Psychopathology
- Created by: Daniel Smart
- Created on: 26-05-18 12:28
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- Psycho-pathology
- Abnormality
- Definitions
- FFA
- Culturally relative
- Recognises patients perspective
- Subjective
- Deviation from social norms
- Culturally relative
- Deviation from ideal mental health
- Unrealistically high standard
- Statistical infrequency
- Infrequent character-istics can be positive
- Real-life application
- Not everyone benefits from a label
- FFA
- Definitions
- OCD
- Emotional - anxiety, distress, guilt and disgust.
- Behavioural - compulsions and avoidance
- Cognitive - obsessive thoughts
- Biological approach
- Explaining
- Neuro-transmitters
- Supporting evidence
- Serotonin-OCD link not unique to OCD
- Genetics
- Environment also involved
- Supporting evidence
- Neuro-transmitters
- Treating
- Drug therapy
- Effective at tackling symptoms
- Cost-effective and non-disruptive
- Side-effects
- Unreliable evidence
- Drug therapy
- Explaining
- Depression
- Emotional - lower mood, anger, absolutist thinking
- Behavioural - low activity, disrupted sleep and eating.
- Cognitive - poor concentration
- Explaining
- Eliss's ABC model
- Partial explanation
- Beck's theory
- Practical application as CBT therapy
- Supporting evidence
- Does not explain all cases of depression
- Eliss's ABC model
- Treating
- CBT
- Effective
- May not treat severe cases
- Success due to therapist-patient relationship
- Patients reluctant to explore past
- CBT
- Explaining
- Phobias
- Emotional - anxiety, fear, unreasonable responses
- Behavioural - panic and avoidance
- Explaining
- 2 process model
- Incomplete explanation
- Good explanatory power
- Not all bad experiences lead to phobias
- Doesn't consider cognitive aspects
- 2 process model
- Treating
- SD
- Suitable and acceptable to patients
- Effective
- Flooding
- Less effective for complex phobias e.g. social
- Traumatic
- SD
- Explaining
- Cognitive - selective attention to stimulus, irrational beliefs
- Abnormality
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