Psych Notes
Psychological disorders - disorders reflecting abnormalities of the mind (variation from the cultural standard)
Medical Student Disease - diagnosing yourself with every possible illness
How many people develop a psych disorder? - 4/10
What are psychological disorder symptoms from? - internal dysfunction (biological, psychological)
Medical model - the conceptualization of psychological abnormalities as diseases that, like biological diseases, have symptoms, causes and possible cures
3 parts to the medical model? - diagnosis, symptoms, possible cures
Do you need to know cause to treat it? - No!
Intervention-causation fallacy - the assumption that if a treatment is effective, it must address the cause of the problem
Intervention-causation fallacy example - you have sleepless nights because of worrying about a loved one, but once you take sleeping pills, you can sleep. Your insomnia could incorrectly be attributed to your lack of sleeping pills
DSM-IV-TR - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: classification system describing diagnostic criteria, symptoms, ways to distinguish one disorder from another; helps clinicians communicate and target treatment
7 things DSM-IV-TR give: - - Most common symptoms
- Typical age of onset
- Predisposing factors
- Course of disorder
- Prevalence of disorders
- Sex ratio
- Cultural issues
Five Axes - definition - give you five considerations to be taken account when you are diagnosing people → to give you a "feel" for a patient
What are the five axes? - - Principle disorder (depression)
- Personality disorder, developmental disorder (mental retardation, learning, disability)
- Medical problems (diabetes)
- Psychological stressors (unemployed)
- Global assessment of overall functioning (GAF score is 0-100) → 60 is someone you'd see; one number way to describe severity of how the disorder is impacting someone's life
Comorbidity - the co-occurrence of two or more disorders in a single individual
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Medical Student Disease - diagnosing yourself with every possible illness
How many people develop a psych disorder? - 4/10
What are psychological disorder symptoms from? - internal dysfunction (biological, psychological)
Medical model - the conceptualization of psychological abnormalities as diseases that, like biological diseases, have symptoms, causes and possible cures
3 parts to the medical model? - diagnosis, symptoms, possible cures
Do you need to know cause to treat it? - No!
Intervention-causation fallacy - the assumption that if a treatment is effective, it must address the cause of the problem
Intervention-causation fallacy example - you have sleepless nights because of worrying about a loved one, but once you take sleeping pills, you can sleep. Your insomnia could incorrectly be attributed to your lack of sleeping pills
DSM-IV-TR - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: classification system describing diagnostic criteria, symptoms, ways to distinguish one disorder from another; helps clinicians communicate and target treatment
7 things DSM-IV-TR give: - - Most common symptoms
- Typical age of onset
- Predisposing factors
- Course of disorder
- Prevalence of disorders
- Sex ratio
- Cultural issues
Five Axes - definition - give you five considerations to be taken account when you are diagnosing people → to give you a "feel" for a patient
What are the five axes? - - Principle disorder (depression)
- Personality disorder, developmental disorder (mental retardation, learning, disability)
- Medical problems (diabetes)
- Psychological stressors (unemployed)
- Global assessment of overall functioning (GAF score is 0-100) → 60 is someone you'd see; one number way to describe severity of how the disorder is impacting someone's life
Comorbidity - the co-occurrence of two or more disorders in a single individual
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