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Mental health professionals evalutate psychological disorders based on:
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Life functioning
Personal discomfort
Personal characteristics
"Fun Dis-co Car"
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What is necessary before diagnosis begins?
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Qualitative differences in:
Life functioning
Personal discomfort
Personal characteristics
(Must see multiple issues in all 3)
"Quack Aflack Car ..."
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Psychological issues in the middle ages were dealt with by:
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Burning the inflicted to death or placing them in prison-like institutions
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Describe Systems Approach
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Biological, psychological, and social risk factors that combine to produce psychological disorders.
*Similar to having pre-disposition for bad cholesterol
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What is a phobia?
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Paralyzing fear
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A person that experiences disturbing thoughts despite their attempts to stop them. "Pre-occupied".
What are the causes and treatments for this disorder?
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OCD
Causes" Genetic pre-disposition, autonomic nervous system disorder, fear became a phobia.
Treatment: Systematic desensitization, Classical conditioning to "un-learn".
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Which category of disorders do these fall under:
Phobias, panic disorders, OCD, OCT, Dissociative, Multiple Personality Disorders, Dependent Personality Disorders.
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Anxiety disorders
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What is fear without reasonable cause?
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Panic disorder
*no REASONABLE cause
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Which disorder is this:
Extreme suspiciousness and complex delusions. More coherent than others in this disorder group. Like in "Beautiful Mind".
What causes this disorder?
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PARANOID Schitzophrenia
Causes: Genetic. Poor dendrite communication in hippocampus, excessive dopamine.
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Which disorder is this?
Instability in self image, mood and interpersonal relationships. Impulsive, destructive, individual just doesn't care.
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Borderline personality disorder.
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Which model includes the expression of unconscious conflicts traced to childhood.
Weak evidence to support this theory .... Why?
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Psychoanalytic model
Cannot be tested
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Which model does this describe:
Issues because of learned behavior. These issues can be "un-learned". Keywords:
Self-fulfilling prophecy, anxieties, fears, sexual mal-adaptations.
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Cognitive model
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Which model does this describe:
Physiological issues from the nervous system, glands, genetics, neurotransmitters. Include:
Anxiety, depression, schitzophrenia
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Biological model
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What are the three models we learned about?
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Psychoanalytic
Biological
Cognitive
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What is the most well known category of disorders?
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Mood disorders
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