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Define Psychopathology What does abnormal Psychology include? |
Field concerning nature and the development of abnormal behaviour, thoughts, and feelings? - Statistical infrequency, violation of norms, personal suffering, disability/dysfunction, unexpectedness |
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Place the historical order of how we treat psychopathology what was involved? |
Early Demonology - Exorcism, Trepanning Somatogenesis - 3 mental disease categories (mania, melancholia, phrentittis), 4 fluids (blood, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm) Dark Ages - Witches |
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How did Asylum's develop? |
Leprossium's converted to refuge's for captivity of mentally ill Mental diseases caused by excess blood and treated by sucking blood and being reightened |
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What did Dorothea Dix do? |
- Was appalled by prison conditions so she helped build 32 state hospitals that would take people that private hospitals wouldn't - Cause psychologists not to get paid enough and so they switched to medical school |
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What were the two distinctive trends for mentals in canada? |
1. Provisions for emntally ill and physically ill seperated 2. Institution and community are two seperate entities |
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Define transtittutionalization, forensic hospital, psychiatric hospital, and community treatment orders |
More care in psychiatric units of general hospitals than in psychiatric hospitals themselves People arrested/judged awaiting trial or accquited of crime because not responsible People who need care and cannot be managed in the community Conditions mentally ill person live in community |
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What was found in contemporary thought? |
Our brain doesn't actually mimic monkey - Classification system for biological nature of illness Syndrome: Group of symptoms Dementia Praecox: Psychizophrenia |
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How was mental retardation identified? |
Degenarative changes in brain cells - Syndrome of steadying deteriotiation involving impairments both mental and physical - Infection of body by minute organisms |
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What did franz mesner find? What did he start? |
Histerical disorders caused by universal magnetic fluid in body (we affect each other) Hynotising |
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What did Jean martin Charcot do? |
Study hysterical states (paralysis, blindness, deaf) - Found that he could hypnotize women into giving psychological symptoms so he switched to physiological |
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What did Bruer and the Charthatic method do? |
Hypnotise people to give them catharis Relieving emotional catastrophe and releasing emotional tension caused by suppressed events |
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What are the 2 myths of public perception? Define self-stigma |
1. People who have mental disabilities are unstable and dangerous 2. People can't be cured and brought back to society Tendency to internalize mental health stigma and see oneself in more negative terms as result of psychological problem |
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Define commorbid Give brief examples of stats |
3+ disorders - Women more likely to seek help - 1/5 people require medical services - Young adults need help - 50% of people who need mental health sevices do not engage in them |
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What are the 3 most robust predictors of not seeking help? Define Perfectionist Self-Presentation |
1. Self-stigma 2. Negative beliefs about anticipated benefits 3. Low levels of trait self-disclosure need to seem perfect and not tell others about imperfections |
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What are the consequences of deinstitutionalization? |
Homelessness Jailing of the mentally ill |
