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Mental Health workers view psychological disorders as .... ... .....?
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As persistently harmful thoughts, feelings, and actions.
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When do psychiatrists and psychologists label a behavior as a disorder?
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When the behavior is deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional.
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What are the two central models?
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Biopsychosocial Perspective and the Medical model.
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Explain Biopsychosocial Perspective
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Assumes that biological, socio-cultural, and psychological factors combine and interact to produce psychological disorders
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Briefly explain Medical Model
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Focuses on cause and development of disorder.
Identifying and distinguishing one disease from another. Treatment and Pronosis
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What is DSM or what does it stand for
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-American Psychiatric Association-300 different disorders-"The Bible"
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The five axes
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1. clinical syndrome
2. personality disorder or mental retardaion
3. general medical condition
4. psychosocial or environmental
5. Global Assessment
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What is prevalence?
What is incidence?
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The number of people who currently have the condition.
The annual number of people who have a case of the condition.
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For Mental disorders which measurement do we use?
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Prevalence-lifetime
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Types of Psychological Disorder-can coexist(4)
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Adjustment Disorder-mental emotional action to an event that happened in less than a month
Anxiety Disorder-post-traumatic, ocd, bipolar
Cognitive Disorders- Dementia, delirium,
Developmental Disorders-learning disorders, language disorders
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More Disorders(4 more)
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Mental Disorders-epilepsy
Mood Disorders-depression
Personality Disorders-
Psychotic Disorders-schizophrenia
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More Disorders-(4 more again)
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Dissociative Disorders-Amnesia
Eating Disorders-bulimia
Factitious Disorders-fake wounds, making up stuff
Impulse Control Disorders-gambling
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What are Depressive Disorders Symptoms
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Feeling sad, down, and blue for two weeks
Lack of interest in pleasurable things-apathy
Significant weight gain or loss
Fatigue
Insomnia or to much sleeping
concentration
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What gender is more susceptible to depression
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Women of course
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When does men's high suicide rate occur?
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Increases in late adulthood
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