Psychopathology
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- Created on: 16-04-17 18:51
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- Psycho-pathology
- Definitions of abnormality
- Deviation from social norms
- Norms are expected ways of behaving in society
- Failure to function adequatly
- When someone can no longer cope with the demands of everyday life
- Statistical infrequency
- Any relatively usual behaviour can be considered 'normal' differing behaviour is abnormal
- Deviation from ideal mental health
- Jahoda's criteria for mental well-being: Self actualisation; Accurate perception of reality; Positive attitudes to self; Personal autonomy; Resistance to stress; Adapt to environment
- Deviation from social norms
- Phobias
- Characteristics
- Emotional
- Anxiety: Unreasonable emotional responses
- Behavioural
- Panic; Avoidance; Endurance
- Cognitive
- Selective attention to phobic stimulus; Irrational beliefs; Cognitive distortions
- Emotional
- two-process model
- Acquired by classical conditioning , maintained by operant conditioning
- Systematic desensitisation
- Getting the patient relaxed in the presence of the phobic stimulus
- Flooding
- Exposing the patient directly to the phobic stimulus
- Characteristics
- OCD
- Characteristics
- Emotional
- Anxiety/ distress; Depression; Guilt/disgust
- Behavioural
- Compulsive behaviour; Avoidance
- Cognitive
- Recurrent and persistent thoughts; Attentional bias; Catastrophic thinking
- Emotional
- Genetic explanations
- Candidate genes; Polygenic; Different types
- Drug therapy
- SSRI
- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibiter
- SSRI
- Neural explanations
- Serotonin
- Characteristics
- Depression
- Characteristics
- Behavioural
- Reduced Activity levels; Disruption to sleep/eating; Aggression/ selfharm
- Emotional
- Lowered mood; Anger; Lowered self esteem
- Cognitive
- Poor concentration; Dwelling on the negative; Absolutist thinking
- Behavioural
- Beck's negative triad
- Automatic negative conditions that depression individuals are prone to
- Ellis's ABC model
- Activating event; Beliefs; Consequence
- CBT
- Identify negative thoughts; Challenge negative thoughts; Change attitudes
- Characteristics
- Definitions of abnormality
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