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Abnormal Behaviour

Atypical or uncommon

Socially unacceptable

Distressing to the person who exhibits it or to the people around them

Clinical significance

The criterion for a psychological disorder in which the behaviour being evaluated includes a measurable degree of impairment that the clinician can observe

Biopsychosocial perspective

Biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors are seen as influencing the development of the individual

Deinstitutionalization Movement

In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of patients from mental hospitals moving into community settings

Scientific Approach (19th century)

Psychiatrists and psychologists proposed behaviour models that included explanations and medically based treatments for atypical behaviour

Positive Psychology Movement

The movement views psychological disorders as difficulties that inhibit the individual's ability to achieve highly subjective well-being and feelings of fulfillment

DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

Refers to the behaviours as reflecting dysfunction in psychological, biological, or developmental processes, supporting the view of mental disorders as reflecting biopsychosocial influences

Clinical Utility

The diagnoses help guide clinicians in making decisions about treatment

Biological Contributions

Physical changes, injuries or harm caused to the body

Inherited factors that alter the function of the nervous system

Environmental influences that affect physical outcomes

Psychological Contributions

A larger constellation of factors influenced by physiological alternations interacting with exposure to certain environments

Difficulty coping with stress, illogical fears, susceptibility to uncontrollable emotions

Sociocultural Contributions

Circles of influence from friends, family, institutions, policies and culture

Interact in important ways with biological processes

Discrimination limits peoples ability to experience psychological well-being as well as effects their mental wellbeing

Hard to cope with symptoms of psycholgical disorders plus discrimination

Double-blind

An experimental procedure in which neither the person giving the treatment nor the person receiving the treatment knows whether the participant is in the experimental or control group

Evidence-based treatment

Treatment in which clients receive interventions based on the finding of controlled clinical studies

Gene- mapping

The approach used by biological researchers in which they examine variations in chromosomes and connect them to performance on psychological tests or diagnosis of specific disorders

Clinician

Child and Youth Care Practitioner
Registered Psychotherapist
Social Worker
Behavioural analysis
Psychiatris

The Role a Child and Youth Practitioner

Resource for students who need help with social and emotional learning

The Diagnostic Process

A systematic approach to classifying the disorders clinicians see in clients

Reliability

The degree to which clinicians provide diagnoses consistently across individuals who have particular set of symtoms

Validity

the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to

principal diagnosis

the disorder that is considered to be the primary reason the individual seeks professional help

differential diagnosis

a list of potential diagnoses compiled early in the assessment of the patient

Comorbid

The situation that occurs when multiple diagnostic conditions occur simultaneously within the same individual

cultural formulation

includes the clinician's assessment of the client's degree of identification with the culture of origin, the culture's beliefs about psychological disorders, the ways in which the culture interprets particular events, and the cultural supports available to the client

Modality of Treatment

Form in which the clinicians orders psychotherapy

Remission

Occurs when the individuals symptoms no longer interfere with his or her behaviour and are below those required for a DSM diagnosis

Degrees in Psychology

Psy D and Phd are doctoral degrees in psych

The 'Client' does what is treatment

"Client" reflects and collaborative process and active participation

Psychiatrists and Psychologists have what kind of degree?

Psychiatrists have a medical degree and trained in medicine. Psychologists usually possess a PhD

The diagnostic process uses a ___________ to classify clients' disorders.

systematic approach

DSM5 is split in __ sections with __ chapters

3/22

The Z codes in the ICD indicate the presence of ____ and ____ problems

presence of psychosocial and environmental problems

________ is used to find the factors that influence a patients current psychological state

Case formulation

The immediate goal of treating clients in crisis situation is to ensure that the ________ are managed

the symptoms are managed

_______________ in psychology involves choosing the best theoretical intervention to use in psychotherapy.

Evidence-based practice

Cultural Formulation

includes the clinician's assessment of the client's degree of identification with the culture of origin, the culture's beliefs about psychological disorders, the ways in which the culture interprets particular events, and the cultural supports available to the client

Psychological Assessments

procedure in which a clinicians provides a forma; evaluation of an individual's cognitive, personality, and psychosocial functioning

Structured interview

Consists of a standard series of questions with predetermined wording and order

Unstructured Interview

Involves a series of open-ended questions
Followed up with additional questions

Mental Status Examination

A method of objectively assessing a client's behavior and functioning in a number of spheres with particular attention to the symptoms associated with psychological disturbance

**Assess a client's current state of mind

Mini-Mental State Examination

structured tool that clinicians use as a brief screening device to assess neurocognitive disorders. If a client scores below a certain cutoff, the clinicians then continues to more through testing to determine cognitive impairments

Intelligence Testing

a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with others using numerical scores

Behavioral Assessment

Measuring, observing, and systematically evaluating (rather than inferring) the client's thoughts, feelings, and behavior in the actual problem situation or context.

Target behaviours

Behaviours that are the primary problems of concern.

Standardization in psychological testing

A given score on the test should have a meaning that is clearly different from another score.

The same scoring procedures should be used for each person taking a test.

The same instructions should be given each time a test is taken.

Types of psychological assessment

Employment assessment
Forensic evaluation
Diagnostic assessment

The ______ of a test indicates the consistency of the scores it produces

reliability

A client takes an MMPI-2 test in January and then takes the same test again in March. The scores each time are quite similar. This illustrates the concept of ______

RELIABILITY

Unstructured clinical interview

It is the least formal version of the clinical interview.

The client's body language is usually observed.

It consists of a series of open-ended questions.

A clinical interview that guides clinicians each step of the way and is designed specifically to assess DSM-5 symptoms is the ________.

