clinical - psychosis and cbt

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  • Created on: 27-04-17 18:59
what does schizophrenia generally refer to?
psychiatric diagnosis in which loss of contact w/ reality generally assumed, severe psychological distress & a contested construct
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what has been associated with a risk for psychosis?
income inequality, ethnic minority status, sexual minority status
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what's the largest incidence of reported verbal hallucinations in college students?
35-40% and more likely to happen to those who are in isolation
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what happens to speech muscles when experiencing hallucinations?
small activation of the speech muscles, same movements people use when doing silent speaking
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what is the content of voices like?
often relate to childhood trauma and structural inequalities in society
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what did the study show about people living with voices happily'/
170 people with psychosis, 40% of those did not need help
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what is intersectionality?
intersecting axes of privelege, power and oppression. locate your own sectionality - slightly low as female, priveleged cos white etc. affects psychosis
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what are seats of privelege?
social identities that enable indivs to access and benefit from variety of community resources - valued or priveleged in broad western culture
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what are seats of oppression?
refer to social identities that may present barriers in western society and lead to experiences of discrimination or disadvantage. less valued and respected.
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what are the positives of intersectionality?
conceptual & analytical tool, considers meaning & consequences of multiple social identities, how these categories are assoc. w/ wellbeing, expands analysis from indiv to social determinants, capture inequalities
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why is intersectionality looked in to when studying psychosis?
many ppl have interpersonal relationship w/ personified voices, distress assoc w/ dom/subord relationship w/ voices, power imbalance mimics powerlessness indivs exp in real world. social inequ treated as psychosis risk
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what study looked in to gender and psychosis?
7 women, 4 men hearing voices within last 6 months. in depth interviews of the 30-60y.o.
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what 4 types of beliefs are important for understanding responses to voices?
identity of voice, purpose (trying to hurt or harm?), omnipotence (power) & consequences of obedience and disobedience
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what are some qualitative examples from the study?
woman heard voices of her children crying, perhaps due to her husband who had been sexually abusing her and physically abusing her children. felt tremendous guilt cos of this
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what do most voices say?
target particular areas of vulnerability/[perceived self discrepancies esp. those related to racialised/gendered conditions of worth that both men and women felt werent living up to
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how should you ask someone in order to help with their psychosis?
not what is wrong with you but what has happened to you
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what did read and morrison say about trauma and psychosis?
failing to assess for trauma in indivs will impede installation of appropriate treatment strategies and therefore prolong distress unnecessarily
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what is the simple CBT approach to psychosis?
assessment (data collection) -> case formulation (hypothesis) -> intervention/plan
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what is the goal of CBT?
not to eliminate voices. understand the meaning to the person and associated responses, thereby increasing sense of power and reducing distress
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what are the 3 levels of cognition (social context)
automatic thoughts (he's staring at my fat thighs), condional belief (if im not thin then i'm inadequate), core beliefs (i'm inadequate)
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what is a delusion?
belief at extreme end of continuum of consensual agreement. not categorically different from overvalued ideas or normal beliefs.
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