Dysfunctional behaviour
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- Created on: 12-11-13 16:40
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- Dysfunctional behaviour
- diagnosis
- DSM
- Axis 1- mental disorder? Axis 2- personality disorder? Axis 3- medical history Axis 4- social and environmental aspects Axis 5- global assessment of functioning
- more wholistic
- doesn't look at causal factors
- 16 categories including sexual and gender identity disorders
- ICD
- looks at causal factors
- 11 categories
- doesn't categorize schizophrenia
- Biases
- subjective process
- cultural relativism
- cooper (1972) - usa more 2x mor likely to diagnose schizophrenia
- uk more likely to diagnose depression or mania
- Ford and Widger (1989) - women more like to be diagnosed with histrionic personality disorder
- DSM
- explanations
- biological
- rooted in the medical model
- physical cause i.e. genetics
- Gottesman adoption study- children have a high chance of developing schizophrenia even if they are taken out of a schizophrenic environment.
- twins have a higher concordance rate for example if one identical twin is schizophrenic there is a 58% chance the other will be.
- behaviourist
- main assumption- everything can be learnt/ unlearnt
- classical conditioning e.g. Little Albert study by Watson.
- operant conditioning
- social learning theory
- + simple and testable explanations +hopeful
- -reductionist, dehumanizing and mechanistic -conditioning can not cure all disoder
- cognitive
- faulty heuristics
- faulty thinking patterns
- beck (1967) kept a dairy and results showed they placed more blame and responsibility on themselves. had lower self esteem.
- all of these are faulty heuristics (cognitive distortions)
- biological
- treatments
- behavioural - little lucy study by Mcgrath. scared of unexpected noises.fear thermometer went down to 3.
- - unethical -not a representative sample -social desirability children have a tendency to want to please adults.
- + cured her of a phobia +parents gave consent
- cognitive- rational emotive therapy
- A- activating events
- B- beliefs
- C- consequence
- biological - Karp (1995) compared drug treatment with therapy, both and placebo.
- attrition rate is high for drug treatment
- "two treatments isn't often better then one"
- behavioural - little lucy study by Mcgrath. scared of unexpected noises.fear thermometer went down to 3.
- diagnosis
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