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| devastating psychotic disorder that may involve characteristic disturbances in thinking (delusions), perceptions (hallucinations), speech, emotions, and behavior. |
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| Paranoid type of schizophrenia |
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Type of schizophrenia in which symptoms primarily involve delusion and hallucinations; speech and motor and emotional behavior remain relatively in relatively intact
-preoccupation with one or more delusions or frequent auditory hallucinations
-none of the following is prominent: disorganized speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior, or flat or inappropriate affect |
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| Disorganized type of schizophrenia |
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type of schizophrenia featuring disrupted speech and behavior, disjointed delusions and hallucinations and silly or flat affect
-disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, flat or inappropriate affect
-not catatonic |
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| Catatonic type of schizophrenia |
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type of schizophrenia in which motor disturbances (rigidity, agitation, and odd mannerism) predominate
-motoric immobility as evidenced by catalepsy (waxy flexibility) or stupor
-excessive motor activity (apparently purposeless and not influenced by external stimuli)
-extreme negativism (an apparently motiveless resistance to all instructions or maintenance of a rigid posture against attempts to be moved) or mutism
-peculiarities of voluntary movements as evidenced by posturing (voluntary assumption of inappropriate or bizarre postures) stereotyped movements, prominent mannerisms, grimacing
-echolalia, echopraxia |
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| Schizophreniform disorder |
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| psychotic disorder involving symptoms of schizophrenia but lasting less than 6 months |
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| Schizo-affective disorder |
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psychotic disorder featuring symptoms of both schizophrenia and major mood disorder
-either a major depressive, manic or mixed episode concurrent with schizophrenia
-there have been delusions or hallucinations for at least 2 weeks
-not substance abuse |
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psychotic disorder featuring a persistent belief contrary to reality (delusion) but no other symptoms of schizophrenia
-non bizarre delusions |
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| developmental disorder featuring maladaptive levels of inattention, excessive activity, and impulsiveness |
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| reading, math, or written expression performance substantially below levels expected relative to the person’s age, IQ score and education |
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| progressive neurological developmental disorder featuring constant hand wringing, intellectual disability, and impaired motor skills |
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| Childhood disintegrative disorder |
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| pervasive developmental disorder involving severe regression in language, adaptive behavior and motor skills after a 2 to 4 year period of normal development |
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| pervasive development disorder |
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| wide ranging, significant, and long lasting dysfunctions that appear before the age of 18 |
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| pervasive developmental disorder characterized by significant impairment in social interactions and communication and restricted patterns of behavior, interest and activity |
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| pervasive developmental disorder characterized by impairments in social relationships and restricted or unusual behaviors but without language delays seen in autism |
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| a diagnosis received when one achieves a significantly below-average score on a test of intelligence and by limitations in the ability to functions in areas of daily life |
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| Developmental Psychopathology |
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| Study of how disorders arise and change with time, these changes usually follow a pattern, with the child mastering one skill before acquiring the next. This aspect of development is important because it implies that any disruption in the acquisition of early skills will by the very nature of the developmental process, also disrupt the development of later skills |
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| 3 Main Symptom Clusters of Autistic disorder |
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-Impairment in social interaction: don’t develop types of social relationships expected for their age, joint attention not present
-Impairment in Communication: 1/3 never speak, must communication is unusual, some exhibit echolalia
-Restricted Behavior, Interests and Activities: like things to stay the same |
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| Distinguish between autism and Asperger’s disorder. |
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| same as autism but without language impairment |
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| type of intellectual disability caused by a chromosomal aberration (chromosome 21) and involving characteristic physical appearance |
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| pattern of abnormality caused by a defect in the X chromosome resulting in intellectual disability, learning problems, and unusual physical characteristics |
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| mentally ill person in danger to self and or others, incarcerated within a psychiatric hospital (danger but not crime was committed) |
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| mentally ill person committed a crime is confined to an institution, a person committed a crime and happened to be mentally ill |
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| legal plea that a defendant should not be held responsible for a crime because that person was mentally ill at the time of the offense |
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| legal rather than psychological or medical concept involving both a psychological disorder and an inability to know or appreciate the wrongfulness of criminal acts |
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| “knowing right from wrong” |
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| the person was compelled to commit the criminal act |
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| “product test” not responsible if act was product of mental disease (didn’t need to know it was wrong if it was an impulse” |
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| combined M’Naghten rule with irresistible impulse |
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| Federal Insanity Defense Reform Act |
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| Unable to determine right and wrong at the time of the offense |
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| “Guilty but mentally ill”- defined |
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| plea allows a person to be found guilty but incarcerated in a mental hospital rather than a prison |
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| consequences of “guilty but mentally ill” |
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| -allows system to both treat and punish an individual, confined in mental health institute, if cured, finish out sentence in prison |
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| Difference between competency to stand trial and the insanity defense |
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-competency assess whether the person has sufficient current mental presence to stand trial
-insanity defense applies to the mental state of the person at the time of the crime |
