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| branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases |
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| how many people have the disease/ how widespread it is. The total number of cases |
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| the occurrence, rate, and frequency of a disease. Rate of occurrence of new cases. |
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| conducted by behaviorist John Watson and Rosalie Raynor. |
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| Global Assessment of Functioning |
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| the functional deterioration of a previously working structure or system (aka deterioration of mental health) |
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| Psychosis a term for the mental state involving the loss of contact from reality, causing the deterioration of normal social functioning. Neurosis refers to mental stress that does not prevent rational thought or daily functioning |
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| outstanding figure in Islamic medicine. Was called Prince of Physicians |
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| Doctor of the Catholic Church. She was a writer of the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer. |
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| a French physician who was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral therapy. |
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| defined mania and depression as phases of a single illness in modern psychiatry |
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| type of study in psychology that attempts to replicate or simulate, under controlled conditions, a situation analogous to real life. Ex done by Mineka and Cook with snakes and monkeys |
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| categorial diagnostic system |
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| (DSM) assumes each personality disorder is a separate and distinct category. |
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| father of the stress research field (alarm, resistance, exhaustion) |
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| Psychophysiological Disorders |
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| : illnesses that result from an interaction of psychosocial and organic factors. Include ulcers, asthma, insomnia, chronic headaches, hypertension (chronic high blood pressure), and coronary heart disease. |
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| PNI (psychoneuroimmunology) |
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| the study of the connections among stress, the body’s immune system, and illness. |
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| an adverse effect or complication resulting from medical treatment or advice. |
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| hospital-acquired infection |
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| dissociative and conversion symptoms were formerly considered part of one disorder (Freud) |
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| severe form of depression, most people that are hospitalized for it has this. |
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| when dysthymic disorder leads to major depressive disorder, the sequence is called this. |
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| running as a treatment for depression: exercise helps for people w/ moderate depression. Results show that depression causes sedentary lifestyle, not the other way around. |
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| coexisting of opposing attitudes or feelings, such as love and hate. |
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| distinction between traits: cardinal, main, secondary |
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| detachment from others, less emotional expression. Little pleasure in activities, indifferent to praise/criticism, solitary |
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| discomfort in close relationships, distortions in cognition and perception, excentric behavior, odd beliefs (not bad enough to be a delusion), you think things refer to you when they don’t, lacks close friends, anxious in social interactions, difficulty concentrating. |
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| Dialectic Behavior Therapy |
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| such “high self-esteem,” but feels inferior, focused on being perfect (ex. Hate age), small criticism and they get very deflated. |
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| overdramatic attention seeking behavior, theatrical , emotional speech w/o substance, center of attention, feels relationships are more intimate then they are. |
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| William Masters and Virginia Johnson |
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| hypoactive sexual desire disorder |
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| a disorder marked by a lack of interest in sex and hence a low level of sexual activity |
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| a disorder characterized by an aversion to and avoidance of genital sexual interplay. May result from sexual abuse |
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| female sexual arousal disorder |
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| women don’t get physically aroused although she wants to have sex. |
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| genital pain associated with intercourse |
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| involuntarily muscle contraction to prevent penetration. Often from trauma. Treatment involves using bigger and bigger vaginal diodes. |
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| a marked lack of expressed emotions |
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| a decrease in speech or speech content |
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| diathesis-stress hypothesis |
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| schizophrenia is caused by a genetic vulnerability coupled with environmental and psychosocial stressors |
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| distinguished “loss of the mind” from late life dementia. He called schizophrenia dementia praecox, which seemed to be general confusion. |
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| termed the term schizophrenia |
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| a sudden onset of psychotic symptoms, which may include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech or behavior, or catatonic behavior. Is short and non-reoccurring. |
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| Schizophreniform disorder |
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| a mental disorder diagnosed when symptoms of schizophrenia are present for a significant portion of the time within a one-month period, but signs of disruption are not present for the full six months required for the diagnosis of schizophrenia |
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| is a neurological disorder caused by a lack of thiamine (vitamin B1) in the brain. Its onset is linked to chronic alcohol abuse and/or severe malnutrition. Memory loss involved |
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| a memory disturbance characterized by information that appears to be made up rather than true.[1] Confabulation is distinguished from lying as there is no intent to deceive and the person is unaware the information is false |
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| an acute episode of delirium that is usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol, first described in 1813 |
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