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| What percentage of us will experience a mental illness our selves? |
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| What percentage of us will directly experience or know someone who experiences a mental illness in Canada? |
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| What is a benefit of the medical model? |
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| Improved treatment, more sympathy, less fear |
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| Critics of the medical model |
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- Thomas Sczaz
- Deviation from a social norm
- A problem in living
- But not a medical problem
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- Deviation from cultural standards
- Emotional distress
- Self-destructive or harmful to others
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| What are some controversies with the DSM? |
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- FUnding (i.e. pharmaceutical are funding it)
- Labeling (sometimes unclear)
- Culturaly biased
- More medical and less psychological
- Distinction between disorders is often unclear
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| How many axes does the DSM consider when making a diagnosis? |
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| What do the first 2 axes in DSM diagnosis mean? |
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Actual diagnosis
- Axis 1: Clinical symptoms
- Axis 2:Personality disorders and mental retardation
Traits originating before 18 years old (reflects longstanding problems) |
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| What do axes 3-5 in the DSM measure? |
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Extra information that needs to be considered
- Axes 3: General medical conditions
- Axes 4: psychological and environmental problems
- Global Assessment of Functioning
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| Group of disorders marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and deterioration of adaptive behaviour (split mind but not multiple personality) |
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| What does paranoid schizophrenia include? |
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| What does catatonic schizophrenia include? |
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| Striking motor disturbances |
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| What does disorganized schizophrenia include? |
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| Extreme deterioration of adaptive behaviour |
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| What is the cause of schizophrenia according to the neurochemical model? |
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| What is the brain abnormality that is said to lead to schizophrenia? |
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| What are personality disorders marked by? |
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- Extreme, inflexible personaity traits that cause subjective distress
- Deviated from cultural expectations
- Stable over time
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| What is anti-social personality disorder? |
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| Disregard for and violation of the rights of others |
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| Which is in the DSM, anti-social personality disorder or psychopathy? |
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| Anti-social personality disorder |
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| Inherited temperament differences from normal people |
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| More normal temperament, differences reflect environmental differences |
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| Any behvaior or emotional state that causes an individual great suffering, is self-destructive, seriously impairs the person's ability to work or get along with others or endangers others or the community |
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| Psychological test used to infer a person's motives, conflicts and unconscious dynamics on the basis of the person's interpretations of ambiguous stimuli |
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| How is the reliability and validity of projective tests? |
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| Standardized objective questionnaires requiring written responses; they typically include scales in which people are asked to rate themselves |
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| How does the reliability and validity of objective tests compare to that of projective tests? |
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| What is a limitation of objective tests? |
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- Fail to account for social, ecomonic, etc. differences
- False positives
- Inappropriately used by untrained people
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| Generalized anxiety disorder |
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| A continuous state of anxiety marked by feelings of worry and dread, apprehension, difficulties in concentration and signs of motor tension |
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| Post Traumatic Stress Disorder |
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| An anxiety disorder in which a person who has experienced a traumatic or life-threatening event has symptoms suh as psychic numbing, reliving trauma and increased physiological arousal |
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| Anxiety disorder in which a person experiences recurring panic attacks, periods of intense fear and feelings of impending doom or death, accompanied by physiological symptoms such as rapid heart rate and dizziness |
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| An exaggerated, unrealistic fear of a specific situation, activity or object |
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| A set of phobias, ofter set off by panic attacks, involving the basic fear of being away from a safe place or person |
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| What is the fear of fears? |
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| Obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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| An anxiety disorder in which a person feels trapped in repetitive, persistent thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive ritualized behaviours (compulsions) designed to reduce anxiety |
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| Depletion of seratonin in prefrontal cortex is associated with |
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| Which sex does major depression occur more in? |
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| Women, almost twice as much |
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| A modd disorder involving disturbances in emotion (excessive sadness), behaviour (loss of interest in usual activities), cognition (thoughts of hopelessness) and body function (poor or loss of apetite) |
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| A mood disorder in which episodes of both depression and mania occur |
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| What are the gene and chemical associated with depression? |
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| Paranoid personality disorder |
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| A disorder characterized by unreasonable, excessive suspiciousness and mistrust and irrational feelings of being persecuted by others |
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| Vulnerability-stress models |
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| Approaches that emphasize how individual vulnerabilities interact with external stresses or circumstances to produce mental disorders |
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| Narcistic personality disorder |
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| A disorder characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance and self-absorbance |
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| Borderline personality disorder |
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| A disorder characterized by intense but unstable relationships, a fear of abandonment by others, an unrealistic self-image and emotional volatility |
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| A personality disorder characterized by a lack of remorse, empathy, anxiety and other social emotions; the use of deceit and manipulation and impulsive thrill seeking |
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| Antisocial personality disorder: |
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| Characterized by a life long pattern of irresponsible, antisocial behaviour such as law breaking, violence and other impulsive reckless acts Not all people with ASPD are psychopaths |
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| Impaired frontal0lobe functioning is associated with |
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| Dissociative identity disorder |
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| A controversial disorder marked by the apparent appearance within one person of two or more distinct personalities, each wihts its own name and traits (formerly multiple personality disorder) |
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| Sociocognitive explanation of dissociative identity disorder |
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| Extreme form of the ability we all have to present different aspects of our personality to different people |
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| A psychological disorder marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized and incoherent speeh, inappropriate behaviour and cognitive impairments |
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| Mental condition involving distorted perceptions and irrational behaviour |
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| Withdrawl from the world and sitting for hours without moving |
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| What brain change is associated with schizophrenia? |
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| What neurotransmitters are linked with schizophrenia? |
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| Glutamate, seratonin and dopamine |
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| True or false, damage to the fetal brain increases the likelihood of schizophrenia? |
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