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| justifications used for civil commitment |
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-person has mental illness and is need of treatment
-person is dangerous to himself or others
-person is unable to care for himself
-right to act against wished of an individual |
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-person not committed a crime
-emergency commitment (temporary confinement due to safety; typically for no more than few days)
-formal commitment (court ordered, involuntary confinement can be mandated for longer period of time) |
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| Tarasoff decision and its clinical importance |
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| duty to warn, mental health professionals must do everything in their power to save potential victims |
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| violence/dangerousness and mental illness |
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| most mentally ill people aren’t violent or dangerous but media portrays them that way |
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| importance of and limits to confidentiality. |
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-implies that information shared with a physician or psychologist will not be revealed to others
-privileged communication involved a relationship that is protected by law
-physician and patient
-attorney and client
-psychologist and patient |
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| limits to confidentiality |
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| -patient is going to hurt someone else or themselves |
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| right to refuse treatment & receive the least restrictive alternative |
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-be treated during incarceration
-have status reassessed during extended commitments
-refuse treatment
-be treated in least restrictive environment |
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| movement towards caring for mentally ill and mentally retarded in outpatient setting within community rather than in psychiatric hospital |
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| mental health professional’s responsibility to break confidentiality and notify the potential victim whom a client has specifically threatened |
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| Factors/ Elements of Abnormal |
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| statistically infrequent, violations of norms, personal distress, harmful dysfunction |
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| problems associated with abnormal behavior definitions |
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-based on social judgment
-interobserver agreement |
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-Axis 1: clinical disorders
-Axis 2: personality disorders and mental retardation
-Axis 3: General medical conditions
-Axis 4: Psychosocial and Environmental Problems
-Axis 5: GAF (score of 0 to 100) |
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| Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation |
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| General Medical Disorders |
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| Psychosocial and Environmental Disorders |
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| Scientist-Practitioner Model |
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-consumer of science (enhancing the practice)
-evaluator of science (determining the effectiveness of the practice)
-creator of science (conducting research that leads to new procedures useful in practice) |
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| Types of Mental Health Professionals |
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-Clinical psychologists (PhD, PsyD)
-Psychiatrists (MD)
-Social Workers (MSW)
-Counseling psychologist (MA,MS)
-Marriage and Family Therapist (MA, MS, MFT)
-Psychiatric Nurse (MN, MSN, PhD)
-Clinicians/Therapists |
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| Paradigms that explain abnormal behavior |
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-psychoanalytical: normal and abnormal behavior results from unconscious conflicts and tension
(free association, dream analysis, cathartic release)
-behavioral: focus on observable behavior, measureable, verifiable, conditioning
-cognitive: maladaptive behavior due o distorted thoughts/information processing (cognitions)
-how we behave is based on ways we THINK about environmental events |
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| Significance of Science and the Scientific Method with Abnormal Behavior |
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| must be grounded in science |
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| that biological and environmental factors come together to cause disorders |
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| Reason for Clinical Assessment |
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| to figure whats wrong with people so you can help them |
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| Attempts and Succeeds in Suicide |
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| More Women attempt more men succeed |
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| Extremely happy, energetic, makes rash decisions |
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| Not as happy as manic, doesn't impair functioning as much |
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| Beck's Theory of Depression |
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| think about things in negative sense, make worst of everything, |
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| Beck's Depressive Cognitive Triad |
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| negative about self, world, and future |
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| Distinguish between Fear, Anxiety, and Panic |
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| Present, Future, Overwhelming Reaction |
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| classical conditioning when the stimulus gets paired with anxiety, operant when the anxiety reaction reinforces itself |
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| whether or not it actually exists, and when it is formed, as well as how it can be properly diagnosed |
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| It is often done in order to escape the trauma of the traumatic experience. |
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| Personality Disorder (defined) & characteristics |
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| enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts, and are inflexible and maladaptive. |
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| Clusters of Personality Disorders |
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Cluster A- Odd Ecentric
Cluster B- Dramatic
Cluster C- Anxious or Fearful |
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| Cluster A Personality Disorders are what? |
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| paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal |
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| Cluster B Personality Disorders are what? |
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| antisocial, histrionic, naricisictic, borderline |
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| Cluster C Personality Disorders are what? |
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| obsessive compulsive, dependent, avoidant |
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| Schizophrenia and schizotypal difference? |
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| Schizotypal tend to be less severe than that of a schizophrenia diagnosed person. |
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| Difference between Anorexia Nervosa, and Bulemia, and binging & purging behavior |
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| Anorexia Nevrvosa is under 85% avg weight, Bulemia is over 85% average weight, and binging and purging is where the person will eat a massive amount of food and then puke it back up. |
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