Mental Disease

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What is the definition of psychotherapy?
Psyche(soul, mind and spirit) and therapeia(healing, treatment) healing the mind
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What does talking treatment provide?
a regular time and space for you to talk about your troubles and explore difficut feelings with a trained professional
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Who introduced counselling?
Carl Rogers in 1940s
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What are three factors of counselling?
Short term, shallower level of experience and humanistic tradition
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What are three factors of psychotherapy?
Long term, deeper level of experience, psychoanalytical tradition
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Are there similarities between both counselling and psychotherapy?
yes
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Do more women or men consult a consellor or psychotherapist?
More women
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What did Singleton et el do?
They found that 1 in 4 British adults experienced at least one mental disorder in any one year
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What did the World Health support find out?
450 million people world wide have mental disorder
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What is the definition of a mental disorder by mind?
Mental health problems can affect the way you think, feel and behave
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What is another definition of a mental disorder?
is a syndrome characterised by clinically significant distubance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation or behaviour
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How are mental disorders identified?
Reported symptoms of feelings and thoughts, observation of behaviours
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What is the first of the four Ds?
Deviance
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What does this mean?
Does the person think, feel or act differently?
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What is the judgement affected by?
Social/cultural norms, characteristics of individual, context
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What is the 2nd D?
Distress
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What does this mean?
Are thoughts, feelins, or behaviours causing distress of the person
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What is the 3rd D and what does it mean?
Dysfunction, do the thoughts, feelings an behaviours interfere wth daily functioning
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What is the 4th D?
Danger
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what is the definition of Prevalence?
Proportion of the population who have a specific disorder at/in a given time
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What is point prevalence?
At a specific time
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What is period prevalence?
at any point in a given time period
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What is lifetime prevalence?
at some point in life up to the time of assessment
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What is an incidence?
the number of new cases of a disorder arising over a given period
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What are features of Anxiety of disorder?
excessive fear and anxiety and related behavioural distubances
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What is a constant fear and anxiety?
emotional response to immenent threat, anticipation to future threat
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What is an individual disorder?
differ in terms of trigger
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What is general anxiety disorder?
Excessive or ongoing wrry about multiple events, difficulty controlling worry
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What is social anxiety disorder?
Persistent fear and anxiety about social situations, fear of negative rejection/ evaluation
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What is a phobia?
Persistent fear of object or situation
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What are features of OCD?
presence of obsessions, unwanted or intrusive thoughts, and compulsions, reptitive behaviours or mental acts
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What is depression?
Depressed mood, lack f interest, reduced energy, marked tiredness
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What is the mood of a depressive?
mood generally unrelated to circumstance
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What is the age of onset of a depressant?
20 years
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What is the average length of a depressive episode
6 months
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What is bipolar disorder?
cyclical mood disorder - experiencing feelings both of depression and mania
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