Psychopathology
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- Created on: 17-04-17 12:59
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- Psychopathology
- Abnormality (definitions)
- Statistical deviation
- ignores desirability behaviour
- some mental health issues are common but still thought as abnormal
- Deviation from social norms
- Has cultural relativism
- can lead to human rights abuse
- Failure to function adequately
- attempts to consider patient's perspective
- subjective judgments
- Deviation from ideal mental health
- provides detailed explination
- sets unrealistically high standard from ideal mental health
- Statistical deviation
- OCD
- Symptoms
- obsessions (internal) that are uncontrollable and persistant
- Compulsions (external) that are repetitive physical actions to releave anxiety
- Characteristics
- catastrophic thoughts
- behavioural compulsions
- emotional upset
- Symptoms
- Phobias
- Types
- Specific (certain objects, animals)
- Social (humiliation)
- Agoraphobia (public places)
- Characteristics
- Behavioural (panic, avoidance)
- emotional (anxiety, over emotional response)
- cognitive (selective attention, irrational beliefs)
- Treatments
- Flooding
- cheap
- ethical, stresses patients
- Can be quick
- can't be used for all phobias
- Systematic desensitisation (hierarchy pyramid)
- considered best for phobias
- main form of treatment
- ethics, causes anxiety
- Flooding
- Types
- Depression
- Characteristics
- Emotional
- Loss of interest in activities
- Anger
- Behavioural
- Reduced or increased appetite
- Insomnia or ypersomnia
- Cognitive
- Negative and irrational thoughts
- Absolutist thinking
- Emotional
- Explinations
- Beck's negative triad
- Ellis' ABC model
- Cognitive Treatments
- Targeting faulty thinking
- cheap
- not 100% effective
- could be placebo
- Ellis' rational emotional behavioural therapy
- challenges irrational thoughts
- A B C D E step process
- Targeting faulty thinking
- Characteristics
- Abnormality (definitions)
- When behaviours are mathematically rare
- Behaviour that doesn't fit with society's norms
- ANXIETY RELATED CONDITION
- SEVERE ANXIETY DISORDER
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