Psychopathology

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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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Depression
      • Characteristics
        • Emotional
          • Loss of interest in activities
          • Anger
        • Behavioural
          • Reduced or increased appetite
          • Insomnia or ypersomnia
        • Cognitive
          • Negative and irrational thoughts
          • Absolutist thinking
      • 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
  • When behaviours are mathematically rare
  • Behaviour that doesn't fit with society's norms
  • ANXIETY RELATED CONDITION
  • SEVERE ANXIETY DISORDER

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