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Unit 7
disorders, treatment
Question | Answer |
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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 |