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Flashcards by Riya Vaidya, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Riya Vaidya
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| Question | Answer |
| What is statistically abnormal? | Psycho metric approach. You will have a measure of a problem and will give out this scale to a population. everyone in that population will score differently. When someone with a potential health problem a clinician can get the person to fill out the scale and look at the score they give an compare it to the scores that are above or below 95% of the population (top 5 and bottom 5% of the population) indicating whether what they say they are feeling is abnormal or not. |
| Departure from social norms? | E.g. Talking to dead ancestors is normal in some cultures, so if this in normal within their culture they are nromal |
| Unusual experiences | The experience will be classified as unusual if it is rare within their culture or communities that they belong to. |
| Personal Distress/Discomfort | If there is Personal Distress/Discomfort for the individual at an extreme level ordistress or people around that person then it would be considered as abnormal. |
| What are the two ways that you can treat someone that is considered abnormal? | Psychological approach and biological approach. |
| Who is the Bio-medical treatment usually conducted by? | Psychiatrists |
| Who looks at the Psychological treatment? | Clinical psychology, psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapists. |
| What is the bio-medical treatment and what is its main focus? | Mental illness as a disease, biologically different within the individual. Focus is on doing something to change some aspect of the physical function. Using a drug to alterthe function of the neuro-transmitter systems. Also medication is used to trat patients. |
| What are the different types of therapy under Psychological treatment? | Psychodymanic Therapy Behavioural Therapy Cognitive Therapy Humanistic Therapy Eclectic Therapy |
| What is Psychodymanic/Psychoanalytic treatment and who invented it? | It is driven by unconscious factors and is due to early life conflicts. E.g. a child developing an unconscious idea that they are unlovable making it difficult to be in intimate relationships. Freud. |
| What is the goal for the therapist and patient in this situation? | To go back into the past and try and uncover what there unconsious troubles are and how they relate to their current symptoms. Time consuming. |
| What is behavioural treatment? | Behaviours continue because they are being paired with something that is happening in the environment. Conditioning - behviours are learnt because of what is happening in the environment. |
| How does the treatment for behavioural therapy work? | Exposure or reinforcement or ignoring or punishing in regards to particular environments. E.g. Naughty child temper tantrum - behavioural approach will look at what is happening in the environment to reinforcing the child's behaviour. Mother may give child a toy to make them stop, to improve the situation you would make the mother reinforce the child when they are well behaved instead of when they have tantrums. |
| What is the goal of the behavioural treatment? | To extinguish the non productive or upsetting behaviours, Reinforce desirable behaviours. |
| What is the focus of cognitive treatment? | Focus is on HOW and WHAT we think. How you interpret a situation (thought) influences. How someones thoughts of the environment effects the way they feel. How you feel about the situation. Thoughts à Emotions |
| What is the main goal of cognitive treatment? | To identify what the meladaptive thoughts are (the thoughts causing distress) and to evaluate these thoughts and challenge them too to see whether it is an accurate way to be interpreting the situation and replace these thoughts with more adaptive thoughts. |
| What is the focus of humanistic treatment? | What makes an indvidual feel good about themselves? Focus is on teaching the patient to seek fulfilment and reach their potential. |
| What is the focus of the Eclectic treatment? | Therapist selects techniques from various types of therapy to design a treatment that best suits the individual. With different theraputic approaches evidence shows that some approaches are more effective for certain problems than others. |
| What is the goal of the Eclectic treatment? | Tailoring techniques to suit the patients needs. Typically with behavioural approaches and cognitive approaches used the most in NZ. |
| What are the different forms of therapy? | Forms of therapy l Therapy can be provided in many forms: – Individual – Couple – Family – Group |
| What is individual therapy? | Client and therapist working one on one. Problems occur within various environments. May include partners mum, dad, sister. |
| What is family therapy? | Family therapy is mostly used with children as parents play a huge role in children's lives. Educating parents about what is happening and how they can help their child. Tey can do certain things to alter teh environment to assist with the theraputic process. |
| What are the benefits of group therapy? | People get a sense of social support.They'll feel less like an outsider. Cost effective. A group of people expresses the problems they have within a social group. |
| It is important that therapies have evidence base behind them supporting it. What does this mean? | Therapies have been administered to individuals and have been compared to other treatments. Also you want to see therapies that change over time and have an effect to groups of different people. |
| Why are therapies administered? | Because professionals know that there is evidence behind the therapy to actually have an effect. |
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