SCID-5-CV.

Advantage of structured interview

It is less subject to variation.

There are alternate versions for clinical and research purposes.

Anyone with proper training can administer it.

Wechsler Intelligence Scales

The scales were originally developed in 1939 and published in 1955.

These tests were originally developed for use in clinical settings.

There is an adult version, a version for children, and a version for preschoolers

What is tested during a mental status examination

Perception, judgment and thought processes

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for preschoolers is the ____________

WPPSI-III

advantage of a self report inventory

it is easy to administer and score, and so a large number of people can take it efficiently.

MMPI-2

It is a personality inventory.
It was originally published in 1943.
It is a popular self-report inventory.

The three _________ scales of the MMPI attempt to guard against people feigning exceptional psychological health or illness.

validity

The MMPI-2 is a popular self-report inventory that has ____ true-false statements that describe a person's thoughts, behaviors, feelings, and attitudes.

567

The MMPI scales which correspond to major diagnostic categories are called the _________ scales

clinical

The newest version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is the ____________

MMPI-2-RF.

The PAI consists of ___ items organized into ___ scales

344/11

The SCL-90-R produces ___ overall symptom scales

9

The MMPI-2-RF has____ items, and offers scores for overall emotional, cognitive, and behavioral functioning.

338

advantages of the Personality Assessment Inventory

It can be used with clients who may not have the reading skills necessary to complete the MMPI.
Its validity scale is calculated independently of any content scales.
It can be used with clients who may not have the language skills necessary to complete the MMPI.

NEO Personality Inventory

It is less oriented to clinical use.

It has 240 items that measure five personality dimensions.

It is designed for both a test-taker and people who know the test-taker.

In behavioral observation, an event that precedes the behavior that is being focused on is referred to as the __________

antecedent

When utilizing in vivo observation, clinicians record behavior in __________

a natural context.

Events that follow a behavior are called ____________

behavior consequence

Barnum Effect:

Named about circus owner P.T Barnum

The tendency for clinicians unintentionally to make generic and vague statements about their clients that do not characterize the individual

Most likely to encounter these in a horoscope or fortune cookie

Regarding the study of abnormal behavior, the __________ domain includes particular experiences within a person's life.

psychological

Who was considered the founder of American psychiatry?

Benjamin Rush

The basic premise of experimental design is that it can

determine whether one variable influences another variable

The first modern scientifically based classification system for abnormal behavior was developed by

Emil Kraepelin.

In medication studies, a(n) _______ placebo is one that does not resemble or lead to the same side effects as the actual medication being given to the treatment group.

inert

Which key feature establishes a foundation for evidence-based treatment?

A randomized controlled trial

Clinical significance is best understood as

a behavior that involves an impairment that a clinician can observe.

The Pathology and Therapy of Mental Disorders was written by ______, who proposed that psychological disorders were the result of neuropathologies.

Wilhelm Greisinger

Which approach is considered the gold standard in psychological research?

Randomized controlled trial (RCT)

Mr. Frank, a 68-year-old veteran, is no longer able to handle his finances, manage his medications, or schedule his own appointments. He arrived late to session, and his hygiene was poor. His behavioral impairment, per observation of his therapist, meets criteria for

clinical significance.

The ______ movement was a direct result of the work done by Dorthea Dix, who felt that merely treating people well was sufficient to treat mental illness

mental hygiene

Mental Hygiene Movement Founder

Dorthea Dix

Which of the following improvements to the treatment of the mentally ill did Benjamin Rush advocate?

Giving patients occupational therapy.
Placing psychiatric patients in their own ward.
Prohibiting patients being viewed for entertainment purposes.

______ was a schoolteacher from Massachusetts who started a campaign to build more public mental health hospitals.
Multiple choice question.

Dorothea Dix

Dr. Williams wishes to conduct a study about schizophrenia. Because he can't just assign a group of participants to the schizophrenia study if they have not been diagnosed with the disorder, he will be conducting a

quasi-experiment.

The basic premise of experimental design is that it can

determine whether one variable influences another variable.

Positive early childhood experiences, including proper nutrition, adequate health care, and loving care givers, can serve as early risk_________ factors against mental health disorders

protective

One aspect of doing research about abnormal behavior is that we cannot truly have

an independent variable.

In medieval Europe, people with abnormal behaviors were often felt to be possessed by evil spirits. A common method of treatment was ______, a form of physical and mental torture conducted by priests and designed to eliminate the spirits from the afflicted person's body.

exorcism

The ______ has a strong developmental viewpoint -- individuals changing over time -- when it comes to the causes of abnormal behavior.

biopsychosocial perspective

During the Middle Ages, the view that the mentally ill were possessed by evil spirits was offered in the book ______________

the book Malleus Maleficarum.

Like many other ideas of how to treat and care for people with mental illnesses, ______ often failed to meet early expectations, mostly because of a lack of funds and planning.

the deinstitutionalization movement

placebo condition

condition in an experiment in which participants receive a treatment similar to the experimental treatment, but lacking the key feature of the treatment of interest

double-blind experiment

an experiment in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know which participants received which treatment

quasi-experiment

An experiment in which investigators make use of control and experimental groups that already exist in the world at large. Also called a mixed design.

In prehistoric times, a common practice to cure people of mental illnesses was to bore a hole in their skulls to allow evil spirits to escape. This is called

trephining.

The immediate goal of treating clients in a _____ situation is to ensure that the symptoms are managed, particularly if the clients are a risk to themselves or others.

crisis

True or false: The DSM-5 uses a multiaxial system to characterize individuals in a multidimensional way.

fasle

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