of anxiety laden material, denial, you don’t want to confront it |
| Interpretation | the analysts noting supposed dream meanings, gives insight |
| Transference | patient transfers emotions from a different relationship to the therapist |
| Psychodynamic Therapy | similar to Freud but not as intense, not as long, sitting facing each other |
| Humanistic Therapy (Carl Rogers) | the potential for self fulfillment already exists |
| Self Actualization | point of becoming your best, help boost self esteem |
| Non Deterministic | just because something happened to you in the past doesn’t mean it will affect you later, free will to change how it is |
| Non Directive | person doing therapy directs less, person receiving therapy directs more |
| Client Centered Therapy | therapist uses techniques within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate the clients growth |
| Active Listening | listener echoes, restates, and clarifies |
| Paraphrasing | therapist uses words of the client to summarize the conversation, restate what they say |
| Clarifying | therapist encourages clients to say more by asking questions |
| Reflecting Feelings | therapist mirrors the feelings of the client |
| Behavioral Therapy | applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behavior, goal is to figure out how we learned something then unlearn it |
| Counterconditioning | teaches us to associate new responses to places or things that in the past have triggered unwanted behaviors, learn the opposite of what you know |
| Aversive Conditioning | associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior |
| Exposure Therapies | expose someone to what they are afraid of so they have reduced anxiety |
| Systematic Desensitization | associate pleasant relaxed stated with gradually increasing anxiety triggered stimuli |
| Progressive Relaxation | teach someone to relax |
| Anxiety Hierarchy | apply relaxation to low anxiety situations then work your way up to high anxiety situations |
| Flooding | skip taking steps, go straight to high anxiety situations |
| Token Economy | modify behavior by giving rewards for desired behavior |
| Social Skills Training (Modeling) | combination of watching someone do something then imitating it, then reinforcing it |
| Cognitive Therapy (Aaron Beck) | teaches people new ways of thinking and acting, stop irrational thinking |
| Cognitive Behavior Therapy | combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy |
| Rational Emotive Therapy (Albert Ellis) | change irrational thought process in a confrontational way, therapist will yell at you |
| Group Therapy | good for showing you aren’t alone, share ides |
| Family Therapy | views an individual’s unwanted behavior as influenced or directed at family members |
| Self Help Groups | meet with others that have the same disorder |
| Biomedical Therapy | involves changing the brains functioning by using prescribed drugs, electrocompulsive therapy, or surgery |
| Anti Anxiety Drugs (Anxiolytics) | treat people with anxiety disorders or suffering from stress, boost GABA, works right away |
| Anti Depressant Drugs | treat major depression, boost serotonin, takes about a month to work |
| Anti Psychotic Drugs (Neuroleptics) | primarily treats schizophrenia and bipolar, reduce leves of delusions and hallucinations |
| Brain Stimulation | stimulate the brain |
| Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) | electric currents are sent through the brain |
| Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) | use magnets |
| Psychosurgery | cut the brain |
| Lobotomy | try to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients, cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to deep emotional centers |
| Corpus Callosotomy | cut the corpus callosom to prevent seizures |
| Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) | moving your eyes around by thinking about something negative, your brain will process those thoughts differently |
| Therapeutic Touch Therapy | move their energy around my placing your hands over their body |
| Light Exposure Therapy | sit in front of a light machine |